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A team that resigned itself to floating.
Mark Renton, in that cinematic masterpiece that is Trainspotting, stated: “I don’t know if I like to cheer on a winning team “. Here is if we think of today Tobias Jones, well known journalist but above all a great Everton fanWe imagine him that way, struggling with an identity crisis, if not a psychoanalytic session. On the other hand, the English writer, questioned by Avvenire when Ancelotti’s treatment had already begun to give its best results, had frankly confessed his despair:
“everything is fine but I’m nervous: I wouldn’t know who I really am if Everton started winning. “.
This is a bit of the mood that Carletto woke up in the historic typhus strip, of which Jones was the spokesperson: the typical sensation of a music lover who witnesses the prominence of the group that he had encountered years before in a club in the deepest province, or that of a regular reader who learns that the book by that Author followed for years, including in suburban bowl presentations, he was nominated for a prestigious award. Let’s imagine Jones, then, as he keeps a photo of a Moyes on duty and tries to put on paper all the fears that take hold of him:
“Cheering for Everton has always been a tragedy, but now that Ancelotti is here everything changes, and the very nature of the fan also changes: those who are not used to dreams just don’t know how to behave.”
At times he remembers what happened to the Neapolitan fans in the time of Rafa Benítez: ADL, tired of the provincial air that Mazzarri also embodied, decided to focus on an international coach with a Champions League on the notice board. After decades of failures and minor series, Napoli would have had to reappear arrogantly and under the banner of a “champagne football” on the international stage (a leitmotif that was repeated a few seasons later with Carlo Ancelotti, the replacement for the old bank in the most famous Italian football suit).
Both purposes, however, collided with the atavistic “Dry” well rooted between the blades of grass of the San Paolo (bad luck, for those who are not used to the Neapolitan vocabulary): we continue talking about the only team that has not managed to hit the championship with 91 points or, as it happened under the guidance of the Spanish coach, that has not managed to qualify for the eighth Champions League final having scored 12.
Ancelotti’s adventure in Naples was one of Carlo’s worst as a coach. At the base of “failure”, too many misunderstandings, on the field and beyond (Photo by Francesco Pecoraro / Getty Images)
But coming back to us, Ancelotti at Everton has found a company with a history of more than a century: Founded in 1878, when it was baptized with the name of Santo Domingo, the club is so old that it was born 10 years before the foundation of the national championship (that is why, beyond the most recent results, Everton has always represented an icon English football). However, not even the track record languishes, being able to count with 9 championships, 5 English cups, 9 Charity Shield and a cup of cups, being the last national success, however, dating back to 1987.
From here on down slow decline who, especially in the 2000s, saw him succumb to Liverpool’s red tide.
So based on this season’s results, it appears that Jones’ concerns may have a real basis. After a series of three consecutive victories, also against opponents of the caliber of Chelsea, Leicester and Arsenal, the Candy Last night they beat a very tough Sheffield United with the score 0-1 in the toughest and most English matches. Result, second place in the classification just two bodies from their cousins in red (who, however, count one game less).
To better analyze Ancelotti’s trajectory, however, it is necessary to return to December 21, 2019, the day on which he is called to replace Duncan Ferguson, who in turn took over from Marco Silva’s bankruptcy management. Reggiolo’s coach, fresh from the disastrous campaign in Naples and handed over by many to the avenue of sunset, returns to England accepting a very special bench – especially for him: Everton are in fact three points from relegation in a crisis of game, results and identity. In short, not really a stylish comeback for those abroad, last time, he had conquered a historian double with Chelsea.
Italians do better and Chelsea knows something: Carlo triumphs here in 2010 (Photo by Shaun Botterill / Getty Images)
However, on the other hand, the challenge runs the risk of becoming one of the most challenging and courageous of his coaching career; Also because the goal set by the ambitious Iranian owner Farhad Moshiri foresees a long, solid (and expensive) growth of the club: first of all the results in the field, but meanwhile the global development of the brand that happens above all from the construction of an impressive new stadium. A project of 500 million pounds, with a very innovative character, which aims to remodel the port area of the city and which, perhaps for the first time, is planned in synergy with the local community:
three years of intense confrontation that resulted in the consultation of 43,000 people, obtaining a positive opinion of 98 percent. Therefore, not the usual desert cathedral with multi-colored seats and no identity but, on the contrary, a very specific work from the materials (such as brick and steel) and from the location (the heart of Liverpool and more. there. the distant suburbs).
Returning to the field, Ancelotti immediately manages to recover the team and meanwhile he tries, experiments, both in the modules and in the players used: starting from a three-man defense, he closes with a rather unscrupulous 4-4-2 and on purely offensive wings , like Bernard or Walcott. After filming, Ancelotti and his team manage to identify the weak points of the workforce, filled thanks to the important economic availability of ownership: therefore, during the session of the summer transfer market, the priority is to strengthen the median, which is very sharp and not suitable to support the many offensive players in the squad.
The 47 million euros invested in the contracting of Allan and Doucoure, fundamental pawns for tactical balance and that they allow you to turn towards 4-3-3 (despite having Everton, this season, alternating different patterns of play). On the other hand, we know the Ancelotti school, they do not impose modules carved in marble but rather adapt to the available material: that is why it is necessary to put the other great summer purchase in the best conditions, perhaps the least strategic but the one that immediately achieves the most. ignite the spirits Candy: James Rodriguez. After being more or less close to hugging him at Napoli, he finally returns to the only coach capable of making him express all his talent.
Carlo Ancelotti and James Rodriguez: Madrid, Munich and finally Liverpool (Photo by Bradley Collyer – Pool / Getty Images)
On paper, the ideal eleven is taking shape as, armored by a renewed midfield, the Colombian and Richarlison on the other side of the field are free to show all their skills. And it is here that the technician’s hand is clearly seen, which can find the perfect offensive terminal able to capitalize on your bets.
Dominic Calvert-LewinIn fact, the footballer who has conquered the cover of his team, before the arrival of Ancelotti, is on the list of many raw talents about to flourish, but always strictly anonymous (or behind, to be more polite) . He perfectly represents the condition of many talents on the Everton squad of recent years – a collection of potential champions, some bought for their weight in gold, who have never found a way to truly prevail.
For Calvert-Lewin, and by his own admission, the discourse is different; on the other hand, 19 trophies on a coach’s wall will mean something. Here then is that Ancellotti “changes the sporting life” of the attacker, which at this stage of the season has already scored 11 goals and the call for the selection, immediately seasoned with 2 centers in as many games. Not bad for a young man, but not very young anymore, of the class of 97, who at 23 had not yet shown his true potential.
Calvert-Lewin jokes with Ancelotti as he takes the ball home after his Carabao Cup hat trick against West Ham (Photo by Alex Livesey / Getty Images)
To describe it in the words of another Ancelotti, Davide:
“(Calvert-Lewin) is a special player, he has fantastic skills, he can make a difference in a tough league like the Premier League. Physically he is very strong, difficult to find a better one from this point of view. He is at the beginning of his career, but he has everything to reach great levels. He has a special ability that belongs to all great talents: he knows his body very well. Cristiano Ronaldo, for example, is such a player ”.
To those who asked him his secret, on the 9th he responded by praising Ancelotti: “transfer positivity, reassure everyone. It helps you and makes you responsible “. And indeed, it will be trivial to say, but the current star of Everton is Carlo, a coach able to mark a global change of pace in the club: tactics and techniques certainly, but also cultural and human, as they have learned to understand in the city. In just over a year Ancelotti once again showed the extraordinary peculiarities that have always distinguished him off the pitch, such as intelligence, subtlety, simplicity and above all empathy.
The last episode in order of time, with which he definitely conquered the blue half of Liverpool, refers to the spring lockout: the technician decides to call Mark personally, a policeman and Everton sympathizer struck first by a motor pathology and then by the coronavirus, introducing himself as “Carlo” and opening a call with tones as simple as they were abnormal. A gesture others made could also have led to mistrust or complacency thoughts, but in Ancelotti’s case it simply returns the usual Carlo.
Inevitable, accomplices and in fact protagonists in the results, it is at this point the soundtrack that the dispersed fans present in the stands sing during the matches. A chorus as simple as he is addressed to Ancelotti, a sincere compliment to him: “Carlo fantastic, Carlo Magnifico. Olè olè, Ancelotti “. And who knows, perhaps among these we will soon see a Tobias Jones convert who in the end, like Mark Renton, has decided choose life.
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