
Real Madrid officially announced the departure of their coach, Carlo Ancelotti, this Friday, as EA Sports' match against Real Sociedad in LaLiga for the 2024-2025 season concludes this Saturday.
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) announced last week that the Italian will be their next coach at the end of May.
"The Real Madrid president and Carlo Ancelotti have reached an agreement to end his term as Real Madrid coach. Our club wishes to express its gratitude and love for one of the greatest legends of Real Madrid and world football," the club said on its website.
For Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez, Ancelotti "is now forever part of the big Real Madrid family." "We are proud to have had the opportunity to have a coach who has helped us achieve so many successes and who has also represented the values of our club in an exemplary way," he expressed his gratitude before wishing him "good luck" in this new phase of his life.
And this new challenge will be taking charge of the Brazilian national team, which he will manage once his contract with Real Madrid ends this Saturday, after the final match of the EA Sports 2024-2025 LaLiga. The club will also pay tribute to him at the Santiago Bernabéu.
The CBF confirmed on 12 May that the new coach would be Ancelotti, but the Madrid team made no move or made any kind of communication at the time, although the CBF expressed "its sincere gratitude to Real Madrid and Florentino Pérez for the cordiality and sportsmanship shown in facilitating the coach's departure during his contract", with "mutual respect and collaboration".
Ancelotti led Real Madrid to one of the club's most successful periods and leaves as the most successful coach in the club's history, with 15 titles in six years, over two spells: 3 European Cups, 3 Club World Cups, 3 European Super Cups, 2 La Liga titles, 2 Copa del Rey titles and 2 Spanish Super Cups.
Between 2013 and 2015, he won a Champions League, a Copa del Rey, a European Super Cup and a Club World Cup. Despite being heavily criticised last season, his second spell in charge of the Merengues has been very fruitful. He started this season in 2021 and has already won two Champions League titles, two La Liga titles, a Copa del Rey, two Spanish Super Cups, two European Super Cups, a Club World Cup and an Intercontinental Cup.
With this latest record, he surpassed the legendary Miguel Muñoz, the most successful Real Madrid coach in the club's history until last December with 14 trophies - 9 Leagues, 2 European Cups, 2 Cups and 1 Intercontinental Cup - although in his case he did so in the 14 seasons, from 1960 to 1974, that he took the bench.