Carlo Ancelotti, transparent before the Champions League final: he confessed one of the worst mistakes of his career as coach

However, his coaching career is not perfect, like everything, and he has had many mistakes. In an interview with The Times, Carlo Ancelotti He was transparent and remembered what was one of his worst mistakes as a coach.

The Italian recalled his beginnings as a coach in Italy, where he had as a teacher Arrigo Sacchi a football revolutionary, but he learned something that over time became a defect and he had to correct it after a bad experience with the former 90s star Roberto Baggio.

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“When I started, it wasn’t like that,” says Ancelotti when asked if he always had that nerve and wrist to manage his teams. “I had a system that I learned at Arrigo Sacchi’s AC Milan. It was 4-4-2. And that’s why I refused to have Roberto Baggio at Parma because I wanted to play with number 10. I said: ‘No, I don’t play with number 10’. He was one of the best players in the world at that time and I refused to have him because I only wanted to play with two forwards,” he said somewhat nostalgically.

Ancelotti He acknowledged that it was a mistake: “Today I would tell him: ‘Baggio, come to Parma and we will fix the situation’. Instead I told him: ‘Listen, Roberto, there is no room for you,’ and he went to Bologna. It was a mistake and I tried to change my idea when I went to Juventus. I had Zidane and he was number 10. Should I put him on the right or the left? Impossible”.

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And added to The Times: “Zidane is the most important player on my team and he has to be number 10 and I have to adapt. From there I always took into account the characteristics of the players to build the system.”

Carlo Anceloti He revealed that not only did he change his module and adapt, but also his treatment towards his players, which is why he has a very good feeling with several of the Real Madrid youngsters.

“There was a moment at Juventus when Zidane arrived late and we were on the bus waiting to leave. I told the driver: ‘No more, let’s go’, but he was afraid and didn’t move, and then Paolo Montero got off the bus to talk to me. I said, ‘Let’s go and then we’ll talk.’ But he said: ‘You do not get it. Without Zizou we won’t get anywhere’”.

“That’s when you think: ‘Okay, I need to hear this.’ So we wait.“Do you think they listen to you more if you shout?… No, the more you shout, the less they listen to you,” The Italian added that this Saturday he will fight in his sixth Champions League final.

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