Carlo Ancelotti is the joking type, obviously. The Real Madrid coach has revealed that one of his jokes, made to the entire club locker room, almost backfired on him.
Carlo Ancelotti and Real Madrid got their heads back together this Saturday. The Spaniards, beaten by AC Milan in the Champions League this week, made short work of Osasuna, despite injuries to Rodrygo, Militao and Vazquez. Enough to give a little breathing room to the team, stuck in a crisis for several weeks already. In an interview with the newspaper L’Equipe this week, the Italian tactician returned to his management of the locker room.
He notably gave a few anecdotes about his experience at Real Madrid, but one of them stands out. It all starts with an observation: Carlo Ancelotti is amazed by the relationship between players of the current generation and their phones. “There is another disease, addiction to their phones. I have to fight that”even estimated the 65-year-old coach. Enough to give rise to the idea of a little joke, which he finally tried in front of his players.
“Are you kidding?”
It all starts when Carlo Ancelotti discovers his players on their phones after a session or a meeting. A little tired, the Italian then raised his voice slightly. “One day, as a joke, I told them: ‘I’m tired of seeing your phones in the locker room. From now on, there won’t be any,'” Ancelotti said. ‘When you arrive at training, you leave it’ The players said to me: ‘Are you kidding?’ “No, I’m very serious. From tomorrow, it will be like this.” And I left”, he continued.
Obviously, he didn’t have to wait long before getting a reaction. “After practice, the captain’s commission came into my office: ‘You can’t do this. This is crazy, this can’t happen!'”they declared, under the stunned eyes of Carlo Ancelotti who then announced that it was only a little joke. Don’t touch the phone!
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