The Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, took the time to analyze the speech given by Giannis Antetokounmpo, a player for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, about the failure after a question from a journalist, and let it be known that he is in favor of everything. what was said by the Greek.
In the press conference prior to the match between the ‘Merengue’ team and Real Sociedad, corresponding to matchday 33 of LaLiga, the Italian coach was asked about the basketball player’s words, to which he acknowledged that they seemed important to him since the defeats They are not failures, but teachings.
“What Antetokounmpo said was fantastic…Failure is when you don’t try to do something as well as you can. When you try to give your best, you have a clear conscience, and that is never a failure, not only in sport but in life”, expressed the award-winning coach.
In this sense, he was used as an example, remembering that he has won many competitions but that he has also lost a lot, stating that something is learned from all of them. “I have a very large suitcase of titles, but if I have to put the lost titles (…) it would be in a house,” he pointed out.
Giannis Antetokounmpo on failure
After the elimination of the Milwaukee Bucks against the Miami Heat in the first round of the NBA playoffs, a journalist asked Giannis Antetokounmpo if he considered that his team had failed by not winning the championship, to which he replied with an extensive speech in which he stated that defeats do not mean failure since you cannot always win but you can learn from it.
In this sense, the star player of the Bucks used the legendary Michael Jordan as an example, recalling that he won the title in six of the 15 seasons he played and that is not why someone has said that he was a failure as a player, quite the opposite.
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