The Italian technician Carlo Ancelotti managed this Saturday to add his first Spanish League title with Real Madrid, becoming the first coach to win the five major European leagues, while dreaming of another Champions League record.
The 4-0 victory over Espanyol Este at the Santiago Bernabéu has allowed them to lift the league title in their third season in Spain, after his first two years at Real Madrid (2013-2015), when he failed to win the national trophy.
The Italian coach had already been the first coach to win four of the five major championships Europeans by taking the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich in 2017.
Ancelotti thus surpassed the Portuguese José Mourinho, who has his triumphs in Spain with Real Madrid (2012), in Italy with Inter (2009, 2010) and in England with Chelsea (2005, 2006).
The Italian technician now increases his legend on the benches by adding the Spanish League with Real Madrid to his previous titles in national championships.
Ancelotti won in England with Chelsea (2010)in Italy with AC Milan (2004), in France with Paris Saint-Germain (2013) and in Germany with Bayern Munich (2017).
– ‘Happy’ to return to Madrid –
The Italian coach has managed to get hold of his first Spanish League on his return to Real Madrid, after his first two years in which he stayed at the gates.
In the 2013-2014 season, Ancelotti’s Real Madrid was third in a championship won by Atlético de Madrid. It was the only thing missing in 2014 in which he won the Champions League, the Copa del Rey, the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup.
in the next campaign he was league runner-up behind FC Barcelona, unable to repeat the successful previous year and left the club at the end of the season.
“I am very happy to come back here, to what I think is my home. I am going to leave all my energy, all together. I have very good memories of the relationship I have had with all and I think we are going to repeat something good in this new challenge”, said Ancelotti last June in his presentation as merengue coach, relieving Zidane.
“I am proud to coach Real MadridIt’s something very special,” Ancelotti added in an interview with former player and former merengue coach Jorge Valdano.
The bet has gone well and, although eliminated from the Copa del Rey, hHe has raised a title that he longed for and he is still in the race to win his second Champions League with Real Madrid and also make history in the European championship.
– Four Champions? –
Ancelotti aspires to win his second Champions League with Real Madrid, after the one he won in 2104 against Atlético de Madrid.
If he succeeds, the Italian coach, winner of 23 trophies throughout his coaching career, wille would become the first coach to win four ‘Orejonas’.
To his triumph with Real Madrid on the European scene in 2014, Ancelotti adds the two titles achieved in the maximum tournament continental with Milan (2003 and 2007).
To reach the Champions League final and win it, Ancelotti would surpass to the other two trainers who have three European Cups to their name, the Frenchman Zinedine Zidane and the Englishman Bob Paisley.
Zidane, Ancelotti’s second in Lisbon when Real Madrid beat Atlético 4-1 in extra time in the Champions League final, gHe won the trophy three consecutive years with the white team (2016, 2017, 2018).
Paisley, Liverpool legend, he won the European Cup three times with the English team in 1977, 1978 and 1981.
Two world football legends whom Ancelotti will leave behind if it reaches the end and the winner comes out on May 28 in Paris.