Carlo Ancelotti on VAR, Too Many Games, Racism, Maldini, Business, Italy and Madrid, and Brazil

Interviewed by Il Giornale, the Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, spoke in the round about the moment of global football, however, focusing on Milan’s choice to say goodbye to Maldini and Massara, a choice considered “ungrateful”.

WAS – “VAR has removed the exclusive power from the referee, making decisions that are not in line with the spirit and actual reality of the game. Handball, for example. There is no objectivity but personal decisions. VAR is used badly, indeed it is too used. What to change? First of all, the formation of the International Board, with the inclusion of former football players and coaches who know the game well and better. On offside, for example, a knee, a foot cannot invalidate the action “

TOO MANY GAMES – “My players finish the season with 73 matches between Liga, cups and the World Cup. From December 30th to March 12th we played non-stop, except for one week, moving between Morocco and Arabia. It’s not possible to continue like this. UEFA launches the new Champions League with more teams, Fifa launches the World Cup with more nations, the leagues promote the final of the national Super Cup with four teams. Either they agree with each other or the health of the players no longer matters.”

RACISM – “I can’t accept that the stadium has become the most hostile environment of everything and everyone, I can’t accept this climate of hatred, for the skin, for religion, for the ethnicity of a player or a coach. In the four years lived in England I have no memories of insults to the person, boos yes, choirs too, but never a personal attack, hatred must be fought, it will be a long process”.

MALDINI – “I learned in Madrid that the history of a club must always be respected, here Di Stefano, Amancio, Gento, Puskas are still exclusive values ​​towards which we have reverence. To preserve history at the highest levels, the memory of the past, what happened with Maldini demonstrates a lack of historical culture, of respect for Milan’s tradition. If it’s true that history doesn’t win, it’s also true that history teaches how to win.”

BUSINESS – “Football clubs that think they do business above sporting spirit are doomed to failure. Patronage no longer has the meaning it used to but profiteering is bad”

ITALY AND MADRID – “Traveling around the world has taught me how to live. Italy is the best place but Madrid is the ideal city, London and Paris are fantastic but too demanding, Monaco has its beautiful face, Canada is nature and freedom to move around without pain in the ass . I like to live and not survive”.

BRAZIL – “I feel good in Madrid, I have a splendid relationship with Florentino Perez, life here is magical. I don’t stop and then it’s really difficult to find anything better than Real.”