League title No.5
Carlo Ancelotti needs only a single point from his Real Madrid side when they take on Espanyol on Saturday to make history and claim the Spanish league title. With just five games to go in the Spanish season, Los Blancos are on the verge of winning La Liga and with it a historic moment for their esteemed manager.
After taking over as Madrid manager in the summer, following the departure of Zinedine Zidane, Ancelotti has guided his side back to the summit of Spanish football and currently sit 15 points ahead of both Barcelona and Sevilla in joint second, while defending champions Atletico Madrid sit in fourth place, two points below them.
Real Madrid need just one point to win the Spanish league title on Saturday…
If they do, Carlo Ancelotti will surely become the pic.twitter.com/hnHArccTXV
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However, while the achievement will be a moment of sheer joy for Madrid fans as the club claims its 35th Spanish league title, it will also be a special moment for Ancelotti too. Upon getting his side over the line, the Italian manager will become the first manager to win a league title in what have come to be known as the five major divisions of European football.
Ancelotti’s march to a fifth league title – in his fifth European nation
Ancelotti won his first league title when he became manager of AC Milan in 2001, when the Italian giants picked up the Serie A title in 2004, in a successful managerial stint which saw the club win two Champions League titles as well as the Italian Cup. His next league title came six years later, when Ancelotti took over at Chelsea for just two years but still managed to claim the Premier League title and the FA Cup.
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The Italian manager’s next league title came in France, when Ancelotti swapped London for Paris and enjoyed a two-year stint at Paris Saint-Germain, which produced a single Ligue 1 title in the 2012/13 season. The Italian tactician was then tempted to Spain, but his first stint at Real Madrid failed to produce a league title, despite claiming a Spanish Cup and Champions League along the way.
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Following Los Blancos, Ancelotti then made the move to Germany, when he took over from Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich and duly won the 2016/17 Bundesliga title with relative ease, alongside two German Super Cups. However, like his time in London, Ancelotti didn’t stick around too long in Bavaria and left after just a year.
What followed was three years of relatively little success, where Ancelotti spent a season at Napoli and then at Everton, where it seemed as though his lust for league titles had finally met its match. However, following Zidane’s departure from Madrid in the summer of 2021, the Italian coach jumped at the chance to return to Spain for the one league title that had evaded him the first time. And now, surely, Ancelotti will finally be able to claim a fifth league title in as many countries.
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