“A month out from the World Cup, Brazil’s head coach Carlo Ancelotti appears, as always, utterly at ease. Now 66, Ancelotti has seen it all, and worked for them all: Silvio Berlusconi at Milan, Roman Abramovich at Chelsea, the Emir of Qatar at Paris Saint-Germain, Aurelio De Laurentiis at Napoli and, over two spells, Florentino Perez at Real Madrid. As for the players he has coached, it is the stuff of absurd fantasy; both Ronaldos, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Karim Benzema, Didier Drogba, Zinedine Zidane, Kaka, Gareth Bale, Clarence Seedorf… we could go on and on and on. So many of them seemed to like him, too. When Ancelotti was fired at Chelsea, John Terry and Frank Lampard joined him at the goodbye party. Kaka said Ancelotti leaves behind a ‘nice feeling in a player’s heart’. …”
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