Carlo Ancelotti

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

As a player, Ancelotti 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. 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). In 2006,Frank Rijkaard repeated this landmark (AC Milan player 1989, 1990, Ajax Player 1995, FC Barcelona coach 2006).

His first club as a trainer was Reggiana Calcio. 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 success. 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 three titles in the same season (Champions League, Coppa Italia and European Supercup). The following season, under the new playmaker Kaká, Milan won the Italian League. After ending the season 2005-06 at a high note, and with a possible elimination of Juventus from the Serie-A, Milan has been predicted to dominate the Serie-A.

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