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The quadruple is still alive as Paris prepares to host the Champions League final, but only when it comes to Carlo Ancelotti’s pursuit of a fourth European Cup. The Real Madrid coach can eclipse Liverpool’s Bob Paisley and his Madrid predecessor, Zinedine Zidane, by becoming the first to win four Champions Leagues as a manager if the LaLiga champions beat Liverpool in Stade de France on Saturday.
History awaits for Ancelotti, the 62-year-old Italian manager who also won two European Cups as a midfielder in Arrigo Sacchi’s great AC Milan side in 1989 and 1990, but there is no sense of personal legacy being a driving force for him this weekend.
“He couldn’t care less about the record books,” professor Chris Brady, who co-authored Quiet Leadership, Ancelotti’s book about management and coaching, told ESPN. “He knows about it, but he just shrugs his shoulders when you mention it to him. In Carlo’s mind, only one thing matters. When I ask him what his job is, he simply says, ‘to keep the president happy,’ and he has done that with Florentino Perez at Real, with Silvio Berlusconi at Milan and Roman Abramovich at Chelsea.
“It’s not about Carlo, and it never has been.”
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The same applies this weekend in Paris. Here is a coach who has won as many European Cups as Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp combined, more than Jose Mourinho, Sir Alex Ferguson, Vicente del Bosque, Ottmar Hitzfeld and Johan Cruyff, But, despite standing on the verge of becoming the first to win it four times, the prematch build-up is centred not on Ancelotti but on Karim Benzema and Mohamed Salah, Luka Modric and Virgil van Dijk — the great players who will decide the outcome on the pitch.
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There has always been something understated about Ancelotti despite his stellar record. Some…
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