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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

BITESIZE | Jon Dahl Tomasson: Carlo Ancelotti could get under the skin of a player

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s story comes from Jon Dahl Tomasson, who describes how Carlo Ancelotti was the ultimate man manager at AC Milan, soothing the egos of superstars like Pippo Inzaghi, Andrea Pirlo, Andriy Shevchenko, Rui Costa and Kaka.

Listen to the original full episodes:

Jon Dahl Tomasson: How Ancelotti Managed Milan’s Egos - The Big Interview with Graham Hunter | Acast

Jon Dahl Tomasson: The Secrets of Denmark’s Success - The Big Interview with Graham Hunter | Acast



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0:00.0

Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode

0:19.9

you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

0:25.0

All of them come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter,

0:29.0

which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.0

Angelouche.

0:37.0

Anjalotti.

0:41.0

One of the things he had as a coach that was really difficult, he says the most difficult, was having to manage upwards, to manage

0:51.7

Berlusconi. We would come in and tell him this formation, this team.

0:57.0

Carla's about to win the probably, as we record this weekend against Espagnale probably when the

1:07.7

title is made to make it all five big leagues in Europe is won at least once.

1:17.9

He carries a repetition of being, I've often used the phrase myself, a player whisper. He can get great players one on one and convince them and bring better performances out of them and he's clearly a good manager

1:27.6

Sometimes people dispute whether he's super elite in terms of the actual coaching and analytics of a match.

1:36.0

These are millimeter differences I'm talking about.

1:38.0

I'm not being rude about him.

1:40.0

How much of this is describing the man that you work for?

1:43.0

First of all,

1:45.0

co-win with those big egos in those big clubs,

1:49.0

the way he men is that.

1:51.0

He needs to be clever.

1:52.0

They need to be very, very smart because big players are not easy players to have the biggest egos in the world. They're only thinking me me me. How can I become the most important player and all those egos.

2:05.3

So did I sit off, martini, Billy Costa curta,

2:10.6

everybody wants to be the impaled player.

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