Carlo Ancelotti Has To Win Triple To Complete Last Real Madrid Quest
Not a single Real Madrid coach has ever won the Triple Crown—king of Europe and La Liga.
His name will go down in the pantheon of legendary Real Madrid bench figures when Carlo Ancelotti permanently departs the team. All he needs to do now is win it all at once. He has made Los Blancos champions of everything possible to win.
The legendary Italian will cement his status as the greatest Real Madrid coach of all time if he manages to complete the trinity, a feat no other Real Madrid coach has ever completed. He has to win the Copa Del Rey, the UEFA Champions League, and La Liga to do this.
After a 12-year break, Ancelotti won the Champions League against Atletico Madrid in his debut season. Gareth Bale’s game-winning goal helped the team win the Copa Del Rey. Nevertheless, Atletico won the league.
With four games remaining, he dropped three straight games without a win, disappointingly keeping the title just out of reach. They ended third, three points behind their intercity rivals, after drawing with Valencia and Valladolid and suffering a decisive loss to Celta Vigo.
With a goal from Vinicius Jr. against Liverpool in 2022, the Champions League was won handily. However, the Copa Del Rey was lost in the round of 16, when Athletic Bilbao upset the odds with a last-minute goal from Berenguer.
Zidane was incapable of doing it.
Even with the presence of Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Sergio Ramos, Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Karim Benzema, Zidane’s run of three consecutive Champions League victories hardly even came close to a triple.
For what reason? In his first season, the squad was eliminated due to an offside goal in Cadiz, while Celta Vigo and Leganes eliminated Real Madrid in the domestic cup quarterfinals.
Their fiercest opponents, Barcelona, won the Copa Del Rey, but Zidane’s strongest team, which consisted of a very strong double unit, won La Liga and the Champions League.
An opportunity to imitate Pep Guardiola
Being the first team in history to win every trophy in the span of one and a half seasons, Barcelona’s 2008–2009 campaign is regarded by many as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, teams in history.
With the leadership of Lionel Messi, Thierry Henry, and Samuel Eto’o, as well as the management of Xavi, Iniesta, and Sergio Busquets, and the innovative ideas of Pep Guardiola, they won all six trophies that were available in the 2008–09 season, including the Champions League, La Liga, the Copa Del Rey, the Supercopa de Espana, and the UEFA Super Cup.
Nobody in Spain had ever achieved such a historic pinnacle accomplishment. Only Bayern Munich has achieved the feat outside of Iberia. They took this action in 2020, or around 11 years later.
Carlo Ancelotti keeps trying to achieve what Madrid has been so terribly denied because of this. It’s an attempt to imitate Guardiola and Barcelona and deny them the pride they have maintained for the past fifteen years.
Accordingly, the most well-known team in Spain is in a good position to win La Liga and is a strong candidate for the Champions League alongside Manchester City. Is he now able to go where no one has gone before, with three more seasons ahead of him following his renewal?
