Carlo Ancelotti’s week focus (1)

Terry's stay is grreat news for Carleto

Carlo Ancelotti focus is a weekly post all about Ancelotti’s latest news, results, and press review……

So Chelsea won the 2009 World Football Challenge trophy during their preseason preparation in US, beating AC Milan, Inter Milan (yes he beat Mourinho), and Club America (Mexican football team). Also Carleto English handling is improving and if you recognized Ancelotti’s recent press conferences as a Chelsea Manager were combined with humor and laugh.

Ancelotti begins his Blue adventure

He looks cool in Blue

So Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea story begins with alot of enthusiasim and optimism, Ancelotti first press conference was in English and started with soft charming joke about Terry captiancy which broke the ice with the English press. As we know this is Ancelotti first job outside Italy and tell now he is doing good job.

Yuri Zhirkov is the latest recruitement to Ancelotti squad from CSKA Moscow for £18 million, alongside Daniel Sturridge (Man City) and Ross Turnbull (Middlesbrough). Ancelotti want to add creativity into Chelsea squad (like Ribery or Alonso) which are difficult targets to obtain by Chelsea.

English Premier League manager list for 2009-10 (Part 1)

Now its football holidays, by next July teams going to start their pre-season preparation below the latest list of English Premier League Managers for 2009-10 season Part one for ten Premier League teams:

Arsene Wenger: (Arsenal/France/ 59 years old)

The French Professor has a contract with The Gunners until 2011, this summer he turned down Florentino Perez (Real Madrid President) offer to coach the White club. Proving his loyalty and belief in his project with Arsenal despite the doubters criticism he received this year (4 years without a trophy), Arsenal Board have their full trust in Wenger leadership and management.

This season Wenger guide Arsenal to 4th place in the League (W :: 20 D :: 12 :: L :: 6), also reach the semi-finals of Champions League and FA Cup and eliminated by Manchester United and Chelsea respectively.

Click here to see Arsene Wenger profile.

Managers latest transfers

 

 

Below the latest Managers transfers brief…..

 

Didier Deschamps (France / 40 years old)

Sign two years contract with O.Marsielle, to take Belgium Gerets place

Frank Rijkaard (Holland / 46 years old)

Sign two years contract with Galatasaray taking over Bulent Korkmaz post

Click here to see Rijkaard profile

Steve Bruce (England/ 48 years old)

Sign 3 years contract with Sunderland replacing caretaker Ricky Sbragia. Bruce was Wigan gaffer

Official: Chelsea new manager is Ancelotti

 

Blues I'm here

 

Finally Chelsea-Ancelotti story ended happily, it is official Carlo Ancelotti is Chelsea new manager for the next three years (£ 6.5 million per year) and will start next 1st July, 2009. According to Chelsea FC website:

Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce that Carlo Ancelotti has agreed to become our new manager. He has signed a three year contract and will start on July 1, 2009.

 

Chelsea FC Official Website

Ancelotti if the figures up was accurate will be the highest paid manager in the English Premier League, and now the second Italian to manage an English club as Zola is currently West Ham manager. Maybe the number will jump to three if the reports suggestion that Roberto Mancini on verge to coach Sunderland.

Ancelotti left Milan, Leonardo the new tactician

Milan's new manager

 

Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani confirms that AC Milan terminate the remaining one year in Ancelotti’s contract by mutual agreement:

Eight trophies in eight years. Our friendship and his closeness to this club will continue. Let’s hope that, in a few years’ time, we can see him on our bench once again and maybe win more Champions Leagues with Carletto in charge.

Guardiola enter the Elite club

Dream Team architecture

Josep Guardiola won the treble with Barcelona (La Liga – Copa del Rey – Champions League), also he is the sixth man to won the Champions League as a player and a coach another great milestone to be added for Pep Guardiola wonderful debut season as a senior coach.

For sure Pep’s team already leveled or even surpass Cruyff Dream Team (1990-94). Again Congratulation Pep Guardiola and below the list of the people who won the Champions League as player and coach:

Valdano: three candidates for Real Madrid hot seat

Jorge Valdano, for sure will be back with Perez team to lead Real Madrid revoluaiton said that there are 3 managers is listed one of them will be next Real Madrid manager also he said that all three candidates are coaching now, so if Valdano words prove to be right, Laudrup is out from the list for sure

below I listed possible candidates under Valdano criteria, after removing Jose Mourinho and Michael Laudrup:

• Hugo Sanchez (Mexico/Almeria)
• Lauren Blanc (France/Bordeaux)
• Carlo Ancelotti (Italy/AC Milan)
• Luciano Spalletti (Italy/AS Roma)
• Manuel Pellegrini (Chile/Villarreal)
• Michel (Spain/Getafe)
• Arsene Wenger (France/Arsenal)

Italian Serie A managers (updated)

The Complete list of The Serie A managers:

Atalanta: Luigi Del Neri (Italy :: since June 2007)

Bologna: Giuseppe Papadopulo (Italy :: since 14th April 2009)

Cagliari: Massimiliano Allegri (Italy :: since 29 May 2008)

Catania: Walter Zenga (Italy :: 1st April 2008)

Chievo Verona: Domenico Di Carlo (Italy :: 4th November 2008)

Fiorentina: Cesare Prandelli (Italy :: since the start of 2005-06 season)

Genoa: Gian Piero Gasperini (Italy :: since 2006)

Inter Milan: Jose Mourinho (Portugal :: since 2008 summer)

Juventus: Ciro Ferrera (Italy :: since May 2009 as a caretaker)

Lazio: Delio Rossi (Italy :: since 2005)

Lecce: Luigi De Canio (Italy :: since March 2009)

AC Milan: Carlo Ancelotti (Italy :: since 2001)

Napoli: Roberto Donadoni (Italy ::  since March 2009)

Palermo: Davide Ballardini (Italy ::  since September 2008)

Reggina: Nevio Orlandi (Italy :: since January 2009)

AS Roma: Luciano Spalletti (Italy :: since 2005)

Sampdoria: Walter Mazzarri (Italy :: since May 2007)

Siena: Marco Giampaolo (Italy :: since June 2008)

Torino: Giancarlo Camolese (Italy :: since March 2009)

Udinese: Pasquale Marino (Italy :: since 2007)

Free Football Managers – part one

 

The European Football season is in the final stages and the holidays looming closer and closer and big changes will be rang in several clubs; in this post I’m going to list free coaches and managers:

Michael Laudrup (Denmark :: age 44)

The Danish maestro is free now, his last post was Spartak Moscow coach but he was sacked last April after losing to Dinamo Moscow (3-0), he had a successful campgnes with Brondby (2002-06) and Getafe (2007-08). rumors suggested that Laudrup is a candidate to take Wolfsburg hot seat (he ruled out that because language barriers) as Magath set to be Schalke 04 new manager and some reports stated that he snub an offer from Ajax, many pundits convince that Laudrup targeting a Spanish return !!

 

Roberto Mancini (Italy :: age 44)

Was away from football since Inter sack him last summer 2008, always linked with English teams now his agent said anything possible when he was asked about his client move to coach AS Roma. Italian teams many predict will have major changes in coaches so an Italian job for Mancini is in the horizon.

 

Eric Gerets (Belgium :: age 55)

By the end of this season he will leave Marseille, Gerets linked with Bayern Munich and with Atletico Madrid also could be attractive to the former Belgium defender, but reports claimed that Gerets near to be Al-Hilal from Saudi Arabia new coach.

Marco Van Basten (Holland :: age 44)

The former Dutch star quit Ajax lately, Van Basten continouly linked with AC Milan post to replace Carlo Ancelotti but still nothing clear about Ancelotti (his contract run until 2010) himself position whether he will go to Chelsea or not.

Frank Rijkaard (Holland :: age 46)

Following his Barcelona exit Rijkaard still free from football duties, now he set to make way back into coaching business as report link him to several teams: (AC Milan, Chelsea, Manchster City, Real Madrid, and he snub Ajax offer).