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Ancelotti reveals the secret of his success: Zidane
Chelsea's resplendent start to the season owes a debt of gratitude to Zinedine Zidane, the greatest player of his generation, and a lesson he taught manager Carlo Ancelotti a decade ago.
Chelsea have taken to the defence of their Premier League title with an indecent appetite for goals, 21 so far from just five games following Sunday's 4-0 victory over Blackpool. The rich vein of form being tapped in Chelsea's fluent, attacking play is the sum total of Ancelotti's 18 years of experience as a player and 15 as a coach. One of the most important lessons Ancelotti learnt was during his time at Juventus, when he was given the responsibility of teasing the best out of Zidane, a player Ancelotti describes as the finest he has ever had under his charge.
Ancelotti found that the only way he could do it was to ditch his preconceived ideas about tactics and systems, and adopt a more pragmatic formation that would provide Zidane with a stage on which to demonstrate the full extent of his genius.
"Before, when I started to train, I had an identity which I put on my teams," Ancelotti said. "I didn't look at the characteristics of my players. I wanted to play 4-4-2 for the first two years. After that, I changed my ideas. It changed at Juventus – Zidane didn't want to play on the left, but in the centre, so I changed my formation for my players. There is not a winning shape: you can play 4-4-2, 4-3-1-2. Now I look at the skills and characteristics of my players and put the right shape in the team for them."
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...the-secret-of-his-success-zidane-2084770.html
Chelsea's resplendent start to the season owes a debt of gratitude to Zinedine Zidane, the greatest player of his generation, and a lesson he taught manager Carlo Ancelotti a decade ago.
Chelsea have taken to the defence of their Premier League title with an indecent appetite for goals, 21 so far from just five games following Sunday's 4-0 victory over Blackpool. The rich vein of form being tapped in Chelsea's fluent, attacking play is the sum total of Ancelotti's 18 years of experience as a player and 15 as a coach. One of the most important lessons Ancelotti learnt was during his time at Juventus, when he was given the responsibility of teasing the best out of Zidane, a player Ancelotti describes as the finest he has ever had under his charge.
Ancelotti found that the only way he could do it was to ditch his preconceived ideas about tactics and systems, and adopt a more pragmatic formation that would provide Zidane with a stage on which to demonstrate the full extent of his genius.
"Before, when I started to train, I had an identity which I put on my teams," Ancelotti said. "I didn't look at the characteristics of my players. I wanted to play 4-4-2 for the first two years. After that, I changed my ideas. It changed at Juventus – Zidane didn't want to play on the left, but in the centre, so I changed my formation for my players. There is not a winning shape: you can play 4-4-2, 4-3-1-2. Now I look at the skills and characteristics of my players and put the right shape in the team for them."
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...the-secret-of-his-success-zidane-2084770.html
Zidane slams author of drugs claims book
Zinedine Zidane hit out Wednesday at the author of a book which suggested he and several other members of France's 1998 World Cup winning squad may have been involved in doping practices.
Former France team doctor Jean-Pierre Paclet published 'Implosion' in August, in which he claimed that "blood sample tests on several France players just before the 1998 World Cup revealed anomalies".
Paclet added: "There is room for suspicion, given the clubs where some of the players are employed, notably the Italian league."
In an interview on TV5 Monde Wednesday former Juventus midfielder Zidane played down the claims, suggesting Paclet was simply trying to shock to sell more copies.
"It's not nice to hear, and it's unfortunate, but that's life. People like that are just looking to boost their book sales by adding some shocking content. It's not new."
Zidane played for Juventus from 1996-2001.
The Italian giants won three Serie A titles and one European Cup in the 1990s, when the club was also embroiled in a drugs affair which led to a trial for Juventus chief executive Antonio Giraudo and team doctor Riccardo Agricola.
At a 2004 trial Italian prosecutors charged that, while the drugs in question were legal, they were employed in such a way that they produced the same effects as performance-enhancing substances
Zidane admitted at the trial to being given drugs at Juventus but claimed to court officials that he was told they were vitamins.
AFP
Zinedine Zidane hit out Wednesday at the author of a book which suggested he and several other members of France's 1998 World Cup winning squad may have been involved in doping practices.
Former France team doctor Jean-Pierre Paclet published 'Implosion' in August, in which he claimed that "blood sample tests on several France players just before the 1998 World Cup revealed anomalies".
Paclet added: "There is room for suspicion, given the clubs where some of the players are employed, notably the Italian league."
In an interview on TV5 Monde Wednesday former Juventus midfielder Zidane played down the claims, suggesting Paclet was simply trying to shock to sell more copies.
"It's not nice to hear, and it's unfortunate, but that's life. People like that are just looking to boost their book sales by adding some shocking content. It's not new."
Zidane played for Juventus from 1996-2001.
The Italian giants won three Serie A titles and one European Cup in the 1990s, when the club was also embroiled in a drugs affair which led to a trial for Juventus chief executive Antonio Giraudo and team doctor Riccardo Agricola.
At a 2004 trial Italian prosecutors charged that, while the drugs in question were legal, they were employed in such a way that they produced the same effects as performance-enhancing substances
Zidane admitted at the trial to being given drugs at Juventus but claimed to court officials that he was told they were vitamins.
AFP