The end of an era! After 38 years, Claudio Ranieri has blown the full-time whistle of his managerial career.The episode in Cagliari, with whom he managed to stay in Serie A, will be the last in the rich career of Ranieri. The accomplished Italian coach announced tonight that he has decided to retire at the age of 72.In the current season, the expert from Rome managed to secure survival in Serie A with the team from Sardinia, and he will have a farewell match this Thursday when his team welcomes Fiorentina, another club he led during his career, in the last round.##NAJAVA_MECA_8117932##Football fans will remember him most for his tenure in Leicester City, with which he wrote one of the most wonderful fairy tales in the history of the magical game, managing to become the Premier League champion in the 2015/16 season. That campaign will also be remembered by the relationship that Tinkerman – as they called him in Leicester – has had with his players. Buying pizza for all the players after keeping a clean sheet or traveling to Rome to visit his 96-year-old mother instead of watching the Chelsea-Tottenham match, the game that had eventually secured Leicester the title, are only some of the things Ranieri will be recalled by.Apart from that incredible success, he achieved successful moments on the bench of Valencia, with whom he twice won Copa del Rey, the UEFA Super Cup and the Intertoto Cup.In total, in a career spanning 38 years, he led 22 different teams, starting from the Italian lower leagues Vigor Lamezia and Campania Puteolana, to giants such as Roma, Juventus, Chelsea, Atlético Madrid, Inter, Monaco, Napoli, and for a short period he also led the Greek national team.Claudio Ranieri has OFFICIALLY announced his retirement from football 😭🇮🇹At 72 years old with over 50 years of working in football, Claudio’s decided to call it quits.He will always be remembered for one of football’s GREATEST miracles – winning the Premier League with… pic.twitter.com/DIwq6Y39yw— Italian Football TV (@IFTVofficial) May 21, 2024 Gabriel Batistuta, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Jamie Vardy, Riyadh Mahrez, N’Golo Kante are just some of the players he helped to break through.He did not win many trophies, he mostly came to clubs as a temporary solution or to ‘put out fires’, but despite that he managed to build a unique style and leave an impressive coaching mark.He was and remained an example of a true gentleman, of which there are fewer and fewer in today’s football.CLAUDIO RANIERI RETIRES FROM FOOTBALL 🇮🇹Over 1400 games in management across 19 different clubs & 50 years working in football. Performed his final miracle in keeping Cagliari in Serie A resulting in this iconic celebration at the weekend. 👏🏻pic.twitter.com/hwq1e97vVK— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) May 21, 2024
