Carlo Ancelotti

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Carlo Ancelotti
Personal information
Full name	Carlo Ancelotti
Date of birth	June 10, 1959 (1959-06-10) (age 49)
Place of birth	Reggiolo, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Manager (former midfielder)
Club information
Current club	A.C. Milan
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1976–1979 1979–1987 1987–1992	Parma A.C. A.S. Roma A.C. Milan	055 0(13) 171 0(12) 112 0(10)
National team
1981–1991	Italy	26 (1)
Teams managed
1995–1996 1996–1999 1999–2001 2001–	A.C. Reggiana 1919 Parma F.C. Juventus A.C. Milan
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Carlo Ancelotti (born June 10, 1959 in Reggiolo) is a former footballer and the current manager of AC Milan. He is the longest-tenured manager in Serie A, having been with Milan since November 2001. With numerous titles, notably two UEFA Champions League trophies and the prestigious Scudetto, won under his reign, he is arguably one of the most successful Rossoneri coaches of all time.

On September 11, 2007, Ancelotti was named the 2007 ESM European Coach of the Year. ^[1]

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Player stats 3 Coaching career 4 Honours 4.1 As player 4.2 As manager 4.3 Individual 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing career

As a player, "Carletto," as he was nicknamed, appeared 26 times for Italy, and played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, where he was a teammate of former Internazionale coach Roberto Mancini.

He started his club career in 1976 with Parma A.C.. In 1979, he transferred to AS Roma, as captain and midfielder, where he won the Italian championship (1983) and 4 times the Italian Cup. From 1987 until 1992 he played for A.C. Milan, and was part of the Milan squad that won consecutive European Cups in 1989 and 1990. 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 semifinals. He went on to play all 90 minutes in Milan's 4-0 defeat of Steaua Bucharest in the final.

[edit] Player stats

Season	Team	Championship
		League	Apps	Goals
1976/77	Parma A.C.	Serie C	1	0
1977/78		Serie C	21	8
1978/79		Serie C1	33	5
Total Parma			55	13
1979/80	A.S. Roma	Serie A	27	3
1980/81		Serie A	29	2
1981/82		Serie A	5	0
1982/83		Serie A	23	2
1983/84		Serie A	9	0
1984/85		Serie A	22	3
1985/86		Serie A	29	0
1986/87		Serie A	27	2
Total Roma			171	12
1987/88	A.C. Milan	Serie A	27	2
1988/89		Serie A	28	2
1989/90		Serie A	24	3
1990/91		Serie A	21	1
1991/92		Serie A	12	2
Total Milan			112	10
Total career			338	35

[edit] Coaching career

Ancelotti's first coaching job was with Serie B squad A.C. Reggiana 1919 in 1995. In his only year with the club, Reggiana earned promotion to Serie A. Ancelotti then returned to Parma - which included upstart goalkeeper Gigi Buffon and current Milan goalkeeping trainer Villiam Vecchi - in 1996, and won the 1998-99 UEFA Cup. He became the successor of Marcello Lippi at Juventus the next season, but went trophyless during his two-year stint, finishing runner-up twice in Serie A. That all changed when he went to AC Milan in 2001 as a replacement for the fired Fatih Terim.

He was inheriting another recently trophyless team in Milan, as the Rossoneri had foundered 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 club president 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 Champions League howler against Leeds United, his new starting goalkeeper barely a month into the 2002-03 campaign, while converting budding attacking midfielder Andrea Pirlo to a defensive playmaker and playing him behind Manuel Rui Costa. At the same time, the striking partners of Filippo Inzaghi and Andriy Shevchenko were dominant and dynamic. Milan won the Champions League, beating Ancelotti's old team, 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 05-06 (both Scudetti were later wiped from the record books due to Juventus' involvement in the Calciopoli scandal), and lost the 2005 CL final in horrific fashion to Liverpool F.C., in which Milan lost 3-2 on penalties after blowing a 3-0 halftime lead. Two years later, though, Milan avenged their defeat to Liverpool with a 2-1 win at the Olympic Stadium in Athens on May 23, 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. On May 30, Ancelotti signed a two-year contract extension, keeping him at Milan until 2010. Ancelotti is only the fifth coach to win the Champions League as both a player and a coach, along with Miguel Muñoz (Real Madrid player 1956, 1957, Real Madrid coach 1960, 1966); Giovanni Trapattoni (AC Milan player 1963, 1969, Juventus coach 1985); Johan Cruyff (AFC Ajax player 1971-73, FC Barcelona coach 1992) and former Milan teammate Frank Rijkaard (AC Milan player 1989, 1990, Ajax player 1995, FC Barcelona coach 2006). He also ranks second in number of Milan matches coached with 322, trailing Nereo Rocco (459). Despite rumours in early June 2008 that he was about to sign a contract as Manager of Premier League club Chelsea, statements from Ancelloti and AC Milan appear to have ruled out such a move. ^[2] On June 8th a second attempt to lure Ancelotti to Chelsea was also a failure with Carlo stating he would only leave Milan to coach Roma, the team he captained during his playing career. ^[3]

[edit] Honours

[edit] As player

• Coppa Italia: 4

A.S. Roma: 1979/1980, 1980/1981, 1983/1984, 1985/1986

• Serie A: 3

A.S. Roma: 1982/1983

A.C. Milan: 1987/1988, 1991/1992

• Italian Supercup: 1

A.C. Milan: 1988

• UEFA Champions League: 2

A.C. Milan: 1988/1989, 1989/1990

• UEFA Super Cup: 2

A.C. Milan: 1989, 1990

• Intercontinental Cup: 2

A.C. Milan: 1989, 1990

[edit] As manager

• UEFA Cup: 1

Parma: 1998/1999

• Intertoto Cup: 1

Juventus: 1999

• Coppa Italia: 1

A.C. Milan: 2002/2003

• Serie A: 1

A.C. Milan: 2003/2004

• Italian Supercup: 1

A.C. Milan: 2004

• Champions League: 2

A.C. Milan: 2002/2003, 2006/2007

• UEFA Supercup: 2

A.C. Milan: 2003, 2007

• FIFA Club World Cup: 1

A.C. Milan: 2007

[edit] Individual

• Oscar del calcio: 2

Serie A Coach of the Year: 2001, 2004

• ESM: 1

European Coach of the Year: 2007

• Order of Merit of the Republic

Knight ^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Website (Italian)
• Carlo Ancelotti management career stats at Soccerbase
• Carlo Ancelotti at National Football Teams

Awards
Preceded by Sven-Göran Eriksson	Serie A Coach of the Year 2001	Succeeded by Luigi Del Neri
Preceded by Marcello Lippi	Serie A Coach of the Year 2004	Succeeded by Fabio Capello
Sporting positions
Preceded by Fatih Terim	A.C. Milan Manager 2001-	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Agostino Di Bartolomei	AS Roma Captain 1984-1987	Succeeded by Giuseppe Giannini
Preceded by Marcello Lippi	Serie A Winning Coach 2003-04	Succeeded by abolished
Preceded by Pietro Carmignani	Coppa Italia Winning Coach 2002-03	Succeeded by Roberto Mancini
Preceded by Marcello Lippi	Supercoppa Italiana Winning Coach 2004	Succeeded by Roberto Mancini
Preceded by Vicente Del Bosque	UEFA Champions League Winning Coach 2002-03	Succeeded by José Mourinho
Preceded by Frank Rijkaard	UEFA Champions League Winning Coach 2006-07	Succeeded by Sir Alex Ferguson
Preceded by Vicente Del Bosque	UEFA Super Cup Winning Coach 2003	Succeeded by Claudio Ranieri
Preceded by Juande Ramos	UEFA Super Cup Winning Coach 2007	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Abel Braga	FIFA Club World Cup Winning Coach 2007	Succeeded by Incumbent

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