{"id":14024,"date":"2024-05-24T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=14024"},"modified":"2024-05-24T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T11:48:45","slug":"claudio-ranieri-to-exit-cagliari-and-retire-from-club-management-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/claudio-ranieri-to-exit-cagliari-and-retire-from-club-management-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudio Ranieri to Exit Cagliari and Retire from Club Management Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/claudio-ranieri.jpg\" alt=\"Claudio Ranieri\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14025\" title=\"Claudio Ranieri to Exit Cagliari and Retire from Club Management Career\" \/><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claudio Ranieri is getting ready to bid farewell to Cagliari and retire from club management.<\/li>\n<li>He will put an end to a four-decade career during which he was in charge of 18 club sides.<\/li>\n<li>Cagliari\u2019s Serie A status is guaranteed in time for Ranieri&#8217;s last match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/italy\">Italy<\/a>\u2019s <strong>Cagliari<\/strong> to preserve its position in Serie A and avoid relegation, club manager <strong>Claudio Ranieri<\/strong> announced he was getting ready to leave the club and put an end to his lengthy club management career.<\/p>\n<h2>Ranieri Was in Charge of 18 Clubs<\/h2>\n<p>The 72-year-old club manager\u2019s career started in 1986, almost four decades ago. Over the years, he took charge of an impressive number of 18 club sides.<\/p>\n<p>The retired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/football\">professional football<\/a> player also recorded a brief stint as Greece boss.<\/p>\n<p>One of his most iconic career moves was the time he spent <strong>leading Leicester City to the Premier League title in 2015-2016<\/strong>, at a time when the club was rated as <em>5,000-1<\/em> underdogs at the beginning of the campaign.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OOEJb5xausQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ranieri spent his last match in the dugout on Thursday during a 3-2 home defeat by Fiorentina.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cEternal Gratitude to a Great Man\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>In an interview for Sky Sport Italia before the game, Ranieri said that while he finished his career as a club coach, he could accept an international position in case such a proposal would appeal to him. <\/p>\n<p>It was an emotional final game for Ranieri with fans chanting his name before the before kick-off and giving him a standing ovation, while a banner read \u201c<em>Eternal gratitude to a great man<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When he originally arrived at the club in 1988, <a href=\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/\">Cagliari<\/a> was playing in the third tier. <\/p>\n<p>While he inherited a side fighting relegation, Ranieri assisted the club with consecutive promotions and helped it reach top-flight safety before moving on to <strong>Fiorentina<\/strong>, followed by <strong>Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Juventus, Inter Milan and Monaco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He made his comeback to Cagliari in January 2023, when the club was ranked 12th in Serie B and managed to secure their promotion during the play-offs. <\/p>\n<p>The team came from two goals down to beat Parma in the semi-final and win the final against Bari.<\/p>\n<p>Ranieri also spent time managing Roma. His work at <strong>Valencia<\/strong> encouraged the Spanish club to write a moving message in X, calling him \u201c<em>one of the most beloved coaches in the history of Valencia CF<\/em>\u201d and wishing him the very best.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Claudio L\u00f3pez reflects on Ranieri&#39;s winning stint in the Valencia CF dugout following his retirement announcement at the age of 72 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vpmXtiIDVj\">pic.twitter.com\/vpmXtiIDVj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Valencia CF (@valenciacf_en) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valenciacf_en\/status\/1793703869203247330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Another former club, <strong>Napoli<\/strong>, took it to their social media account to thank Ranieri while calling him \u201c<em>a true professional and a man of such noble values<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for everything, Ranieri. A true professional and a man of such noble values \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DV6GNIHrge\">pic.twitter.com\/DV6GNIHrge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Official SSC Napoli (@en_sscnapoli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/en_sscnapoli\/status\/1793005047942377568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Claudio Ranieri is getting ready to bid farewell to Cagliari and retire from club management. He will put an end to a four-decade career during which he was in charge of 18 club sides. Cagliari\u2019s Serie A status is guaranteed in time for Ranieri&#8217;s last match. After helping Italy\u2019s Cagliari to preserve its position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Claudio Ranieri to Exit Cagliari and Retire from Club Management Career<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Claudio Ranieri has announced his upcoming exit from Cagliari and retirement from club management.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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