Carlo Ancelotti | Brazil manager

AfonsoAlves said:
11 juventus players starting in the 2006 WC final?
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Buffon, Cannavaro, Zambrotta, Camoranesi, Thuram, Vieira started, you're right. Plus Trezeguet, Del Piero off the bench, so 8 players in total. My bad
AfonsoAlves said:
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Cafu - Nesta - Stam - Maldini
Gattuso - Pirlo - Ambrosini
Kaka ------Seedorf
Shevchenko

With Inzaghi, Gilardino, Jankulovski, Kaladze, Simic, Rui Costa, Vieri on the bench, is a pretty insane team.

Should have won more league titles.
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It should have, but put it in context and it's clear why they didn't. In 04/05 they essentially didn't particularly care about winning the league again - that season also featured a Juventus-Milan 0-0 that had Milan players outright accuse the ref of having been bought after the match btw - and in 05/06 they took half a season to get going because their heads were still in Istanbul. They finished with 88 points, Juventus with 91

And, again, all that ignores Calciopoli
 
AfonsoAlves said:
------------Dida--------
Cafu - Nesta - Stam - Maldini
Gattuso - Pirlo - Ambrosini
Kaka ------Seedorf
Shevchenko

With Inzaghi, Gilardino, Jankulovski, Kaladze, Simic, Rui Costa, Vieri on the bench, is a pretty insane team.

Should have won more league titles.
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I think that it was a team that looked a bit better on paper than it did in reality; particularly the back four. Obviously they were still very, very good, but on paper you have four of the best defenders of the last 30 years. In reality though, Maldini and Cafu were pretty old and declining, Stam was also getting on, had lost some of his pace and was often injured. While Nesta was still excellent but had lots of niggling injuries and was not quite the same player as he was at Lazio. Due to their age and injuries, they each only played about half the available games, with good but not exceptional players like Simic, Kaladze, Costacurta (aged nearly 40) and Serginho playing about half.
 
If the Saudi talks are true... my estimation of Carlo Ancelotti as a man just fecking plummeted.
 
It's finally confirmed after so much speculation. I hope he does well there, incredible manager and by all accounts a fantastic person.
 
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