Italian footballer and manager
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He took Leicester City — a team that had barely escaped relegation — and won the Premier League. Bookmakers had put the odds at 5000-to-1. It remains the longest shot in modern sport to actually come in.
Claudio Ranieri began in Italy's lower divisions in the late 1980s, working Cagliari up from Serie C1 to the top flight in back-to-back seasons. He won silverware at Fiorentina — a Coppa Italia and Supercoppa in 1996 — then moved to Spain, where his Valencia side lifted a Copa del Rey and helped lay the groundwork for the club's Champions League years. Chelsea hired him in 2000; after Roman Abramovich bought the club and poured money into the squad, Ranieri took them to second place and a Champions League semi-final in 2004, then was sacked that May. He drifted through Italy and France — promo…
Sourced, dated quotes from Claudio Ranieri
I could be (too loyal), could be. It is difficult when you achieve something so good, you want to give them one chance, two chances, three chances. Maybe now, it is too much.
I told them, if you keep a clean sheet, I'll buy pizza for everybody. I think they're waiting for me to offer a hot dog too.
I pay for pizza, you pay for the sausage. I am the sausageman.
(On Jamie Vardy) This is not a footballer. This is a fantastic horse.
I say my team is like the RAF, it's fantastic - whoosh whoosh! - I love it.
| 1984–1986 | 40 | 0 |
| 1982–1984 | 92 | 1 |
| 1974–1982 | 225 | 8 |
| 1973–1974 | 6 | 0 |
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