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Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid coach, highlighted that this season “will be a more competitive League” than previous ones, highlighting the level of the Atlético de Madrid and ensuring that the team that wins can do so “with less than 90 points.”
“It will be a more competitive League. With the Barcelona and Atléticowho is also going to fight because he has the resources to try to win this competition. It’s going to be a very entertaining League until the end. And I think that this year the League can be won with less than 90 points,” he commented at a press conference.
Ancelotti, in his penultimate press conference of 2024, before hosting Sevilla this Sunday at the Santiago Bernabeu, took stock of the year.
“The happiest moment… There are many. It has been a fantastic, unforgettable year. Unrepeatable? I don’t knowHey, I think it can be repeated, if we bring out our best version because we have a very high-level squad. The European Cup is the happiest moment. The saddest… We have not lost many games this year, but it could be the defeat against Barcelona here at the Bernabéu”he pointed out.
“I give you a note of outstanding taking into account the difficulties we have had. We have won five titles. “Next year is always the same, compete, fight, fight and win the ‘Champions’ again,” he added.
“TO Santa Claus I can’t ask you not to receive criticism in 2025. Criticism is sometimes also a gift. They are acceptable when you don’t do things the way you have to do them; It is nothing new,” he concluded.
He italian technician He answered if it meant more wear and tear on him as a coach to attend to the media on more than 100 occasions during the season compared to the players’ calendar.
“Obviously the footballers’ schedule is worse. The press conference is a sometimes entertaining moment as well, it is not difficult for me to do press conferences. Of these thousand questions, 10% can be a little ugly at times, but, in the end, we all had a pretty good time,” he said.
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Furthermore, he referred to “confidence” as a key aspect for footballers to show their best version, as is the case of the last two Brazilians recognized with a great individual award: kaka by winning the ‘Ballon d’Or’ in 2007 and Vinícius with the ‘The Best’ he received last Tuesday.
“I have given them both confidence. When you give a talented player confidence, he brings out his best level. It is impossible to give confidence to everyone, because it means making them play when they are not at their best level. I’ve only given you this. And, later, you win because you have the quality to play like the best in the world,” he said.
