Real Madrid football coach Carlo Ancelotti on Monday praised the Greek American basketball star, Yannis Antetokounmpo, for his insistence last week that “there is no failure in sports.”
Despite the Bucks leading the eastern region standings with the best record in the regular league, Antetokounmpo and his companions bid farewell to the “Playoff” from the first round after the series ended against the Miami Heat 1-4, losing last Wednesday 126-128 after extension.
The Greek giant believed that “there is no failure in sports. There are good days and bad days.”
Ancelotti told reporters, “What this player said was amazing and I have nothing to add, and I think 100 percent like him.”
“In sports you can’t talk about failure, in life you can’t talk about failure. Failure only happens when you don’t try to do something as best you can, that’s failure.”
“When you have a clear conscience, and you try to do your best, it will never be a failure.”
Real Madrid, the Spanish league champion, ranks second in the standings, 11 points behind rivals Barcelona, leading, with six stages remaining until the end of the season.
On the other hand, the royal club reached the semi-finals of the Champions League competition, where it will meet Manchester City, England, and next Saturday it will also face Osasuna in the Spanish Cup final.
And Ancelotti added, “In sport, you lose more than you win. It’s true, I have a stomach full of titles, but if I had to put the cups I lost there, it wouldn’t be a stomach, it would be a home.”
“Those words, and not only in relation to sports, were amazing,” he added.
2023-05-01 15:47:00
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