On August 31, 1987, with just a few minutes left before the transfer market closed, Milan deposited a five-year contract with Carlo Ancelotti at the headquarters of the Italian league, ending his time as a footballer. Roma, after eight seasons of ‘giallorossi’. A move that would never have taken place without Arrigo Sacchi’s insistence: “You buy Ancelotti from me and I’ll win you the Scudetto,” he told Berlusconi to convince him to sign him. The owner of Milan did not want to buy Ancelotti and without Sacchi, that would never have happened. There began Carletto’s intense bond with the Lombard club, which he faces today for the first time as Madrid coach, on matchday four of the Champions League. Berlusconi did not want to sign Ancelotti because he considered his knees were destroyed. Carlo had broken his right in 1981 and his left in 1983, two serious injuries that, at some stages, affected his performance. Ancelotti himself has confessed on some occasion that they became blocked when the temperature was cold and he needed to apply heat to prevent this from happening. “How are you, Carlo?” Berlusconi asked Ancelotti in a call from the president to the player. , just before giving Sacchi the go-ahead. “I’m perfect,” Carletto replied. There the deal was closed and the first stone of the Milan of the immortals was laid, which was how that historic Milan of Sacchi was nicknamed, champion of two European Cups consecutively (1989 and 1990), two Intercontinental Cups, two Super Cups of Europe, a Serie A and an Italian Super Cup: «He was a great coach. It changed the history of Italian football. “He focused on the defensive aspect, but he didn’t do ‘catenaccio’, but rather he put the defensive line in the center of the field,” Ancelotti explained in ‘Universo Valdano’, where he recalled that Madrid-Milan, the first leg of the 1989 semi-finals, The white team suffered 24 offsides. Ancelotti, scorer of the first of the five goals that Milan scored against the whites in the second leg of that tie, was a good midfielder. I deal with the ball, tactically intelligent, with personality and charisma. Sacchi’s extension on the grass. A coach who acted as a player. A silent leader who had his two great friends in Maldini and Baresi in a team in which Van Basten, Gullit and Rikjaard shone. Capello’s premonitionFive years as a Milanista which ended in June 1992, Capello’s first year on the Rossoneri bench. He did it after a complicated year in which not only did Albertini take away his starting status, which he never completely understood, but there were also games in which he did not even make the squad: “I didn’t understand it, but Capello told me ‘when you are a coach, you will understand’. And so it was. He said goodbye in a Milan-Verona match in which he scored two goals in just five minutes, the only time in his career that he achieved a double. It was also the last game of his career, even though he was only 33 years old. His knees said enough. Related News standard If Morata returns to the Bernabéu: from whistles with the national team to torment José Carlos Carabias After the fight at the Madrid stadium, the Milan striker left Atlético, wanted to leave the national team and spent a depression as he admittedAs soon as he hung up his boots, Ancelotti received a call from Sacchi, who after leaving Milan took charge of the Italian team. It was his first experience on the bench, as Arrigo’s assistant, with whom he was until the World Cup in the United States, in which Italy finished runners-up after losing to Brazil on penalties. Then, he managed Reggiana (1995-1996), Parma (1996-1998) and Juventus (1998-2001), his last adventure before returning to Milan, but this time with a suit and tie. He arrived with the fame of being a losing coach, especially because of the two leagues (2000 and 2001) lost with the ‘bianconeri’ team on the last day. One, due to two serious errors by Van der Sar, and another, due to a match in Perugia that ended up being a setback due to a waterspout, which suspended the match for an hour, and then they ended up losing it: «In the summer of 2001 “Ancelotti had a verbal agreement to return to coach Parma, but when he was on his way to signing that agreement, Galliani convinced him to back down and sign for Milan,” reveals Carlo Pellegatti. historic Italian journalist who for forty years has followed the daily life of Milan, a personal friend of Ancelotti and, now, a successful YouTuber. Milan had fired Fatih Terim and Berlusconi asked Galliani to bring in Ancelotti: “Why should I break my agreement with Parma?” Carletto asked Milan’s general manager. “Because Berlusconi told me that Milan needs you,” he replied. And so began Ancelotti’s time as ‘Rossonero’ coach. Seven years in which he won two Champions Leagues, a Club World Cup, two European Super Cups, a Serie A, an Italian Cup and a Super Cup for his country: «Berlusconi has been one of the great presidents in the history of football. “He was always a genius,” recalls Ancelotti, who also gave him his vote as president of Italy. Berlusconi was what Ancelotti called an amateur president. That type of leader who structured a football club like a family, which is what Carletto liked, despite the football discussions they had. Berlusconi insisted that the team should play with Kaká plus two forwards, and not just one, as Ancelotti did on many occasions: «I always had a good relationship with him, and that has given me trouble. But he has hit me when things were good, not when they were bad. He knew perfectly well how to choose the moment. “Berlusconi, at his side in 2005. He showed it after the dramatic Champions League final in 2005, in which Liverpool tied him 3-0 and ended up winning the orejona in the penalty shootout. That same night, Berlusconi went down to the locker room and told Ancelotti that the team had played very well and that he had no intention of firing him. And so it was. Two years later, in 2007, time proved Berlusconi right and Ancelotti gave him a new Champions League (the other one was won in 2003), taking revenge in the final, precisely, against Benítez’s Liverpool. That 2003 final, which they won at Old Trafford against Juventus, in the penalty shootout, holds one of the funniest anecdotes of the Ancelotti-Berlusconi relationship. In the technical talk before the match, Carletto invited Silvio to witness it in situ. It was the first and only time. Berlusconi went to the back of the room, to go unnoticed and not disturb such an intimate moment between the coaching staff and the squad. When he finished, Ancelotti approached Berlusconi and said: «What did you think? I’ve been good, right? Berlusconi responded: “You were good, but I would have done better.” , Pirlo Seedorf, Inzaghi or Nesta, it was the Milan of the ‘meravigliosi’,” Pellegatti recalls.
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