The Italian, though, insisted he remained friends with Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the former president and chief executive respectively, and that the Bayern coach, Thomas Tuchel, would think he was on the good side too as the pair prepare for the most tense ofties, which starts level at 2-2. "Today, we enjoy; tomorrow, we will worry," he said.
Over 34 years as a coach, Ancelotti completed the collection: four European Cups, leagues in Italy, England, France, Spain and Germany, all while working with the biggest footballers and toughest owners too. There is a line of his that says a coach's job is to keep president and players happy and on side, a task he must manage "gently", which helps explain his success that unique capacity to handle everyone from Cristiano Ronaldo, Marco van Basten and Zinedine Zidane to Silvio Berlusconi, Roman Abramovich and Nasser al-Khelaifi, Aurelio de Laurentiis, Florentino Pérez and the Bayern grandees.
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