Claudio Ranieri

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Claudio Ranieri
Claudio Ranieri Inter.jpg
Claudio Ranieri (2011)
Personnel
birthday October 20, 1951
place of birth RomeItaly
size 182 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973-1974 AS Roma 6 (0)
1974-1982 US Catanzaro 225 (8)
1982-1984 Calcio Catania 92 (1)
1984-1986 SSC Palermo 40 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1986-1987 Vigor Lamezia
1987-1988 FC Pozzuoli
1988-1991 Cagliari Calcio
1991-1993 SSC Naples
1993-1997 AC Florence
1997-1999 Valencia CF
1999-2000 Atlético Madrid
2000-2004 Chelsea FC
2004-2005 Valencia CF
2007 Parma FC
2007-2009 Juventus Turin
2009-2011 AS Roma
2011–2012 Inter Milan
2012-2014 AS Monaco
2014 Greece
2015-2017 Leicester City
2017-2018 FC Nantes
2018-2019 Fulham FC
2019 AS Roma
2019– Sampdoria Genoa
1 Only league games are given.

Claudio Ranieri (born October 20, 1951 in Rome ) is a former Italian football player and current coach .

Since October 12, 2019, he has been the head coach of the Italian first division club Sampdoria Genoa .

Player career

Coming from his own youth, the defender received a two-year contract with the Italian first division club AS Roma in 1972. But he could not assert himself in the combat team. In his second season he came on six missions, each in the starting lineup, and was substituted four times. The Romans, trained by the Swede Nils Liedholm , finished the season in eighth place.

The second division US Catanzaro undertook the 22-year-old Roman. The first success was in 1975/76 when he was promoted to second division second in Serie A, but this was followed immediately by relegation. The ascent was just as immediate in 1977/78 , again in second place. This time Catanzaro was able to keep the class. In total, Ranieri competed 128 times in five seasons in Serie A for US Catanzaro, hitting four times into the opposing net and once into his own net.

The now 30-year-old defender joined the Sicilian second division club Calcio Catania in 1982 . With the team he was third in Serie B in 1982/83 behind AC Milan and Lazio Rome and, after relegation games against Como Calcio and the US Cremonese, he made promotion to Serie A for the third time. Ranieri appeared in all 30 Serie A games the 1983/84 season for Catania, but the immediate relegation followed. Ranieri then joined the SSC Palermo . With the relegated second division, he finished second in the third-class C1 series behind his former club US Catanzaro and rose for the fourth time in his career. In 1985/86 Palermo secured relegation as 16th of 20 clubs. Ranieri played 18 times before he - now 34 years old - ended his career as a player. In total, he competed 50 times for Palermo.

Coaching career

Italy

Immediately after his playing career, Claudio Ranieri took over the Italian amateur club Vigor Lamezia . He later took on an engagement with FC Pozzuoli . At his third coaching position, Ranieri made a name for himself when he brought the third-rate club Cagliari Calcio from Serie C1 directly to Serie A within two years. Therefore he was signed by the SSC Napoli . Although he was fourth in the league with the club in 1991/92 , he was dismissed after a negative series in November 1993 and replaced by Ottavio Bianchi .

In 1993 Ranieri signed with AC Florence in Serie B. He led the club back to Serie A in 1993/94 , won the Coppa Italia with two wins against Atalanta Bergamo in 1995/96 and then the Italian Supercup in 1996 against AC Milan .

Spain

In 1997, Claudio Ranieri moved to Spain for Valencia . With the club, he managed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League in 1998/99 . He brought in a successful squad with players from the club's youth department, such as Gaizka Mendieta , Miguel Ángel Angulo , Francisco Farinós and David Albelda , but also bought talented players like Santiago Cañizares or the Argentine striker Claudio López , who made the breakthrough at the club managed.

Jesús Gil brought Ranieri to Atlético Madrid in the summer of 1999 . However, the collaboration was unsuccessful. When the club was just about to be relegated, Ranieri decided to resign and thus anticipated the president's dismissal.

Chelsea FC

On September 18, 2000, Claudio Ranieri was introduced as a coach at Chelsea FC , although he did not speak English . He finished the 2000/01 season with the club in sixth place in the Premier League and qualifying for the UEFA Cup . In the summer of 2001 he rebuilt the team and signed players such as Frank Lampard , William Gallas , Boudewijn Zenden and Emmanuel Petit . In the league, however, they only achieved sixth place, but made it to the FA Cup final , which was lost 2-0 to local rivals Arsenal .

The following year they qualified for the UEFA Champions League . Ranieri built talents like John Terry , Robert Huth or Carlton Cole into the team during the season .

When Roman Abramowitsch took over the club in 2003, the budget for transfers was increased and Ranieri's workplace was now under special observation. Above all, a meeting between the new club owner and the then coach of the English national team fueled rumors that were not to die down until the end of the season. Ranieri has been approved to spend over £ 120 million on new players. These included the transfer of Damien Duff (for the then club record of 17 million pounds sterling ), Wayne Bridge , Joe Cole , Scott Parker , Glen Johnson , Juan Sebastian Veron , Hernan Crespo , Claude Makélélé and Adrian Mutu (which, however, over a cocaine affair was to stumble ). This was followed by second place, the best result in the league since the 1955 championship. Since the club but in the semifinals of the Champions League at AS Monaco had failed, Ranieri was the Portuguese José Mourinho replaced the with the FC Porto 's victory in the UEFA Cup in 2002/03 and in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League was a success.

In the fall, Ranieri published a book about his time after Abramovich took over the club. Proud Man Walking proceeds went to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital .

Back in Spain

In June 2004, Valencia CF announced the return of Ranieri. He succeeded Rafael Benítez , who as Spanish Champion and winner of the UEFA Cup in 2003/04 to Liverpool was changed. Ranieri signed four Serie A players, but Marco Di Vaio , Stefano Fiore , Bernardo Corradi and Emiliano Moretti never made their breakthrough in Spain under his leadership. In a mediocre season - initially a good start in the league, followed by a long downturn, in the Champions League a terrific 5-1 win against Inter Milan  - Ranieri was for his game system and his player policy - he relied on the ailing Italians over and over again and renounced, among others, Miguel Angulo and Pablo Aimar  - criticized and his dismissal followed in February 2005 after failing in the UEFA Cup at Steaua Bucharest . Quique Sánchez Flores has been appointed as his successor.

Parma FC

Ranieri as coach of
Parma FC in 2007

In February 2007 Ranieri took over FC Parma , which many have already described as a safe relegation. He managed to make up for the desolate fitness of the team and led the team to relegation.

Juventus Turin

On June 4, 2007 Claudio Ranieri was hired by Juventus Turin as coach and successor to Didier Deschamps . The Turin went after the forced relegation due to the manipulation scandal as promoted in the 2007/08 Serie A season . He received a contract until 2010. After the first match day Ranieri was with Juve , after a 5-1 against AS Livorno , on the first place in the table. In the course of the season, his team established itself in the top group and finally reached third place, which entitled to a place in the Champions League qualification. In 2008/09 he was second in the table with Juventus for a long time. In the Champions League Ranieri reached with the Piedmontese club u. a. with two wins against Real Madrid as their group the knockout stages. There you failed, however, at Chelsea London. Claudio Ranieri was dismissed on May 18, 2009 after persistently poor results, including losing the cup against Lazio Rome , two months without a competitive game win and the threat of missing out on the direct Champions League qualification. This was the first coach dismissal in Turin for 40 years, his successor was Ciro Ferrara on an interim basis .

AS Roma

On September 1, 2009 Claudio Ranieri was introduced as the coach of AS Roma , for whom he had already played actively. He inherited the capital club Luciano Spalletti , who had resigned after two defeats at the beginning of the 2009/10 season . Under Claudio Ranieri, AS Roma made up position after position in the table and finally dueled with the favored Inter Milan for Scudetto . At the end of the season, Inter Milan finally prevailed and AS Roma finished second two points behind. Ranieri's second season at AS Roma turned out to be much more unfortunate. After a series of games without a win, he said goodbye to his team on February 20, 2011 after a 3: 4 bankruptcy against CFC Genoa immediately after the game in the dressing room and later announced his resignation.

Inter Milan

On September 21, 2011 Inter Milan signed Ranieri, with a two-year contract, for the unsuccessful Gian Piero Gasperini . Andrea Stramaccioni took over from him after just six months .

AS Monaco

On May 30, 2012 it was announced that Ranieri would coach the French first division club AS Monaco in the coming season . He signed a two-season contract. Shortly before the end of his contract, on June 30, 2014, his contract was terminated by mutual agreement.

Greece

After the 2014 World Cup, Claudio Ranieri succeeded Portuguese Fernando Santos as coach of the Greek national team . While Santos, himself successor to Otto Rehhagel, led Greece to the third and so far most successful world championship participation, not much was achieved under Ranieri. In the first three games in September and October 2014, which were part of the qualification for the European Championship 2016, there were home defeats against Romania and Northern Ireland and a draw in Finland. After the fourth game on November 14, 2014, the home game in Piraeus against the selection of the Faroe Islands , which was also part of the European Championship qualification , he was released from office on the occasion of the 0-1 defeat.

Leicester City

In July 2015, the English Premier League club Leicester City signed Ranieri as their new coach. In the following season he surprisingly won the championship title with the team; this was the greatest success of his career to date. The then 64-year-old then extended his contract term by four years in August 2016. Ranieri was released on February 23, 2017.

FC Nantes

For the 2017/18 season Ranieri took over the Ligue 1 team of FC Nantes . With the team he reached ninth place in the table. After the season, Ranieri and the club separated by mutual agreement.

Fulham FC

On November 14, 2018, Ranieri took over as successor Slaviša Jokanović of the Premier League team of FC Fulham , which was last in the table with five points after twelve matchdays. Since the team was ten points behind a non-relegation place on the penultimate place in the table after the 28th matchday, he was released from his duties on February 28, 2019.

Return to AS Roma

On March 8, 2019, eight days after his departure from Fulham, Ranieri took over the AS Roma team, which was fifth in Serie A after 26 match days, as the successor to Eusebio Di Francesco . He received a contract until the end of the 2018/19 season .

Success as a trainer

AC Florence

Valencia CF

Leicester City

Personal awards as a trainer

Web links

Commons : Claudio Ranieri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. Ranieri succeeds Spalletti. www.kicker.de, September 1, 2009, accessed on September 2, 2009 .
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  11. Claudio Ranieri: Italian leaves Nantes by mutual consent after one season in charge , bbc.com, May 17, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018.
  12. Claudio Ranieri Named Manager Of Fulham Football Club , fulhamfc.com, November 14, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018.
  13. Parker Appointed Caretaker Manager , fulhamfc.com, February 28, 2019, accessed February 28, 2019.
  14. Claudio Ranieri takes charge at AS Roma , asroma.com, March 8, 2019, accessed on March 8, 2019.
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