🚨 Carlo Ancelotti on why Paolo Maldini could never be compared to most modern defenders:
“Today, many defenders think passion means diving into tackles, shouting, and playing with constant aggression. Paolo showed that true greatness comes from control.”
“I remember one Serie A match where a striker spent the entire first half trying to provoke him pushing, talking, looking for reactions. Maldini never responded once.”
“At halftime, I asked Paolo if the striker was annoying him. He looked at me and said: ‘If he is talking this much, it means he already lost focus on the football.’”
“In the second half, Maldini completely dominated him without making the game dirty. That was his mentality. He defeated opponents mentally before he defeated them physically.”
“That is why he was special. He defended with elegance, intelligence, and authority not chaos.”
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ (1954-55) & ‘The Hobbit’ (1937), was born on this day 134 years ago.
Here he is writing in Elvish, his invented language for ‘The Lord of the Rings’