Claudio Ranieri is a former footballer and current coach of an English club called Leicester City. He was born in Rome, in 1951 on October 20. The footballer was a good defender, but today he is engaged in coaching, and it cannot be said that to no avail.
About football career
There are people who do not become famous football players, but turn into great coaches. And this is a well-known fact. In the same way, as not every brilliant player can become a worthy, well-explaining coach. This can be safely stated about Claudio Ranieri. His professional career as a football player did not last long. He started with the famous football club “Roma”, but played for the Roman team only six matches. And this is for two seasons. After that, he left the club at Katanzaro, but he stayed there for a short while. The footballer replaced two more teams, and this is “Catania” and “Palermo”. The player’s career as such practically did not exist, but the coaching deserves more attention.
Coaching Experience: The Beginning
Claudio Ranieri has become a good coach. One of the first in his career was FC Puteolana. However, then the Italian was not able to achieve much success. But in “Cagliari” he managed to become known as a coach. It was there that he made his name. Not everyone was able to almost immediately withdraw the team from Serie C1 to the highest Italian league - to Serie A.
But in 1991, Claudio Ranieri went to Napoli. However, in two years he failed to achieve any significant results - not a single gain. Therefore, in 1993, he switched to Fiorentina, which was playing at that time in Series B. In the very first season, under the leadership of Ranieri, the “violets” returned to the top division again, and after another three years the club managed to win the Cup, as well as the Italian Super Cup.
Successful years
In the life of a coach, the bright years have come. From 1997 to 1999, Ranieri was involved in the club “Valencia”. The Spaniards became interested in the coach and offered him a very good deal. During these two years, he managed to bring the players of “Valencia” in the Champions League. In addition, they won the Spanish Cup.
Then Ranieri moved to Madrid “Atletico”, but there he failed to achieve such successes as in the case of the previous club. In 2000, the Italian invited Chelsea to London as a coach, where he stayed for four seasons. However, the team did not lead to trophies, which is why he was fired.
Successful years ended there, and until 2007, the Italian unsuccessfully studied first “Valencia” (again), and then “Parma”. In “Juventus”, where he was invited in 2007, Ranieri also did not gain a foothold, but with “Roma”, which he coached from 2009 to 2011, he managed to take second place in Serie A. Then, having lost more and more, he resigned, but in 2011 he took the post of coach of Milan “Inter”. However, there he was suspended six months later. After that, he left for “Monaco” and in the first season he returned the club to Ligue 1, after which he left - in 2014. Then, two months later, in July, he was offered the post of coach of the Greek national team. But on November 15 he was fired, because for four matches held as part of the selection, the team scored only 1 point, losing to all who could. And from 2015, from July 13, the Italian headed the English Leicester City.
The best Italian footballers are the pride of a great country
This topic should also be discussed. Famous Italian football players are truly true professionals, idols of millions and idols for fans of this sport. It’s worth talking about them. For example, Fabio Cannavaro is one of the greatest defenders in the history of football. In 2006, he became a player of the year of FIFA, and recently entered the ranking under the title “The Most Beautiful Football Players in the World”.
Gianluigi Buffon, or in the common people of football - just Gigi. “Veteran” “Juventus” and one of the best goalkeepers in the world and especially Italy.
Paolo Maldini hung his boots on a nail only at 41 years old. Throughout his career, he won the Champions League title five times with his team (AC Milan), seven times they became the first in Serie A. 120 times he played for the Italian national team - not everyone can boast of it.
Alessandro Del Piero, Francesco Totti, Andrea Pirlo - these and many other famous Italian football players defend the honor of their clubs, win titles and amaze with their game. And unequivocally all of them forever inscribed their names in the history of Italian and world football.