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.