Carlo Ancelotti

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Carlo Ancelotti
Full name	Carlo Ancelotti
Date of birth	June 10, 1959 (age 47)
Place of birth	Reggiolo, Italy
Height	1.80 m
Nickname	Carletto
Playing position	Manager (former midfielder)
Club information
Current club	A.C. Milan
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1976-1979 1979-1987 1987-1992	Parma A.C. A.S. Roma A.C. Milan
National team
1981-1991	Italy	25 (1)
Teams managed
?-1996 1996-1999 1999-2001 2001-present	A.C. Reggiana 1919 Parma A.C. Juventus F.C. A.C. Milan
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Carlo Ancelotti (born June 10, 1959 in Reggiolo) is a former football player and now coach. He has been coach of the Italian team A.C. Milan since November 2001 when he succeeded Fatih Terim. Before that he coached A.C. Reggiana 1919, Parma A.C. and Juventus F.C..

With numerous titles, including the UEFA Champions League and the prestigious Scudetto won under his reign, he is arguably one of the most successful Milan coaches of all time.

[edit] Playing career

As a player, "Carletto" appeared 26 times for Italy, and played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He started his career in 1976 with Parma AC. In 1979 he transferred to AS Roma, where he won the Italian championship and 4 times the Italian Cup. From 1987 until 1992 he played for AC Milan. He was in the legendary AC Milan team that won the 1989 and 1990 Champion Clubs' Cups in Barcelona and Vienna.

[edit] Coaching career

His first club as a trainer was A.C. Reggiana 1919. In 1996 he helped Reggiana to Serie A promotion and was appointed as AC Parma head coach. In 1999 he became the successor of Marcello Lippi at Juventus, but was remembered as an "almost-man", because during his time in charge at the Turin based club, he never won a single trophy. Despite so, Juventus played well in both seasons and came close to winning the league titles. That all changed when he went to AC Milan in 2001.

Since moving to Milan, he was nothing but successful. In his first season with Milan, Ancelotti took the team and brought them back to international competitions. Before Ancelotti came to Milan, Milan has not produced since 1999. Ancelotti took them to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup and Milan finished fourth, ending the season at a high note. The following season, Ancelotti, who was threatened and heavily criticized by Club President Silvio Berlusconi due to his defensive plays, was able to adopt a creative play in Milan. He converted rising superstar Andrea Pirlo to a defensive playmaker and played him along with Manuel Rui Costa. At the same time, the striking partners of Filippo Inzaghi and Andriy Shevchenko were dominant and dynamic. Milan won the Champions League in 2002-2003, beating Italian rivals Juventus 3-2 on penalties at Old Trafford. The following season, under the new playmaker Kaká, Milan won lo scudetto (Serie A), as well as the Coppa Italia.

Since then, however, the tag of "nearly man" has come back to haunt Ancelotti, with two consecutive league runners-up places (to Juventus, although the match-fixing scandal has seen both wiped from the record books), and a horrific penalty shoot-out defeat to Liverpool in the 2005 Champions League Final, despite having been 3-0 ahead at half-time.

In 2003, he became the fifth coach to win the European crown as both player and coach. The other four are: Miguel Muñoz (Real Madrid player 1956, 1957, Real Madrid coach 1960, 1966); Giovanni Trapattoni (AC Milan player 1963, 1969, Juventus coach 1985); Johan Cruyff (AFC Ajax player 1971-73, FC Barcelona coach 1992) and, in 2006,Frank Rijkaard repeated this landmark (AC Milan player 1989, 1990, Ajax Player 1995, FC Barcelona coach 2006).

Ancelotti has recently been put on the list of possible candidates who may receive the managerial position at Chelsea for the 2007-08 season, should Jose Mourinho depart.^{[citation needed]}

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Carlo Ancelotti management career stats at Soccerbase

Preceded by Marcello Lippi	Serie A Coach of the Year 2004	Succeeded by Fabio Capello
Preceded by Vicente Del Bosque	UEFA Champions League Winning Coach 2002-03	Succeeded by José Mourinho
Preceded by Fatih Terim	A.C. Milan managers 2001-2006	Succeeded by present
Preceded by Sven-Göran Eriksson	Serie A Coach of the Year 2001	Succeeded by Luigi Del Neri
Preceded by Agostino Di Bartolomei	AS Roma Captain 1984-1987	Succeeded by Giuseppe Giannini

	Italy squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup
1 Galli \| 2 Bergomi \| 3 Cabrini \| 4 Collovati \| 5 Nela \| 6 Scirea \| 7 Tricella \| 8 Vierchowod \| 9 Ancelotti \| 10 Bagni \| 11 Baresi \| 12 Tancredi \| 13 De Napoli \| 14 Di Gennaro \| 15 Tardelli \| 16 Conti \| 17 Vialli \| 18 Altobelli \| 19 Galderisi \| 20 Rossi \| 21 Serena \| 22 Zenga \| Coach: Bearzot

	Italy squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup Third Place
1 Zenga \| 2 Baresi \| 3 Bergomi \| 4 De Agostini \| 5 Ferrara \| 6 Ferri \| 7 Maldini \| 8 Vierchowod \| 9 Ancelotti \| 10 Berti \| 11 De Napoli \| 12 Tacconi \| 13 Giannini \| 14 Marocchi \| 15 Baggio \| 16 Carnevale \| 17 Donadoni \| 18 Mancini \| 19 Schillaci \| 20 Serena \| 21 Vialli \| 22 Pagliuca \| Coach: Vicini

A.C. Milan - Current Squad

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