Bayern Munich's new coach Carlo Ancelotti attends first team training at Allianz Arena in Munich on Monday.
New Bayern Munich manager Carlo
Ancelotti has no plans to rip up the foundations laid by predecessor
Pep Guardiola and says he will look to continue the club's tradition of
attacking football when the season kicks off in August.
The Italian has large boots to fill as Guardiola, who switched to
English Premier League side ManchesterCity this month, won three
straight Bundesliga titles during his tenure at the Allianz Arena.
"I know very well that the style of Bayern Munich is to play
attacking football and we want to play attacking football. I love to
play attacking football," Ancelotti told reporters on Monday.
"I'm not here to make a revolution because the job that Guardiola did
here was fantastic and I would like to follow his style. I don't think
our style is going to change a lot compared to last year. The system
will be more or less the same."
Despite the domestic dominance, Guardiola's three-year spell at
Bayern was not deemed entirely successful having missed out on the
Champions League title.
Ancelotti said it was impossible to predict whether he would do any better.
"Of course everybody wants to win the Champions League, but only one
team wins it," added Ancelotti, who is the only manager to have won the
Champions League three times.
"I know that Bayern have a fantastic history in the Bundesliga and in
the Champions League. The only thing that we cannot control is the
result -- if I could control that too I would be a magician, but I'm
only a manager."
Having managed AC Milan, Paris St-Germain, Chelsea, Juventus and Real
Madrid, Ancelotti said he had become accustomed to the pressure that
comes with taking up a job with clubs targeting Champions League
success.
"A lot of people ask about the pressure -- I am used to it. I had the
luck in my career of coaching top teams -- all top teams who want to
win, but honestly I don't feel the pressure because I'm used to it," the
57-year-old said.
Bayern kick off their title defence against Werder Bremen on August 26.
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