{"id":778714,"date":"2026-07-04T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/778714\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:01:09","slug":"im-not-a-fool-carlo-ancelotti-lashes-out-at-critics-as-brazil-boss-insists-ex-man-utd-manager-is-the-only-person-who-can-give-him-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/778714\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m not a fool!&#8217; &#8211; Carlo Ancelotti lashes out at critics as Brazil boss insists ex-Man Utd manager is the ONLY person who can give him advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing the mounting pressure, the Selecao manager emphasised that his long career at the highest level of European football shields him from external judgement.<\/p>\n<p>Ancelotti stated: &#8220;In Italy, they say that all men want to be coaches and all women architects. I don&#8217;t know if I understand football or not, but no one can judge me on this. The only thing that&#8217;s certain is that I&#8217;ve prepared for over 1,400 matches. That may not be enough to understand football, but it&#8217;s certainly a good amount of experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only one person has prepared more matches than me: Alex Ferguson, who has prepared for over 2,000. I take advice from everyone, but the only one who could really be the right person to give me advice is Alex Ferguson. I am one hundred per cent sure I am not a genius, but at the same time, I am one hundred per cent sure I am not a fool.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Addressing the mounting pressure, the Selecao manager emphasised that his long career at the highest level of European&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,11308,368910,365069,21839,368909,85,21418],"class_list":["post-778714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brazil","tag-brazil-vs-norway","tag-c-ancelotti","tag-norway","tag-s-ferguson","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}