Carlo Ancelotti

Carlo Ancelotti
Personal Information
Date Of Birth			10 June 1959
Place of Birth			Reggiolo, Italy
Height			1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing Position			Midfielder
Club information
Current Club			Manager of Real Madrid
Youth Career
Reggiolo			1973-1975
Parma			1975-1976
Senior career
Team	Year		Apps+		Gls+
Parma	1976-1979		55		13
Roma	1979-1987		171		12
Milan	1987-1992		112		10
Total			338		35
National team
Italy		1981-1991		26	1
Teams managed
Reggiana			1195-1996
Parma			1996-1998
Juventus			1999-2001
Milan			2001-2009
Chelsea			2009-2011
Paris Saint-Germain			2011-2013
Real Madrid			2013-

The secret behind Ancelotti’s insistence on excluding Casillas!!

Spanish sports Newspaper (DEM) revealed today about "secret" behind the insistence of the Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti to keep the captain goalkeeper Iker Casillas on the bench up and pushing  Diego Lopez essential where it said that "Carlito" preferred "tall" since his inception in the world of training.

The length of Casillas 185 cm while the length Lopez 196 cm.

At the beginning of his coaching career with Parma in 1996-97 Ancelotti  began with Luka Pucci with a length of 180 cm and did not continue with only eight rounds and after two defeats but his bet, depending on Gianluigi Buffon (191 cm), who was then 18 years old and without much experience.

Pucci later found himself forced to sit up and left in the half of the season towards Perugia, and then Buffon still essential for two seasons until the departure of Ancelotti.

Ancelotti then arrived to lead Juventus in the middle of the 1998-99 season and was then goalkeeper Anglo Barutse, short stature, and once the request of the Italian coach season contract with van der Sar (199 cm).

Forced Barutse, who was then of the symbols of the "old lady" for the departure to Inter Milan, Ancelotti remained dependent on Van der Sar throughout the seasons, until his departure.

Then Ancelotti still without a team until the 2001-2002 season where he began training AC Milan in November and did not affect the goalkeeper, which was handled by Christian Abbiati (191 cm) until the beginning of the 2002-2003 season.

After that Ancelotti changed his  bet on the Tallest  guard who was Brazilian Dida (195 cm) Goalkeeper remained for five seasons, in the end suffered a threat to the injury and his replacement came in the 2007-2008 season, a Australian Zeljko Kalac (202 cm), and in his last year with AC Milan returned Abbiati played a key role.

In 2009, Ancelotti coached Chelsea, where has not been touched during the two-year spell in England Peter Cech (196 cm), and in the season and a half he spent with PSG remained dependent on Salvatore Sergei (192 cm) ..

Barcelona coach: We need to improve the team play to help the individual skills

Argentine Gerardo "Tata" Martino coach for FC Barcelona football team's Expects success depends very much on providing assistance to the collective performance of individual skills, and not vice versa.

The coach said at a news conference on Saturday, "What is required is to improve teamwork, to help individual skills. If that happens, given to players who we have in Barcelona, it will be our great year."

To improve the collective performance, he noted "Tata" to "coordinate" collective moves, where he was that, despite the ease of passing the ball, he noted that Barca since the time of the "suffering for assists industry" in the last twenty meters.

Justifying the coach absence of Xavi Hernandez and Chilean Alexis Sanchez from the list of the team on the trip tomorrow to Valencia in the third round of the Spanish league, following the rotation policy objective Each players who participate for a longer time in the games, noting that both players will join the teams of their respective countries next week.

Martino said the players who participated in the Confederations Cup in Brazil in June last year did not reach to the best levels, while he said that Messi missed the team's training yesterday a desire to give him a chance to fully recover after the recent injury, and pointed out that he trained a normal day.

Martino said he expected his  rival will play well tomorrow, "in order to win" after losing to Espanyol: "We have to avoid that Valencia offers strength, and must deal with players such as Argentine Ever Banega, not to control the rhythm of the meeting."

Although Barcelona has not entered into during the current summer transfer season only Brazilian Neymar deal, Argentine coach expressed his satisfaction for this situation, deferred any changes to the team to the next winter.

The coach said that his club leads the standings with six points and eight goals without conceding: "I think we're okay and we have a good team."