Ballon d'Or 2024: Is Carlo Ancelotti the Best Coach Of This New Generation?

Football has been around for quite some time, and with its passion for play comes guidance. Each football team and club are under the general guidance of a coach, whose entire responsibility for the club falls on him/her. In the present football world, some coaches have proven to be the best at their job by honing and tuning their teams to win trophies and playing with styles. While some coaches aim to improve players individually, some coaches tend to coach players as a group and a system, all of which are set within tactics of play. Coaches like Sir Alex Ferguson, Jürgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Zinedine Zidane, and Carlo Ancelotti has made their mark in football as coaches by winning titles and breaking records.

Carlo Ancelotti has just won the Manager of the Year award, but this article is centered around Don Carlo's greatness as a Coach and why he’s the best manager the world has ever seen.

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Carlo Ancelotti vs Other Managers

Coaches	Clubs	Titles/Achievement
Pep Guardiola	Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester City	6 Premier League titles, 3 La Liga titles, 3 Bundesliga titles, 3 Champions Leagues, 4 UEFA Super Cup, etc.
Alex Ferguson	Manchester United	13 Premier League, 2 Champions League, 5 FA Cup, etc.
Jürgen Klopp	Borussia Dortmund, Liverpool	2 Bundesliga titles, 1 Premier League title, 1 Champions League, etc.
Zinedine Zidane	Real Madrid	2 La Liga titles, 3 Champions League, etc.
Carlo Ancelotti	AC Milan, Chelsea, Real Madrid	1 Premier League title,1 Bundesliga title, 1 Ligue 1 title, 1 Serie A, 2 La Liga titles, 5 Champions Leagues, etc.
José Mourinho	Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Roma	2 Champions League, 3 Premier League titles, 2 Serie A titles, 1 La Liga title, 1 Europa League, 1 Conference League, etc.
Arsène Wenger	Arsenal	3 Premier League titles, 7 FA Cups, etc.
Vicente del Bosque	Real Madrid, Spain National Team	2 La Liga titles, 2 Champions League, 1 World Cup, etc.
Arrigo Sacchi	AC Milan, Italy National Team	1 Serie A title, 2 European Cup, 2 European Super Cup, etc.
Fabio Capello	AC Milan, Real Madrid, England National Team	5 Serie A titles, 2 La Liga titles, 1 Champions League title, etc.
Johan Cruyff	Ajax, Barcelona	4 La Liga titles, 1 European Cup, etc.
Marcelo Lippi	Juventus, Italy National Team	5 Serie A titles, 1 Champions League, 1 World Cup, etc.
Diego Simeone	Atlético Madrid	2 La Liga titles, 2 Europa League titles, etc.
Louis van Gaal	Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Netherlands Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Netherlands	4 Eredivisie titles, 2 La Liga titles, 1 Bundesliga title, 1 Champions League etc.
Didier Deschamps	France National Team	1 Ligue 1 title, World Cup, etc.

Clubs coached by Ancelotti

Carlo Ancelotti

Carlo Ancelotti has been a manager for about 25 years, managing about 10 clubs and winning numerous titles in all leagues he has coached. With his brilliance in European football, Don Carlo won the Champions League in different clubs and primary leagues while coaching. Don, having started coaching in the late 1900s, coached a Serie B club and earned a promotion to the Serie A in his first season as a manager, after which he started writing his histories, moving from the club and smashing titles on his part. As one of the most decorated coaches ever, Carlo Ancelotti has won silverware in at least all the clubs he has coached.

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Ancelotti's Career

Regianna: 1995-1996
AC Parma: 1996-1997
Juventus: 1998-2001
Milan: 2002 -2008
Chelsea: 2009 - 2010
Paris Saint-Germain: 2011-2013
Real Madrid: 2013 -2015
Bayern Munich: 2016-2017
Napoli: 2018-2019
Everton: 2019-2021
Real Madrid: 2021- present

Accomplishments and Individual titles as a manager

Carlo Ancelotti

A coach's major value lies in his number of trophies and the experience to win big matches. Carlo Ancelotti has proved to be an icon, having faced off with some of the best coaches in the world and won. The manager's entire career is stacked with trophies, having won about 30 major trophies and being the only manager ever to have won the league title in all of Europe's top five leagues (Ligue 1, Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga, and the Premier League).

Carlo is the only coach to have won the Champions League five times and played in six finals. He is said to be the most experienced and successful coach in the league's history.

Below are some of Ancelotti’s achievements as a coach in European clubs:

Juventus

UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999

AC Milan

Serie A: 2003–04
Coppa Italia: 2002–03
Supercoppa Italiana: 2004
UEFA Champions League: 2002–03, 2006–07
UEFA Super Cup: 2003, 2007
FIFA Club World Cup: 2007

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Chelsea

Premier League: 2009–10
FA Cup: 2009–10
FA Community Shield: 2009

Paris Saint-Germain

Ligue 1: 2012–13

Real Madrid

La Liga: 2021–22, 2023–24
Copa del Rey: 2013–14, 2022–23
Supercopa de España: 2021–22, 2023–24
UEFA Champions League: 2013–14, 2021–22, 2023–24
UEFA Super Cup: 2014, 2022, 2024
FIFA Club World Cup: 2014, 2022

Bayern Munich

Bundesliga: 2016–17
DFL-Supercup: 2016, 2017

Carlo Ancelotti’s individual honors:

Men’s Johan Cruyff Trophy: 2024
Serie A Coach of the Year: 2001, 2004
Panchina d’Oro: 2002–03, 2003–04
Ligue 1 Coach of the Year: 2012–13
IFFHS World’s Best Club Coach: 2007, 2014, 2022
UEFA Men’s Coach of the Year: 2021–22
Globe Soccer Awards Best Coach of the Year: 2014, 2022
Onze d’Or Coach of the Year: 2021–22
Premier League Manager of the Month
La Liga Manager of the Month
Globe Soccer Awards Best Media Attraction in Football: 2014
Enzo Bearzot Award: 2014
Miguel Muñoz Trophy: 2014–15, 2021–22
AS Roma Hall of Fame: 2014
Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2015
AC Milan Hall of Fame

Real Madrid's coach has already begun his aim of winning the 2024/2025 Champions League with a comeback against Borussia Dortmund to win the game at the Bernabéu. Pundits Odds on the Coach and Madrid are below:

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