Ancelotti has completed a dream 2014 with Madrid: the Champions League, European Super Cup, Club World Cup and Copa del Rey were all lifted in the same calendar year. Never before has Madrid won four titles in a year in their 112-year history. It’s down to Carletto, the man who brought the European Cup back to Real Madrid after 12 years. It was key. That gave him the chance to also win the European Super Cup and Club World Cup. Now, Madrid matches Milan on the number of international titles won, with 20, and moves above Barcelona, who’ve won 19.
This year will be a difficult one to forget for Madrid fans. The stats will be cemented in the history books: 63 matches with 51 wins (22 of them consecutive), five draws and seven defeats. With 178 goals scored (2.83 per game). To win 51 games and score 178 goals are records for a calendar year in Spanish football. It exceeds the 49 wins and 175 goals Barça scored (between Guardiola and Tito Vilanova) in 2012.
In 16 months at the club, Ancelotti, the man who brought peace to Real Madrid, has won four titles, more than Mourinho (three in three years), who brought about the club’s most turbulent period. “The team of Ancelotti is a masterpiece,” Arrigo Sacchi told Mediaset. “It is a humble, intelligent and generous person.” And in its relaxed personality lies its success, as it did with Del Bosque. “Now we are a family”, agree all the players, who play on in a state of bliss. The road for the Italian has not been an easy one. He ended up sorting out the difficult goalkeeper situation: now Casillas is the only player in history who has lifted all the titles as captain. He brought Di María back into the fold last season and worked him into a 4-3-3, which helped Madrid become champions of Europe. And when that was dismantled, with Di María and Xabi Alonso leaving, he reassembled everything with Isco and James transforming the side, while Kroos looks like an improved version of Xabi.
The prize. Yesterday Ancelotti travelled to Canada to enjoy a small holiday. The club will get on with renewing his contract in January. They should confirm the extension before the end of the season. The coach made his position clear before leaving Morocco: “For me, I would renew until 2030.”
The immediate future is equally as exciting for him. After surpassing the Spanish record of 18 straight wins achieved by the Barcelona side of Rijkaard in 2005-06, he will look to beat the Guinness World Record of Brazilian side Coritiba (24 straight wins in 2011). At the moment Madrid have won 22 in a row. To break the record Madrid must win matches against Valencia at the Mestalla (January 4), against Atlético in the Copa del Rey at the Calderón (January 7) and against Espanyol in the league (at the Bernabéu on January 10, when the Club World Cup will be presented to the fans).
He has the best win percentage in the history of the club
Ancelotti is the Madrid coach with the best win percentage thanks to coming out on top in 79.5 per cent of his matches in charge. The other best win percentages of coaches who have been in charge for over one hundred matches are, in order: Toshack (59 wins out of 100, 59 per cent), Molowny (107 of 183, 58.4 per cent), Boskov (80 of 139, 57.5 per cent), Di Stéfano (72 of 129, 55.8 per cent), Del Bosque (133 of 246, 54 per cent) and Miljanic (67 of 134, 50 per cent).
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