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Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Intelligent
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Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Football
Important
Important Things
World
Most
Things
Less
The Most Important
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I'm in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Favour
Innovation
Suffer
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I spent eight years with Berlusconi, and I still have a good relationship with him.
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Good Relationship
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Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing.
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Home
Away From Home
Way
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Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.
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Messi
Team
World
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I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.
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Ends
Expecting
League
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That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.
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Good Manager
Study
Discuss
Model
Manager
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Firmino is the most decisive player because he comes to play between the lines and opens the spaces to his team-mates.
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Lines
Decisive
Opens
Spaces
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Ronaldo is a unique player for all of his talent and his professionalism. He is a player who is extraordinarily consistent.
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Cristiano Ronaldo
Player
Unique
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I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!
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Opportunity
Remember
Singers
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For me, the Premier League is full of quality, and the clubs competing at the top are the same who compete at the top of Europe every year.
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Clubs
Premier League
Compete
Premier
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To find a clear identity for the team - that is not about buying certain players for a lot of money. It is about getting players who want to play the right way.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Buying
Certain
Clear
Identity
Right Way
Team
Getting
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I like to be funny. I can't stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Behaviour
Calm
Controlled
Focused
Impossible
Nervous
Relax
Stay
Disciplined
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Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!
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Boss
Firsts
Regret
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I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Convince
Six
Training
Impose
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The fact that these owners sacked me doesn't mean that our relationship is broken. I still get on well with Florentino, and although I haven't spoken much with Abramovich since I left Chelsea, I have no problem with him.
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Chelsea
No Problem
Owners
Sacked
Spoken
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I think it's actually more difficult to come to a club where everything is going great and everyone is happy. When you take over from a guy who has been sacked because things weren't going well, it's more straightforward.
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Straightforward
Sacked
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You, as a manager, are judged on results and not on the work you do and the performance of the team. Imagine paying a guy a huge amount of money and then judging him not on the things he can control, but on those he can't.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Judged
Huge Amount
Manager
Paying
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The formula to beat the press is simple; it's the execution that's tough. If you have the quality to do so, you pass your way through it. And if you don't, you just boot it over the top. And then it becomes a game of winning 'second balls'.
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Balls
Execution
Boot
Formula
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Comparing Isco to Zidane isn't ridiculous. He is very close to Zidane in terms of ability, they have a lot of similarities. Zidane is obviously in a better position to judge, and he said Isco isn't there yet but could come close in the future.
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Judging
Ridiculous
Zidane
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When I arrived at Juventus as the manager in 1999, Antonio Conte was the captain of the club, an Italy international, and a player who had a lot of influence in the dressing room - and when I needed a leader in the team, he was the obvious choice.
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Obvious
Arrived
Captain
Dressing
Dressing Room
Italy
Manager
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My impression of Abramovich is that he loves football, his club, and his players. He wants to know everything that is going on and is very passionate. Berlusconi, too, loves his club, but he was a man of the people and conducted his life in public.
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Impression
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Usually, a Brazilian doesn't like to work hard in training, doesn't like to stay focused. I trained a lot of Brazilian players. I had a problem with Ronaldo at Milan. It was not easy to get him fit! Ronaldo was 100kg but was the quickest in the 10 metre test!
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Fit
Focused
Milan
Stay Focused
Training
Brazilian
Players
Test
Trained
Work Hard
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At the start of my two years at Juventus, I had big plans for the club, but it turned out that the Intertoto Cup was the only medal in my desk drawer when finally they told me to pack my bags. We started the first season really well, and Conte was so important for me.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Bags
Medal
Plans
Me Start Important
Club
Cup
Desk
Drawer
Finally
Pack
Season
Turned
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I have never seen a talent like Ronaldo. He always scores, scores, scores. The first game he played for Milan, Sienna away, I said to him, 'I can't put you on the pitch. You are 100kg.' 'Mister,' he said, 'don't worry, I will score.' I put him in, and he scored twice.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Milan
Said
Score
Talent
Worry
Twice
Played
Away
Game
Seen
First
Pitch
Him
Put
Mister
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I love my job. I don't find it stressful, and I only took a rest because I didn't find another club after Real. It was not something that I needed because of stress, because that is not a problem for me. I don't have pressure. I like my job, and I know how it is. I have experience.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Stress
Love Experience Me
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I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in the Second Division, as I feel now. Nothing has changed, but what changes are the number of games, especially for top teams. For this reason, the work has pressure. But only this.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Changed
Division
Games
Pressure
Work Day Feel
Work Day Nothing
Number
Teams
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You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Best Way
Particular
God Best Hope
Beat
Works
Drill
Persuade
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I have worked with some of the most important players, like Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Zidane, but the best are easy to work with because they are so professional. Their winning mentality, professionalism, helps the manager. Of course, sometimes I become angry, but usually my relationship with the players is calm.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Calm
Mentality
Professionalism
Best Work Relationship
Manager
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There is already good organisation at Chelsea, but at Milan, it was about prevention rather than treatment. We want to integrate some of the things we had at Milan here. Some people are surprised when they hear that we solved David Beckham's back problem by fixing his teeth, for example, but we will look at everything.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Beckham
Chelsea
Example
Fixing
Milan
Organisation
Prevention
Teeth
Treatment
Good Look People
David
For Example
Integrate
Solved
Some People
Surprised
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The owner or president is the person who controls the club. The coach's job is to keep him happy. But the key to success, as a manager, is your relationship with the players. Important clubs and important players succeed when the environment is correct. The players must enjoy their work and feel free to express their talents.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Relationship
Clubs
Enjoy
Environment
President
Succeed
Success Work Your
Club
Coach
Controls
Correct
Talents
Express
Owner
Manager
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In Italy, football is too important. There is more pressure on coaches, teams, directors. Now is not a good moment for football in Italy. The stadiums are not full. There are problems with violence; it's very difficult with the ultras. People don't go to the stadium just to enjoy 90 minutes of football. People go to the stadium to fight, to win.
Carlo Ancelotti / Football Manager
Coaches
Italy
Stadium
Teams
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