Ancelotti beats Guardiola to IFFHS Best Club Coach award

• Published date: 11 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Moroccan Regragui comes third

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has been chosen as the IFFHS Club Coach of the Year for 2022 by a landslide.

The Italian manager has won the award for the third time in his career, picking up the trophy in 2007 with Milan and 2014 with Real Madrid, when he won the Champions League on both occasions.

Ancelotti oversaw a remarkable double for Real Madrid, winning both La Liga and the European Cup. That won him the award, picking up 245 points, two hundred more than his nearest challenger Pep Guardiola (45).

Walid Regragui came third with 40 points for winning the African Champions League with Wydad Casablanca. Unai Emery came seventh in the ranking, with 10 points, for guiding...