Carlo Ancelotti is the first manager ever to win all big five League titles and the first to win the Champions League four times, so is he the best Italian coach of all time?
The Italian tactician turns 63 next month and completed a record-breaking 2021-22 campaign at Real Madrid.
He won LaLiga with several weeks to spare, finishing the set of all five major European League titles after Serie A at Milan, the Premier League with Chelsea, Ligue 1 at PSG and the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich.
This evening, his Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0 in the Champions League Final for the club’s 14th edition of this trophy, including European Cup tournaments.
It was Ancelotti’s fourth after the 2002-03 and 2006-07 triumphs at Milan and the 2013-14 success at Real Madrid.
No coach had ever managed to do this four times, as Bob Paisley and Zinedine Zidane – Ancelotti’s former assistant at Real Madrid – stopped at three.
POLL: Is Carlo Ancelotti the greatest Italian coach of all time? https://t.co/Qd0ujQvhJJ #RealMadrid #LIVRMA #LFC #UCL #UCLFinal
— footballitalia (@footballitalia) May 28, 2022
4 – Carlo #Ancelotti became the manager to have won the UEFA Champions League the most times: four (for AC Milan in 2002/03 and 2006/07, for Real Madrid in 2013/14 and in 2021/22). Myth. #LiverpoolVsRealMadrid pic.twitter.com/LCJ7d163be
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No, the best Italian coach ever is named Max Allegri.
Joint second best with Lippi (WC). First place goes to PhD Max, Legend of The Ten Rings. 6 time Scudetto winner, 5 with no competition and a 2 time whooped CL runners up winner. Medieval Max has revolutionized the game with the Feng Shui back, back, down, down.
ABSOLUTELY!!!
Yes by a mile! No other coach can compare- you could mention Trappatonj, or capello or sacchi or Lippi….none of them stand a chance because his records speaks for him… Only him now occupies that Divine seat reserved for the greatest! A man who lives football- a football genius, a microcosm of calm. A prodigy of tact and embodiment of basics. Respect Don carletto
Ancelotti and Allegri are neck and neck. It is hard to say who is better.
@Muto … I can’t cease to laugh.you just cracked the laugh out of me
He is the best coach of all time period.
Agreed @LORD and @Muto, Allegri has already cemented his place at Juventus. Now just give him the Italy job to ruin them even more and fortify his rightful place within Italy and beyond.
Carlo is up there with the greatest of all time at the international level. Of course he is the greatest italian manager of all time.
Yes, he is. Bravo Carletto! and compliments to Real Madrid for such a beautiful season.
Ancelotti, Sacchi, Lippi, Trapatoni, Capello. That’s the top 5 obviously. Hard to pick one. Carlo is the most successful of the lot in European competitions but you’ve got to consider other factors as well. Being a manager of superstars and not a coach who can build his own team and revolutionize football or the fact that he’s only won 4-5 leagues in his career while he’s always in charge of the strongest team in each country, trophies with the National team etc.
Simone Dottore Inzaggi is for sure the best manager alive. Not only in Italy. With his long hair he is really putting the winds into the game of Milano’s best team: FC Internazionale di Peqing. No comparison to Ancelotti (or his son), PhD Inzaggi definitely rules them all.
The question that should be asked is if he is the best Coach in the World, not the best Italian Coach of all time, he has achieved great things that has never been achieved by anyone.
The reason he is incredibly successful is simply because he was coached as a player by great coaches,Cesare Maldini at Parma, Sven Goran Erikssen and Leidholm at Roma,Arigo Sacchi,Capello ,Enzo Beazort and a host of others, who instilled in him Humility, patience, professionalism decency and honesty, he is far better than all the Italian Coaches because he has won more than any of them, has Coached in 5 different Countries, and has won in these countries, he knows how to build winning teams, and acts and behaves as a gentleman, never complains about signing, and uses what he has , he is supremely experienced, and also he improves his players and teams in general, he is simply the best Coach in the World of all time…
Hey @fake INZAGHI get the China part correct like you did the first time. Are you still adding more usernames to your ever growing sad list and ripping off the original infamous LORD ALLEGRI. Loser get a life and be more original. I do not agree with LORD PATRON on most things but I will give it to him. He is at least creative with the name and PhD routine.
ANCELOTTI SHOULD REPLACE MANCINI IN ITALIA NATIONAL TEAM
The best manager is Conte
Luckily he won Serie A when he did. Now it’s not even a top 5 league. I’d rank the leagues as follows:
England
Spain
Germany
France
Portuguese
Italy
He’s a living legend.
If he finally takes charge of the national team and wins the World Cup, then he’ll be the best in the world and no one will ever reach his level.
Italian all time greats are as follows:
1. Allegri
2. Trappatoni
3. Ancelotti
4. Lippi
5. Capello
imagine napoli sacked this guy. as long as ADL there napoli wont even win scudetti. they like sending player retreat and sacking manager than winning scudetto
@ Usman Yusuf totally agree and Milan Fan that would be so sweet, the icing on the cake!!!
Yes he is and he can make sure of that with success in international football.People trolling Allegri he’s not close but respect the guy he won like 5 or 6 scudetto.
Love Carletto but I would rate him no 3 after Lippi (won WC and UCL) and Sacchi (his Milan was revolutionary). Ancelotti is ahead of Trap and Capello.
Only coach you can compare to this man is Allegri. His 2 glorious, grandeous UCL finals tops everything and everyone, it is still mentioned by his followers today. Idk man… its a tight one. We don’t even need to look at his revolutionary football philosophies and tactics to proclaim that he is a little ahead of Carletto.
Sacchi genuinely revolutionised football in Europe. Lippi’s Juventus were, for half a decade, the best team in the world. And he won in 2006 in Germany. Ancelotti has been consistent. And I don’t think he is finished yet. Trapattoni also really changed football and was the first Italian coach to have significant success away from Italy. And who can forget ‘strunz’? It’s very difficult to say who is ‘best’. I’m just glad an Italian holds another record in world football – most CL wins as a manager. So bravo Carletto.
He’s a great manager but a comparison is pointless because the others existed in different eras. Sacchi had total football at his disposal and took advantage. Lippi created a formidable Juve and also won the WC against a lot of odds. Capello created a formidable Milan that annihilated Cruyff’s Barca. Going abroad wasn’t the done thing in their eras. Trap did amazingly well on that front. One thing is for sure… Italian produce the most successful coaches and are world renowned. Maybe we should stop being so self-deprecating when we talk about our sport.
It has to be Allegri. 6 league titles in just over a decade, several national cups and super cups, and most important of all, he reached two Champions League finals. He only lost because he came up against the best two teams the game has ever seen. Simply incredible.
When you add his trophy cabinet to tactical brilliance and philosophy, i.e. don’t attack, have everyone sit back (including the new superstar striker and their explosive young winger), rely on the opponents inability to put the ball in the back of the net, take the one or two chances his individual talents make for themselves.
When you add in his exceptional ability to bring out the best in his players, courage when it comes to fielding youngsters and skill when it comes to developing them, and then finally, his inspirational words such as when he told his players that they had achieved their objective on the eve of the Villareal game (what a wonderful motivational trick)…. utter genius.
We are very lucky to have him. In another universe Allegri is working with Musk, developing rockets which will finally take us to Mars. The two are at loggerheads however, because Musk wants to get there asap, while Allegri insists on taking the scenic route and stopping at the halfway point and allowing China and Russia to get there first.
@Fatecisognare, I agree with you that there are more opportunities to manage abroad compared to 20 or 30 years ago.
But it’s still a tremendous challenge, especially at the highest level. Even today there are only few that were able to succeed in different countries at the highest level: Ancelotti, Mourinho & Guardiola. Benitez, Conte, Mancini, etc. are second tier.
Some managers also don’t want to challenge themselves and experience different cultures.
Allegri could have easily made the switch to the PL after his success at Juve, he was supposedly offered the Chelsea and Arsenal jobs, but he rejected.