Ancelotti also hugged Coach Adkins very warmly in front of many media, without any airs of a big-name coach.

As a player, Ancelotti was once the main midfielder of AC Milan, but he was not a top player. His reputation as a player was obviously not as good as Roberto Mancini, who was also an Italian coach.

However, as a coach, Ancelotti is someone his fellow countryman Mancini will never be able to surpass.

There are many famous coaches in the world, from Cruyff, to Guardiola, Mourinho, Lippi, Van Gaal, Ferguson, Wenger, and even Zidane, can all be regarded as first-class coaches.

But putting aside personal likes and dislikes and other reasons, Ancelotti definitely has a place among the world's famous coaches, and he is a top head coach at the T0 level.

Ancelotti's coaching ability and ability to change formations are very strong.

Milan's classic Christmas tree formation is his masterpiece, Pirlo was brought to life by him, Kaka was trained to become a world-class player by him, and Mourinho's 433 defensive counter-attack formation also evolved from Ancelotti's formation...

Ancelotti is also the first head coach in football history to dominate the world's top five leagues and win championships in all five leagues.

Of course, Ancelotti was scolded by fans in his early days.

When he coached Juventus in 1999, the Old Lady's diehard fans held up a banner that read "Juventus doesn't need a pig to coach". For a long time, Ancelotti was called the Pig, the Eternal Second, the Good Guy, and various nicknames that did not meet the broadcast standards.

In the early days of his coaching career, Ancelotti was indeed unable to satisfy the club's fans.

Before the Calciopoli scandal, Serie A was known as the "Little World Cup", and Ancelotti was able to coach Juventus and AC Milan, two of the world's top clubs, which shows that he is indeed a capable person. Moreover, Juventus and AC Milan are sworn enemies. Logically speaking, as the head coach of these two rival clubs, he would at least gain the love of the fans on both sides.

However, Ancelotti is hated equally by fans from both sides.

Juventus hated Ancelotti for twice finishing second in Serie A, hated him for losing the championship conceded in the heavy rain in Perugia, and insulted him by saying "pigs can't coach."

Milan fans sneered at him for only knowing how to lick Berlusconi's xx. In order to make Berlusconi happy, he created a flashy Christmas tree formation, abandoned Milan's traditional style of play, and beat Deportivo La Coruna 4:1 in the first round of the Champions League. In the end, he was eliminated by Deportivo La Coruna 4:0 in an away game.

And then there is Istanbul by night.

The head coach of AC Milan that was defeated by Liverpool was Ancelotti.

It's not just AC Milan. No matter how good a team is, it will almost always be reversed at the critical moment when it comes into his hands.

However, one cannot deny that Ancelotti is really resilient and fits in very well with Chelsea.

Frederick, the founder of Chelsea Club, was bitten by a dog and bled but he still smiled when he founded the club. Ancelotti was scolded as a pig by his own fans but he still smiled.

Ancelotti is the kind of coach who will never collapse and can keep fighting despite repeated defeats.

Ancelotti's style is Italian conservative, emphasizing defensive order and rigor. He also advocates practicality and usually likes to use a lineup to the extreme. Of course, he will set up luxurious formations and use high-priced stars in order to please the club owners.

In fact, in some ways, Ancelotti is very similar to Mourinho.

It’s not about their personalities, their personalities are completely opposite, Ancelotti is the people-pleasing type, while Mourinho is the “screw it” type.

Their similarities lie in their tactical thinking.

On the tactical level, Ancelotti is a conservative and pragmatic head coach. Although Mourinho learned from Van Gaal, he is also a conservative and pragmatic head coach. The difference is that when he has enough ability to attack, Mourinho is more like Van Gaal on the offensive level, very decisive and fierce, while Ancelotti will never go all out even when he has enough ability to attack.

This is also the reason why, after Mourinho left Chelsea for the first time, although there were two head coaches in between, Chelsea immediately became like a duck in water as soon as Ancelotti took over.

Mourinho's 433 was originally a modification of Ancelotti's formation. When Ancelotti took over Chelsea, he further improved the 433 with Italian style. With the joint efforts of the two, this Chelsea has been trained to be able to compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The same thing happened to them later in Real Madrid. Mourinho went to Real Madrid first, and when Mourinho left Real Madrid, Ancelotti took over Real Madrid. The tactical styles of the two head coaches were not seamless, but at least they were very matched, and clubs like Chelsea and Real Madrid did not experience the chaos like when Ten Hag took over Manchester United.

Compared with Ancelotti, Mourinho seems to be more popular.

However, Mourinho himself admitted that Ancelotti is the real role model for head coach.

From a tactical perspective, Ancelotti and Mourinho's styles are completely different from Cruyff and Guardiola's. These four coaches can basically represent the two major coaching styles in today's football.

One is pragmatism, and the other is system.

Cruyff and Guardiola's deployment of troops is actually not very brilliant. Their formation does not play a decisive role, nor do the stars play a decisive role. What really plays a decisive role is the system they set up themselves, and they must use the system-type disciples they have trained themselves.

Why do most of Barcelona's main players graduate from La Masia? It's not because Barcelona favors La Masia, nor is it because La Masia is strong enough to rule the world, but because La Masia itself is specifically designed to train talents for the Barcelona system.

This is just like a factory producing parts. Parts from other factories can also be used in the Barcelona system, but the parts that truly fit the Barcelona system are definitely those produced by the La Masia factory.

For example, Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Pique, Busquets, Pedro...

A system-based team is actually an assembly line factory, but it cannot be denied that the products produced by assembly line factories are often of better quality than those made by hand, are very beautiful, very durable, and can produce stars in batches.

After the success of Cruyff's passing and controlling style, more and more clubs in Europe began to learn this factory assembly line method, so in a very short period of time, Europe was basically dominated by the passing and controlling style.

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