The magic of Ancelotti? Relaxation key to success, but at Bayern this approach cost him his job

Carlo Ancelotti is a highly successful and experienced coach. However, in recent years, he has not been counted on to achieve any great successes. However, the opposite is true. With Real Madrid he has reached the title, he can win the Champions League. But he hasn’t been everywhere with his key to success.

One of the best coaches of all time. That’s exactly what you should call an Italian strategist. Carlo Ancelotti is, after all, the first coach to win all of the top five leagues in Europe, and he has also won three Champions League titles. In short, he has many trophies to his name.

Ancelotti is known as a very easy-going and fair man. This is also evident this season when he won the title with Real Madrid and took them to the Champions League final. The performances have not necessarily always been the best, but the Madrid team is adorned with character.

Moreover, his charges are able to turn around games with unfavourable developments. Why? Quite possibly because of Ancelotti’s motto. His motto is that too much water kills plants. He says the same is true of training. He doesn’t want to overload his players unnecessarily, so that they can have more strength than the opponent at the end of games.

At Bayern, he didn’t do well with this approach

However, this approach has not always brought him success. Even when… With Bayern, Ancelotti did manage to win the Bundesliga and the German Super Cup twice, but he only coached the team for 60 games and lasted just over a year.

Ancelotti arrived in 2016 to replace Pep Guardiola. He too came under fire from critics, with the Germans not liking his football. However, the players under him were happy. The demanding individuals had very hard training sessions, which suited them though.

It is the demandingness, hard work and honesty that we would find if we were looking for characteristics of the Bundesliga and Germany as a whole. And that’s exactly what Bayern’s players lacked under Ancelotti. The stars of the Bavarian giant have turned against Ancelotti several times.

Legends like Jerome Boateng, Manuel Neuer, Arjen Robben, Franck Ribéry and Thomas Müller even trained secretly behind Ancelotti’s back. However, Kicker magazine has tracked it all down.

Robben even told the media that even his son has more demanding training sessions in the youth categories than the Bayern players.

Ancelotti thus quit Bayern after a year and three months. After that, he managed Napoli and Everton, and his coaching career seemed to be coming to an end, with no more success to come. But then he got the lasso from Real Madrid, where he proves once again that he is still a great coach.

Source: Kicker, Marca