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Roberto Mancini is looking forward to locking horns with an old cohort when City take on Chelsea on Saturday lunchtime.
Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti was an opponent of Mancini's as part of the superb AC Milan side of the late 1980s but he was also a team mate in the Italian national side when the pair represented their country in the same era.
Their subsequent moves into management have seen them go up against each other in Serie A, most recently in the "Derby della Madonnina" - the Milan derby, where Mancini has the edge over Ancelotti, with four wins to two in the league while at Inter.
Assessing his opposite number and the task at hand on Saturday, Mancini declares, "Carlo's a good friend of mine, we played together for the national team many times. I played against him in Italy for 15 years as well. He's a good man, a good manager and he certainly has a strong team to look after.
"We didn't think about the future back when we played, but he knows a alot about football. Like me he played at the top level for many years, and he won a lot of medals in Italy. With that and all the times he played for the national side, he picked up a lot of good experience that he is using now as a manager. When we were in the Italian squad, we both talked and thought a lot about the game before we played.
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