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Madrid coach Ancelotti backs Antetokounmpo's 'no failure' cry

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 1 May 2023 23:52
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Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti agrees with Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo that there's no failure in sports.

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    Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti before a match at Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain, on April 2, 2023 (Reuters)

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti praised NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo on Monday for his insistence last week that there was "no failure in sports."

After the Milwaukee Bucks exited the NBA playoffs at the hands of the Miami Heat, Greek player Antetokounmpo considered that teams can have good days and bad days but there was no such thing as failure in sport.

If you watch one thing today, make it Giannis Antetokounmpo's response to a question on failure.

📹 @Bucks | @Giannis_An34 | @NBA pic.twitter.com/RKiT5H9nKL

— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) April 27, 2023

"What this player said was spectacular, I have nothing to add, I think 100 percent like him," Ancelotti told reporters.

He continued, "In sport you can't talk about failure, in life you can't talk about failure. Failure is only when you don't try to do something the best that you can, that is failure."

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"When you have a calm conscience, trying to do the best that you can, it will never be a failure," the Italian coach made clear.

La Liga champions Real Madrid are second in the table, 11 points behind rivals Barcelona with six games remaining.

They are in the Champions League's semifinals and on Saturday they will face Osasuna in the Copa del Rey final.

"In sport, you lose more than you win," Ancelotti indicated.

"It's true, I've got a belly full of titles, but if I had to put the trophies I lost in there, it wouldn't be a belly, it would be a house," he concluded.

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