Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti heads into the final days before Saturday’s Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley with a happy spirit: “I want to enjoy it, and I’m going to enjoy it.” But it will be his sixth European Cup final on the bench, and he knows that that will change on the day of the match, when the time approaches: “The cold sweat comes on Saturday afternoon. Fear arrives on Saturday afternoon. It’s quite normal,” he said this Monday in the club’s sports city. “But my team gives me a lot of confidence, a lot of enthusiasm. I see them focused, in Champions mode.”
It also has its strategies, and a point of superstitious rituals: “I have my routine, which is what I am going to follow, nothing special. I have a bit of superstition. This is quite normal, because I have been taught that not having it is bad luck,” she said. She is clear about some things, like Saturday’s diet: “Broccoli, salmon and pasta, this is what I’m going to eat. And then, an hour of nap seems fine to me. If I’m capable… And then, all the thoughts of the game. And then, before the talk, the heart starts to rise, it reaches 110, 120, and it stays there until the game starts. And when the game starts, the heart returns to its rhythm.”
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