Carlo Ancelotti makes firm statement amid ongoing Brazil speculation
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has categorically denied any interest in becoming the new Brazil national team boss, insisting there hasn’t been any contact from the country’s football federation.
Ancelotti has been one of several names linked with the job since former coach Tite left in the wake of a disappointing World Cup quarter-final exit earlier this month.
The Italian fielded questions a few days before Christmas about the possibility of taking the Brazil job. He said he was interested at this moment but didn’t rule it anything out in the future.
Now, more questions on the same topic have yielded an much more emphatic answer.
“I don't know, I was never approached by them and the Brazil Federation never called me. I just want to stay at Real Madrid,” Ancelotti said.
“I'll never ask Real Madrid to let me leave this club.”
Ancelotti, who has won the Champions League in each of his two separate spells in charge of Los Blancos, is under contract at the Bernabeu.
Having previously been a two-time European Cup winner as a player, he embarked on what soon became a stellar coaching career in the mid-1990s when he was appointed by Parma.
Ancelotti was sought out by Juventus in 1999, before going on to enjoy great success in charge of AC Milan, the club where he had previously won so much as a player. Success in England and France followed with Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain respectively, before Real came along in 2013.
Don Carlo, as he is affectionately nicknamed, delivered La Decima at the first time of asking – the club’s elusive 10th European Cup/Champions League title.
After spells at Bayern Munich, Napoli and, strangely, Everton, he returned to Madrid in 2021, winning a La Liga and Champions League double in his first season back with the club.