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Claudio Ranieri is an Italian football manager and former player who has had a long career coaching various clubs across Europe. He is notable for his success managing Leicester City, leading them to win the Premier League title in 2016, which was considered one of the greatest underdog achievements in sports history.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Claudio
- Family name
- Ranieri
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Unione Sportiva Catanzaro
- Position played
- defender
- Mass
- 78
- Image
- Claudio Ranieri Inter (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 182
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Encyclopedic overview
Claudio Ranieri Ufficiale OMRI ( Italian: [ˈklaudjo raˈnjeːri, -ˈnjɛː-]; born 20 October 1951) is an Italian former professional football manager and player who is the senior advisor of Serie A club Roma. As manager of Leicester City, he won the 2015–16 Premier League, a feat regarded as one of the greatest shocks in sporting history.
Ranieri began his managerial career in the lower leagues in Italy during the late 1980s, making his name at Cagliari, whom he took from Serie C1 up to Serie A in successive seasons. He subsequently managed Napoli, with which he qualified for the UEFA Cup, only to be dismissed the following season. In 1993, he joined Fiorentina, and immediately led them to Serie A promotion, also winning the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana in 1996, before moving to Spain in 1997, to manage Valencia and then Atlético Madrid. With Valencia, he won a Copa del Rey and an UEFA Intertoto Cup, and helped the club to lay new foundations that led them to qualify for the UEFA Champions League.
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