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Carlo Ancelotti Admits He Learned A Lot From A Positive First Season At Chelsea
Italian impressed with English football's attacking nature...
27-May-2010 5:55:00 PM
By Zack Wilson
Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti has acknowledged that his first season as a manager in the Premier League has taught him a lot.
The Italian steered the Blues to their first ever League and FA Cup double but admits that he still picked up some vital things along the way.
He also learned that English football, although at times distinguished by some very naive defending, is a much more exciting product than that served up by Serie A.
"I try to change something in the play but for me it was a very good experience this year," he told his club's official website.
"I learnt a lot of things, not only tactically but physically.
"For example in Italy, in training, we used to physically work without the ball. Here we work always with the ball - and here I learnt this. This is a very good thing.
"Technically, I think the small teams have more knowledge in Italy. Defensively, it is impossible in Italy to have a score 7-0 or 9-1 because the small teams stay back to defend and only do counter-attack.
"Here you can say that small teams play good football, they attack. Here it is different.
"Before I had good knowledge about the top four but not the small teams. I learnt that here."
Ancelotti also enjoyed the celebratory bus parade which marked the Blues' triumphs this season, treating supporters to a song on the way round.
"We did also in Italy the celebration with the bus," he added.
"I like to sing but I didn't prepare anything so I tried to sing a famous Italian song, 'Volare', and I think it was good for the atmosphere.
"It is very good to have a celebration with our fans, there was a fantastic atmosphere and this improves the relationship between the fans and the team. In the future it will be important to have this good relationship.
"But I don't know why they threw to us celery."
Ancelotti also concedes that his time as a player at AC Milan alongside the likes of Ruud Gullit and under the management of Arrigo Sacchi was a massive influence on the way he works now.
"Gullit was my friend. We played five years together, we shared a room, I have a very good relationship with him and he was a fantastic, attacking striker," the Italian explained.
"For me and also for a lot of players Sacchi was a fantastic teacher because also in that team there was a lot of players who have since done jobs as manager - Gullit, Van Basten, Rijkaard, Tassotti, Galli, me - there are seven or eight players from that squad who are coaches."
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The Italian steered the Blues to their first ever League and FA Cup double but admits that he still picked up some vital things along the way.
He also learned that English football, although at times distinguished by some very naive defending, is a much more exciting product than that served up by Serie A.
"I try to change something in the play but for me it was a very good experience this year," he told his club's official website.
"I learnt a lot of things, not only tactically but physically.
"For example in Italy, in training, we used to physically work without the ball. Here we work always with the ball - and here I learnt this. This is a very good thing.
"Technically, I think the small teams have more knowledge in Italy. Defensively, it is impossible in Italy to have a score 7-0 or 9-1 because the small teams stay back to defend and only do counter-attack.
"Here you can say that small teams play good football, they attack. Here it is different.
"Before I had good knowledge about the top four but not the small teams. I learnt that here."
Ancelotti also enjoyed the celebratory bus parade which marked the Blues' triumphs this season, treating supporters to a song on the way round.
"We did also in Italy the celebration with the bus," he added.
"I like to sing but I didn't prepare anything so I tried to sing a famous Italian song, 'Volare', and I think it was good for the atmosphere.
"It is very good to have a celebration with our fans, there was a fantastic atmosphere and this improves the relationship between the fans and the team. In the future it will be important to have this good relationship.
"But I don't know why they threw to us celery."
Ancelotti also concedes that his time as a player at AC Milan alongside the likes of Ruud Gullit and under the management of Arrigo Sacchi was a massive influence on the way he works now.
"Gullit was my friend. We played five years together, we shared a room, I have a very good relationship with him and he was a fantastic, attacking striker," the Italian explained.
"For me and also for a lot of players Sacchi was a fantastic teacher because also in that team there was a lot of players who have since done jobs as manager - Gullit, Van Basten, Rijkaard, Tassotti, Galli, me - there are seven or eight players from that squad who are coaches."
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