Ramon Diaz vs. Ancelotti, the final battle in the Club World Cup: clashes as footballers and the implacable statistics of the Italian

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During their days as soccer players, Ancelotti and Ramón Díaz faced each other on 9 occasions.
During their days as soccer players, Ancelotti and Ramón Díaz faced each other on 9 occasions.

One was born in Reggioloa town north of Italiain the region of Emilia-Romagna, what It does not have more than 10,000 inhabitants and tourists ignore when they are going to tour the beautiful towns of Venice, Florence o Milan. The other is from The Riojathe Argentine province whose main attraction is the Talampaya National Park, that with its immense and imposing red walls resemble the Grand Canyon of the USA. And despite having trained more than 11,000 kilometers, football found them on the same path: the Soccer.

When Ramon Angel Diaz settled in Europa to take your first steps in Napoli, Charles Ancelotti was already entrenched in Roma After his notable appearance in the Parma. Al Naked it cost him the adaptation in the country of the boot. The remarkable productions of him that he had had during his days in River Plate and the Under 20 youth team (he was world champion in Japan together with Diego Maradona) were not enough to compete against the powers of the Old continent. However, the Argentine goalscorer strove to become one of the figures of the Inter (got the Scudetto 1989) after his steps through the Avellino and the Fiorentina.

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The first cross between the current strategists of the Real Madrid y Al Hilal who will seek maximum glory in the Club World Cup settled on the stadium rome olympian he February 20, 1983, when the man from La Rioja was still defending the shirt of the southern team and the Italian commanded the midfield of the capital team. a blunt 5 a 2 in favor of the local marked the first victory of Carletto about the idol of Millionaire. However, history records that in the 9 direct duels Between them, they took three wins each and the other three ended even. The last one, disputed the April 30, 1989 in it Derby della Madonna term 0 a 0.

“I have faced Carlo as a player too”remembered Ramon Diaz after the historic feat against the Flamengo that allowed him to reach the final in Morocco. “He is a great coach, a great strategist. I congratulate him because he continues to be successful and is at a great club like Real Madrid”, he added before leaving the field of play to celebrate the feat and begin to prepare for the complex challenge against Merengue.

For him Naked It is a kind of revenge of what he had lived with River when he traveled to Tokio in 1996 to dispute the Copa Intercontinental Front of Juventus. After having established himself as the best in America, The band faced a tough commitment against the European power that prevailed by the slightest difference thanks to both Alessandro Del Piero.

Instead, Ancelotti You already know what it means to be champion of the Club World Cup. As a footballer he conquered the aforementioned Intercontinental de 1989 with the Super Milan that exceeded 1 a 0 a Atletico Nacional de Medellin and the following year he thrashed Olimpia from Paraguay 3-0. While as a coach, he also achieved it on 2 occasions when he was in charge of the Red-black in 2007 and defeated in the final Boca Juniors by 4 a 2; and the most recent with White House when in 2014 won the decisive match Saint Lawrence 2 a 0 in Marrakech. Although in the background the Italian strategist appears as the executioner of the Argentines, Ramón Díaz has the tools to strike and end the hegemony of the Europeans in the most coveted tournament on the planet.

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