The situation
When he signed for Real Madrid in the summer of 2013, Carlo Ancelotti was received within Real Madrid with a nickname, ‘El Pacifier’ . A way, with a certain restraint, to receive the Italian as a balsamic element after the scorched earth effect that José Mourinho had left in his wake. Nine years later, Carletto continues to earn that label of coach with an exquisite left hand to calm situations of public insubordination carried out by his troops. He showed it again last Wednesday by facilitating the ‘reintegration’ of Marco Asensio after the monumental heat of the Balearic Islands for warming up but not playing against Mallorca on the last day of the League. A controversy that put the white 11 in the center of the Bernabéu peephole, which received him against Leipzig with an impressive whistle. However, Ancelotti had preferred not to punish the footballer and allow him to correct his mistake as soon as possible. Asensio came out, sweated and scored . The best way to reconcile live and directly with everyone, the stands and their own coach. Another success for Ancelotti, who continues to know how to handle dressing room codes like no one else and calibrate, like a thermometer, what temperature is necessary to undo wrongs. He did it with Asensio as he had done before with two other well-known cases of rebellion before the cameras: that of Di María and his famous ‘genital accommodation’ when he was whistled by the Bernabéu in January 2014 and more recently with Isco , whom He punished in a very subtle way last season for an insurrection of the man from Malaga in Granada.
The details
He closed that without the blood reaching -metaphorically, of course- the river as it happened with Isco and Solari in a similar situation in 2018 . Carletto ‘s experience, who has seen them in all colors in the world of football, is a degree… To begin with, pacification is with gestures but also with words. After Asensio’s left foot, Ancelotti came to say that hairs to the sea. “Marco needed that goal”, said the transalpine. “This summer he had doubts about whether to go or stay, but now he’s here and we’re all happy.” Carpetazo, message captured by Asensio and to think about the Derby.