In his biography on Zinedine Zidane, Frédéric Hermel, journalist on RMC, said he had two friends in football, including the current TFC coach: “Carlo Ancelotti is, with Philippe Montanier, the only close friend I have in football. Of those with whom we experience family events, of those with whom we share our sorrows and questions, of those with whom we fully play the profession and reserve journalist. A rare chance.”
Last summer it was another journalist, Stephane Pauwels, who had visited his friend, Philippe montanier in Toulouse (read below).