Carlo Ancelotti
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Podcast Appearances
The fact that they were not able to win the Champions League for 12 years was like an obsession for them because Real Madrid was used to win a lot of Champions League and I had the luck the first year to win the Champions League.
I think that in general, I trained a fantastic player.
It's the easiest way to be a manager, to manage a fantastic player, because they are professional, they are serious, they have personality, they are motivated.
So it's the easiest way.
You don't have to build a team around Cristiano Ronaldo.
And as I said for Zidane,
you have to put them in the more comfortable way on the pitch.
It doesn't matter.
I think that you don't have to be strict tactically with this player defensively because there are players that are more involved in the attacking phase and there are players that have to be involved more in the defensive phase.
And so, of course, they have to work together because the team is the most important part of the game, but...
strikers like Ronaldo that are able to score every single game, you don't have to give too much information defensively.
Sergio Ramos has a fantastic quality.
I think that the best quality that they have is not tactically, it's not technically, it's character.
The personality that he has and the ability that he has to motivate the people around him, like they are teammates.
Sergio Ramos in that period was important for this.
Always at the top when the game was...
important, and also at the top in the key moments of the games.
Yes, yes.
First of all, I wanted to come back to Italy.
And I had experience in Napoli.