Carlo Ancelotti

Carlo Ancelotti

Personal information
Full name	Carlo Ancelotti
Date of birth	June 10, 1959 (1959-06-10) (age 51)
Place of birth	Reggiolo, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Midfield
Club information
Current club	Chelsea (manager)
Youth career
	Parma
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1976–1979	Parma	55	(13)
1979–1987	Roma	171	(12)
1987–1992	Milan	112	(10)
Total		338	(35)
National team
1980	Italy U-21	3	(0)
1981–1991	Italy[1]	17	(1)
Teams managed
1995–1996	Reggiana
1996–1998	Parma
1999–2001	Juventus
2001–2009	Milan
2009–	Chelsea
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Carlo Ancelotti (born 10 June 1959 in Reggiolo, Reggio Emilia) is a retired Italian footballer and current manager of Chelsea.^[2]

Nicknamed Carletto, he played as a midfielder and had a successful career with Milan, with whom he won two Scudettos and two European Cups in a five-year period. He was capped 26 times and scored one goal for the Italian national team and appeared at the 1986 and 1990 World Cups.

After spells as manager of Reggiana, Parma and Juventus, Ancelotti was appointed Milan manager in 2001. He won the Scudetto in 2004, the Champions League in 2003 and 2007 and the Coppa Italia in 2003. They were also Serie A and Champions League runner-ups in 2005. He is one of six men to have won the European Cup as player and manager. In May 2009 he was appointed Chelsea manager and in his first season led them to a historic Premier League and FA Cup Double. He became only the second non-British manager to win the double, the other being Arsène Wenger.

Contents 1 Club career 2 International career 3 Managerial career 3.1 Reggiana 3.2 Parma 3.3 Juventus 3.4 Milan 3.5 Chelsea 3.6 Future plans 4 Personal life 5 Career statistics 5.1 Manager 6 Honours 6.1 Player 6.2 Manager 6.3 Individual 7 References 8 External links

Club career

Ancelotti began his career in 1974 with Parma. In 1979, he transferred to Roma, as captain and midfielder, where he won the Italian championship in 1983, the Coppa Italia four times and helped Roma to reach the European Cup final in 1984. From 1987 until 1992, he played for Milan, and was part of the Milan squad that won consecutive European Cups in 1989 and 1990. During this time, Milan played with one of their finest teams ever assembled in that decade, with Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi, Mauro Tassotti and Alessandro Costacurta as defenders, Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit and Roberto Donadoni as midfielder and Marco van Basten as strikers. His finest moment with Milan was when he received a pass from Ruud Gullit, dribbled around two Madrid players, and netted a powerful long-range shot during the Rossoneri's 5–0 thrashing of Real Madrid in the 1989 European Cup semi-finals. He went on to play all 90 minutes in Milan's 4–0 dismantling of Steaua Bucureşti in the final.

International career

Ancelotti made his debut and scored his first and only goal on 6 January 1981, in a one-off tournament against Netherlands, which ended in a 1–1 draw. He was very likely to be capped for the 1982 World Cup campaign, but a dramatic knee injury forced him away for several months. He also went on to appear in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups, along with Roberto Donadoni, Roberto Mancini and Paolo Maldini. Ancelotti made a total of 26 performances, scoring one goal for Italy, before he announced his retirement from international football in 1991.

Managerial career

A student at Coverciano, where he penned a research article entitled "Il Futuro del Calcio: Piu Dinamicita".^[3]

Reggiana

Ancelotti began his managerial career with Reggiana in 1995, where Reggiana achieved promotion to Serie A. However, he left the following year for Parma.

Parma

In 1996, Ancelotti was appointed manager of Parma, which included Gianluigi Buffon and Villiam Vecchi. Parma finished 2nd in the 1996–97 season, which guranteed them a Champions League place. The following season, Ancelotti guided them to a fifth place, qualifying for the UEFA Cup.

Juventus

In 1998, he was appointed Juventus manager, succeeding Marcello Lippi at Juventus the next season. Ancelotti's season began promising, winning the Intertoto Cup by beating Rennes 4–2 on aggregate. However, the following season, he went trophyless, finishing runner-up twice in Serie A.

Milan

Ancelotti was appointed Milan manager in 2001, after Fatih Terim was sacked, due to poor results. He was inheriting another recently trophyless team in Milan, as the Rossoneri had floundered domestically and in Europe since their last Scudetto victory in 1999. In his first full season, Ancelotti soon had Milan back in European competition, leading them to the semi-finals of the 2001–02 UEFA Cup, in which Milan finished third.

The following season, Ancelotti, who was heavily criticized by Silvio Berlusconi, due to his defensive tactics, was able to adopt a creative play in Milan while making several roster changes. He made Dida, still maligned for his 2000–01 Champions League howler against Leeds United, his new starting goalkeeper barely a month into the 2002–03 season, while converting budding attacking midfielder Andrea Pirlo to a defensive playmaker and playing him behind Rui Costa. At the same time, Filippo Inzaghi and Andriy Shevchenko were dominant and dynamic. Milan won the 2003 Champions League, beating Juventus 3–2 on penalties at Old Trafford and the Coppa Italia and took home the Scudetto in 2004.

Under Ancelotti's reign, Milan were also back-to-back Serie A runners-up to Juventus in 2004–05 and 2005–06 (both Scudetti were later wiped from the record books due to Juventus' involvement in the Calciopoli scandal), and lost the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final to Liverpool losing 3–2 on penalties after leading 3–0 at halftime. Two years later, though, Milan avenged their defeat to Liverpool with a 2–1 win at the Olympic Stadium in Athens on 23 May 2007, leading to Ancelotti's second Champions League trophy as Milan coach and his fourth title overall, having also won it twice as a Milan player in 1989 and 1990. Ancelotti announced his resignation from Milan less than an hour following their 2–0 victory over Fiorentina on 31 May 2009, after the club terminated his contract by mutual consent with one year remaining.

Chelsea

He was confirmed as the new Chelsea manager after agreeing to a three-year contract worth £9 million. This contract made him the highest earning manager in the world. ^[4] Ancelotti, succeeding temporary replacement Guus Hiddink, became the club's fourth permanent manager in 21 months, following José Mourinho, Avram Grant, and Luiz Felipe Scolari. He is also the third Italian to manage Chelsea, after Gianluca Vialli and Claudio Ranieri.

On 9 August 2009, Ancelotti won his first trophy as Chelsea manager, the Community Shield, beating Manchester United on penalties, following a 2–2 draw. His first Premier League game in charge of the Blues ended in a 2–1 home victory over Hull City on 15 August 2009. Chelsea lost their first game under Ancelotti at the DW Stadium against Wigan Athletic on 26 September, losing 3–1. They were eliminated from the League Cup on 2 December, reaching the quarter-finals stage after a penalty shootout defeat to Blackburn Rovers after a 3–3 draw at Ewood Park. Chelsea crashed out of the Champions League on 16 March 2010 after a 1–3 aggregate loss to Internazionale, having lost both home and away, in the Round of 16 stage.

On 9 May 2010, Ancelotti led Chelsea to win the Premier League title, beating Manchester United by one point and setting scoring records. The team finished the campaign with 103 goals, becoming the first team to score more than 100 goals in the top flight of English football since Tottenham Hotspur in the 1962–63 First Division season (Tottenham finished second).^[5] Chelsea secured the title with a 8–0 victory over Wigan Athletic at Stamford Bridge.^[6] Ancelotti also became the first Italian manager to win Premier League;^[7] and only the fifth manager overall in the league's eighteen seasons.

On 15 May 2010, Ancelotti led Chelsea to win the 2009–10 FA Cup, beating Portsmouth 1–0 in the final at Wembley. This was the third time Chelsea had won the FA Cup in four years, equalling the record set by Arsenal between 2002 and 2005. This also accomplished the club's first ever domestic double within the one season.

Future plans

Ancelotti said in an October 2009 interview with sportmediaset.it. that one day he would like to return to Italy and become the manager of Roma, the only Italian club he would go to at this point in his career. Ancelotti also said that he would like to be the Italian national football team's manager after the upcoming 2010 World Cup.^[8]

After winning the 2010 FA Cup, Ancelotti stated he would like to continue managing the Blues for at least another 10 years.

Personal life

In 1983, Ancelotti married Luisa Gibellini, with whom he had two children: a daughter, Katia, and a son, Davide, who also played in the Milan youth team and later joined Borgomanero in June 2008.^[9] In 2008, Carlo Ancelotti confirmed in an interview that he had broken up with his wife of 25 years.^[9]

In May 2009, Ancelotti's autobiography, Preferisco la Coppa ("I Prefer the Cup", with a word-play by Ancelotti on the Italian word "coppa" that stands both for "cup" and a type of cured cold pork meat cut), was published, with all proceeds from sales of the book going to the Fondazione Stefano Borgonovo for the funding of research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[10]

Career statistics

Club performance			League		Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Italy			League		Coppa Italia		Total
1976–77	Parma	Serie C	1	0
1977–78			21	8
1978–79		Serie C1	33	5
1979–80	Roma	Serie A	27	3
1980–81			29	2
1981–82			5	0
1982–83			23	2
1983–84			9	0
1984–85			22	3
1985–86			29	0
1986–87			27	2
1987–88	Milan	Serie A	27	2
1988–89			28	2
1989–90			24	3
1990–91			21	1
1991–92			12	2
Total	Italy		338	35
Career total			338	35

Manager

^[11][12]

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Reggiana		1995	1996	&000000000000003800000038	&000000000000001600000016	&000000000000001300000013	&00000000000000090000009	&000000000000004210999942.11
Parma		1996	1998	&0000000000000102000000102	&000000000000004800000048	&000000000000003100000031	&000000000000002300000023	&000000000000004706000047.06
Juventus		1999	2001	&0000000000000114000000114	&000000000000006300000063	&000000000000001800000018	&000000000000003300000033	&000000000000005525999955.26
Milan		6 November 2001	31 May 2009	&0000000000000413000000413	&0000000000000234000000234	&0000000000000100000000100	&000000000000007900000079	&000000000000005665999956.66
Chelsea		1 July 2009	Present	&000000000000005800000058	&000000000000004200000042	&00000000000000080000008	&00000000000000080000008	&000000000000007240999972.41
Total				&0000000000000725000000725	&0000000000000403000000403	&0000000000000170000000170	&0000000000000152000000152	&000000000000005559000055.59

28 August 2010

Honours

Player

Roma

• Serie A: 1
  

1983

• Coppa Italia: 4
  

1980, 1981, 1984, 1986

Milan

• Serie A: 2
  

1988, 1992

• Italian Supercup: 1
  

1988

• European Cup: 2
  

1989, 1990

• UEFA Super Cup: 2
  

1989, 1990

• Intercontinental Cup: 2
  

1989, 1990

Manager

Juventus

• Intertoto Cup: 1
  

1999

Milan

• Coppa Italia: 1
  

2003

• Serie A: 1
  

2004

• Supercoppa Italiana: 1
  

2004

• UEFA Champions League: 2
  

2003, 2007

• UEFA Super Cup: 2
  

2003, 2007

• FIFA Club World Cup: 1
  

2007

Chelsea

• Premier League: 1
  

2009–10

• FA Cup: 1
  

2010

• Community Shield: 1
  

2009

Individual

• Serie A coach of the Year: 2001, 2004
• Albo Panchina d'Oro: 2002-03, 2003-04
• UEFA Manager of the Year: 2002-03
• World Soccer Magazine Manager of the Year: 2003
• The World's best Club Coach 2007
• Premier League Manager of the Month : November 2009
• UEFA Champions League Manager of the Year: 2002–03

References

External links

• Carlo Ancelotti management career stats at Soccerbase
• National Football Teams Player Profile - Carlo Ancelotti at www.national-football-teams.com

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