“Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has revealed which managers are his competitors for being the best coach in the last 30 years.
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has answered questions about whether he is the best manager of the last 30 years.
The Italian was asked in a recent press conference about the topic, and Ancelotti claims he is not the best, as managers like Pep Guardiola, Sir Alex Ferguson, and Valeriy Lobanovskyi have won more than him.
Ancelotti then jokingly claimed that even if he thought he was the best manager in the past 30 years, there won’t be a statue of him.
Speaking to the media ahead of Los Blancos’ upcoming La Liga game against Osasuna, he said (as relayed by French outlet L’Equipe):
I don’t believe I’m the best coach of the last 30 years. I’ve won a lot, but there are coaches who have won more. Ferguson, Guardiola, and before that Lobanovsky. And even if I thought I was the best coach of the last 30 years, what then? They won’t build me a statue (laughs).
Carlo Ancelotti is one of the most successful managers of the modern era, with his most significant spells coming with clubs like AC Milan, Chelsea, and Real Madrid.” (Sports Illustrated)
Valeriy Lobanovskyi Lobanovskyi is most famous for his spells managing FC Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national football team. Lobanovskyi established Dynamo as the most dominant club in Soviet football in the 1970s and 1980s, winning the Soviet Top League eight times and the Soviet Cup six times in 16 years.
Lobanovskyi has coached three Ballon d’Or winners — Oleh Blokhin, Igor Belanov and Andriy Shevchenko.[20][21][22] In 2007, The Times included him on its list of the top 50 managers of all time,[23] and in 2022, FourFourTwo ranked him at No. 26 on its special list of the Top 100 football managers of all time.[24]
In the summer of 1999, Shevchenko was sold to AC Milan. A.C. Milan won the Champions League in 2003 with Andriy Shevchenko in the team. After the victory Shevchenko flew to Kyiv to put his medal by the grave of his former manager.[114]
The manager of A.C. Milan at the time was Carlo Ancelotti.
