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A phone call that never came and a lie via text. These are the reasons for the breakdown of the twenty-year relationship between Carlo Ancelotti and Rino Gattuso. Yesterday the two met in the Super Cup semi-final with Real Madrid beating Valencia on penalties. A cold hug before the kick-off and nothing more, what happened previously for Ancelotti was too painful.
The background told by Corriere della Sera goes back to the times of the change on the Napoli bench. Ancelotti had learned that his friend Gattuso was running to take his place and therefore had sent a message to his former player: “Did De Laurentiis call you?”. The answer is firm and negative: “No, I would tell you if that were the case”. But in reality the president had already contacted him and a few days later, following the 4-0 defeat against Genk in the Champions League, De Laurentiis announced the arrival of Gattuso. No phone calls to Ancelotti, no confrontation. In Castelvolturno the two met without speaking, with Gattuso avoiding contact, amplifying the anger of his former coach.
Three years have passed since that day and relations have not been restored, on the contrary, Ancelotti underlined the “personal problems” with Gattuso in the press conference, making public a break that makes noise. And to think that a phone call would have been enough.
