The promotion of Gianluca Lapadula’s team to Serie A in Italy was celebrated by all the fans of Cagliari and the Peruvian football team player. In this regard, the popular “Lapagol” recognized that one of the main contributors to this achievement is the current technical director Claudio Ranieri, who boasts an outstanding and extensive career in European football. In the following note The Republicwe tell you more about him and his record as a coach.
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Who is Claudio Ranieri?
Claudio Ranieri is a 71-year-old Italian coach. He started his footballing career in 1973 when he made his debut with Roma in Serie A. He then played his football for Catanzaro, Catania and Palermo where he excelled as a defender.
However, his most recognizable facet is that of Technical Director. After retiring from football, he spent a year directing Vigor Lamezia Calcio and was promoted to Serie A with Cagliari Calcio in 1990.
From 1993 to 2021 he managed various teams in Europe: His most famous assignments were at Valencia in Spain, Leicester City in England, Monaco in France and Cagliari in his home country.
Besides these clubs, he managed other important Italian teams such as Napoli, Fiorentina, Juventus, Parma, Inter, Roma and Sampdoria. For his part, he also commanded prestigious teams such as Atlético de Madrid, Chelsea, Fulham, Watford and others.
What titles has Claudio Ranieri won during his coaching career?
The current Cagliari coach has won important titles such as the 2004 European Supercup with Valencia and the Copa del Rey with the same team; the 2016 Premier League with Leicester City, as well as other individual awards such as The Best, which FIFA awarded in 2016 to the best coach in the world.
It is worth mentioning that he has also won domestic championships such as the Italian Cup and Supercup with Fiorentina and Cagliari has been promoted to Serie A this year. In 2014 he finally got the chance to manage the Greece national team but was sacked for not producing the expected results in the Euro 2016 qualifier.
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What did Gianluca Lapadula say about Claudio Ranieri?
After promotion to Serie A with Italy’s Cagliari, Peruvian striker Gianluca Lapadula, who has scored 25 goals this season, praised the influence and ability of his coach Claudio Ranieri to achieve that important result.
“The coach is a person known around the world for his achievements and for the respect he deserves. Mr Ranieri made us feel like family. This is his great merit. It’s a wonderful moment in my career, we believed in it, we prepared it well, we delivered a textbook performance. “Everything that happens is beautiful,” he said.
Let’s recall that Cagliari was 14th in Serie B and the arrival of Ranieri in January this year meant a winning bet to recapture positions and eventually win the playoffs to get promoted to Serie A in Italy by they beat Bari 2-1 on the global scoreboard.