Between them, Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti and Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola have lifted the European Cup as player or coach a remarkable nine times. When this greatest competition in the history of club football reaches its 70th birthday in three seasons' time, the profiles of the Italian and the Catalan -- each born in tiny communities whose combined population wouldn't fill a third of the Santiago Bernabeu -- will be written into Champions League history books as the greatest the competition has ever seen.
Ancelotti, even though he might one day be overtaken by Zinedine Zidane or Guardiola himself, has won more European Cup finals (four) than any other coach.