The fact Ancelotti should say that Cristiano Ronaldo is the
best footballer from among all those he has managed, means
that in the Italian's opinion, the Portuguese is a better
footballer than the other seven Ballon d'Or winners who have
played under him.
Namely they are, besides Ronaldo: Fabio Cannavaro, Kaká,
Zidane, Ronaldinho, Shevchenko, Ronaldo and Rivaldo.
However, it's not just those Ballon d'Or winners that Carlo has
coached during his career. A glance over the teams and
squads he's presided over contain so much quality that
MARCA could put together as many as four top teams.
Firstly at Parma he had Buffon, Cannavaro, Hernán Crespo,
Thuram, Zola and Asprilla. His great work at Parma opened
the door for him to Juventus. He replaced Lippi and had such
talent as Van der Sar, Zidane, Del Piero, Filippo Inzaghi,
Davids, Montero, Ferrara and Trezeguet at his disposal.
On his arrival at A.C. Milan there was Maldini, Shevchenko,
Rui Costa, Pirlo and Redondo (although injured), and during
his time there he saw Rivaldo, Nesta, Seedorf, Cafú, Kaká,
Vieri, Ronaldo, Beckham and Ronaldinho.
Roman Abramovich signed Ancelotti and Chelsea then had
Cech, Carvalho, Lampard, Drogba, Ballack, Deco, Terry and
Anelka, plus in his second season David Luiz arrived and
Torres in January.
PSG chose him for their new project and he came into contact
with Pastore and Matuidi. In his second year they signed
Thiago Silva, Ibrahimovic, Lavezzi and Lucas Moura.