He Real Madrid He will say goodbye this Saturday (16.15 hours), in the visit of the Royal Society to Bernabéu, to the coach who has won the most titles of its history (15). Carlo Ancelotti He will say goodbye for the second time to the club to which eternal love has sworn, before putting immediate heading to his following challenge: to be the first foreign coach in the history of Brazil.
He Santiago Bernabéu will provide a farewell with all honors to the coach who, together with Zinedine Zidanemore Europe's glasses have given him. One of them, that of 2014, also lifted it as a player Xabi Alonsowho will become his successor, officially debuting in three weeks at the Club World Cup.
Real Madrid, healing the wounds of an epilogue of pain and frustration, will remember 'Carletto ' Like a quiet gentleman, who sublimated the art of handling the left hand. With many clearer than dark, especially in a second stage that leaves with a legacy of Two double-champions league and the transition from Madrid of Cristiano to Mbappé.
Ancelotti And Real Madrid had separated their paths in 2015, after an initial two -year stage marked by the tenth, the Champions won in Lisbon to Atlético with the Archifamous goal of Ramos. Six years later, after the second exit of Zidane, Florentino Pérez and José Ángel Sánchez They did not find a coach who fit their plans.
‘Carletto', Then in Everton, he called the second to, in theory, ask him about the option of getting a loan player. Actually, he was letting himself be wanted. “Do you want to go back? Can you return?” He told him the right hand of Florentino. In hours, Everton approved the operation and Ancelotti He returned to the bench of Bernabéu.
That first season, the 2021-22, will be remembered forever in Real Madrid as of the Champions of the climbs. The 14th European Cup of Real Madrid was a before and after in the extreme survival account that has been creating the white club in this competition.
He PSGhe Chelsea and the Manchester City They thought they had eliminated Madrid, but the whites, led by a Benzema superlative, they always rose from the canvas and ended up winning the 'orejona' defeating the Liverpool In the final. In League, Barça in which Xavi replaced to Koeman In the middle of the course he was never rival, ending 13 points from the white champion.
The second season of the second cycle of Ancelotti marked a pattern that was going to be repeated in the final biennium: (almost) all (almost) nothing. The victory in The Cup final against Osasuna (After 0-4 at the Camp Nou in the semifinals)and the absence of convincing alternatives, allowed Ancelotti to continue with a Madrid that in Champions was used by Manchester City and in the League was clearly surpassed by Barça de Xavi.
The key night of that league was the one that will be remembered forever as the classic of the of Kessi. He passed in the blink of the white victory, with A goal canceled to Marco Asensioto a Barca triumph (2-1). Barça's six virtual points of blow to 12 in the absence of as many days. An already unabordable wall for Ancelotti players.
Kessié celebrates the goal that would rise on 2-1 on the score of the Spotify Camp Nou classic of March 19, 2023 and on the league for Barça de Xavi. / Jordi Cotrina
The third season of Ancelotti started with the shock of the frightened of Benzema To Saudi Arabia. The Italian insisted on hiring a first level ram, with Harry Kane in the market, but the plan of Florentino Pérez It was waiting for another year to Mbappé And, until then, pull with what there was.
Between 'what there was' was already Bellinghamthen an interior with star makers. Ancelotti He made the need virtue and, given the lack of a striker, he transformed the English into an insatiable arrival. With their goals at the beginning and those of Vinicius In the second half of the season he built a Madrid league champion for crushing and Champions with greater suspense.
The fourth year also started with an unexpected exit, that of a Toni kroos that football left after which was surely the best season of his career. It came to the end Kylian Mbappéthe icing on the cake, yes, but the prayers of Ancelotti For the club to incorporate a creative profile in the center of the field they were not heard.
Nor did he flinch Florentino before the serious and numerous injuries that were happening on the defensive plot. All this, together with the superpoblation of repeated chromes in attack (Mbappé, viniicus and rodrygo) unbalanced the team. AND 'Carletto ' He was no longer able to square the circle.
As surprising, last summer there were voices in Real Madrid that demanded a change of cycle on the bench. The double did not end up hiding certain symptoms of project depletion, nor the desired arrival of Kylian Mbappé To the team. The withdrawal of Toni kroos and the cataract of injuries, for which it was not wanted to look for solutions in the market.
The night he ended up sentencing Ancelotti It was the one of the quarterfinals of the Champions, against Arsenal in London. That day, Madrid fit a painful 0-3 in which perhaps the most serious was the inability to react to the blows of the Arteta block. Appealing to the miracle in the Bernabéu did not work this time and Florentino Pérez convinced that he had to raise the phone to Activate the verbal pre -agreement he had reached with Xabi Alonso.
Nothing better exemplifies Real Madrid's season disaster as its four clashes with Barça. It is not just that you have lost them all, it is that Hansi Flick's team has put 16 goalsto an average of four per game. Liguera's first leg in the Bernabéu seemed an accident, the final of the Super Cup confirmed that it was not so and the Cup final and the league return in Montjuïc certified the change of cycle.
Always communicating vessels, the hatching of Barça de Flick has exacerbated the feeling of failure of the Madrid of Ancelotti. When the Italian returned to Bernabéu, Messi left for Camp Nou. Now, his march coincides with the definitive explosion of Lamine Yamal. But it will be Xabi Alonso who has to deal with the renewed Barca threat. So far 'Carletto' came.
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