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Extended Clip - Claudio Ranieri: From Leicester City Premier League Fairytale To Cagliari Miracle (Ep. 410)
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After yet another Serie A win at the death, Nima Tavallaey and Carlo Garganese pay tribute to former Premier League winning manager with Leicester City Claudio Ranieri, who is performing a miracle at Cagliari.
This is an extended clip from this weeks free Monday episode of The Italian Football Podcast which is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and YouTube.
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Ranieri's Miraculous Achievements with Callery
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Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast. Really, what I wanted to talk about here is Claudio Ranieri. I mean, what he is doing with Callery is a miracle. It's a miraculous escape.
Unexpected Serie A Entry: Callery's Journey
00:00:18
Speaker
If he manages to keep this Callery team up on paper, this Callery team are
00:00:24
Speaker
For me, they're in the BOP3 teams in Serie A. No doubt about it. You will not have any argument for me on that. You look at the team, you look at their attackers and you think, where are the goals going to come from? You look at the defence and you think, well, how do they keep the goals out? You know, I mean, it's not, it's a team, it's a team, it's a Serie B team. I mean, they shouldn't even be in Serie A. I mean, it was a miracle that they got promoted last season, wasn't it?
Late Goals and Dramatic Wins
00:00:50
Speaker
And they scored in the, was it the 90?
00:00:52
Speaker
5th minute to go up, wasn't it? It was bad, wasn't it? You're the Serie B expert here, Nima. Correct me if I'm wrong. It's a miracle what Ranieri has done. Now they're four points above the relegation zone. They're up to 13. But despite the lack of quality, they fight, they never give up.
00:01:17
Speaker
and listen to this, they scored with an 88th minute winner against Atalanta to win the game. The number of late goals from Callery this season is absolutely insane. It's insane. We talk about Fergie time, but this is Ranieri time. 88th minute winner against Atalanta to win the game. 96th minute
00:01:42
Speaker
equaliser to draw against Napoli a couple of weeks ago. Nineteen fourth and ninety ninth minute goals to turn a 0-1 deficit to a 2-1 win against Sassuolo.
00:01:57
Speaker
94th and 96th-minute goals to turn a 2-3 deficit against Frosinone into a 4-3 win. 120th-minute winner to beat Udeneir in the competition. 94th-minute goal away against Bari to get to the Serie A under Ranieri.
Ranieri's Legacy: Leicester to Callery
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Speaker
This is Ranieri time. It's never mind Fergie time, it's Ranieri time.
00:02:26
Speaker
And it's, it's, it's truly remarkable what he's doing. And I agree with you. The fact that he scores so many late goals, the fact that he scores, that his team, his Caliari scores so many important late goals. I mean, that came against Frozino and it was, it was mental.
00:02:47
Speaker
the 3-0 down to 4-3. That's one of the most insane games I've seen ever in the city. That's the game of the season. There's no doubt about it. Yeah, that is the game of the season. That was batshit. It was just absolutely crazy. And to see him at Caliari of all places as well, to see him
00:03:09
Speaker
be able to bring them back to the seria and by all accounts i mean we can't say anything i know the 13th on 30 points but it's only four points down to the relegation with frozen order sitting there so anything can still happen but it is looking like they could go down sorry they could stay up sorry and that would be a miracle because like you said this squad is not good enough to to uh
00:03:37
Speaker
like, they're not 13th good, to put it that way. No, it's his miracle. I mean, he's a coach that has performed the biggest miracle in the history of, well, for me, not only the Premier League, I mean, it's definitely the biggest miracle in Premier League history winning the Premier League title of Leicester City. For me, it's the biggest miracle pound for pound in
00:04:00
Speaker
in English football history, maybe in the history of football.
Ranieri's Resilience and Character
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Speaker
It shouldn't be able to happen. It shouldn't be able to happen that a team like Leicester City win the Premier League with all the money and the advantages that the top teams in the Premier League have.
00:04:19
Speaker
you know, Manchester City and Arsenal and Chelsea and Manchester United and Liverpool. I mean, it should be impossible to do what he did with that Leicester City team that nearly got relegated the season before, only just to manage to stay up the season before. And then he wins the Premier League with them. I mean,
00:04:38
Speaker
I mean, that's a miracle. I don't know whether you can put calorie. I don't think anything will match that. Not even this calorie will match that. But this is a miracle in itself. And he's 72 years old. He's 73 later this year. He's still doing it. I mean, his story, they need to make a film on Claudia Ranieri. They have to. They need to make a movie.
00:04:59
Speaker
on Claudio Ranieri because his story is just amazing. He's 72. He's been a manager since 1986. He's coached, I don't know how many teams, he's I think 22 teams or he's had 22 different managerial jobs.
00:05:16
Speaker
I mean, it's unbelievable what he's done. And he's such a great guy as well. He's such a lovely person. He really is. It's incredible. He was managing Calgary in Serie A.
00:05:31
Speaker
33 years ago, he was managing calorie and he returns to them in Serie A.
Ranieri's Future: Retire or Continue?
00:05:41
Speaker
He's such a lovely human being too. He's one of the good guys in football and a true gentleman.
00:05:51
Speaker
it's so, who's been so kind of mistreated in a way as a perpetual loser, always the bridesmaid, never the bride kind of thing. And I just, it's what he's doing with Caliari now and his Caliari, like I said, that's what I was alluding to the fact that he was coaching them before. I think it's beautiful. And it's the fact that he keeps them on, keeps them up, which I think is very close to doing is fantastic. And I wonder,
00:06:18
Speaker
what they how do they where do they go from now i mean did they continue with him like does he want to continue or does the perfect time for him to go out on a high right off into the sunset yeah but then you know you don't know maybe this is this is what keeps him happy this is what he loves doing like rue hodgson
00:06:38
Speaker
Roy Hodgson kept going. Roy Hodgson in the 70s obviously had some health issues recently and he had to... I thought it was horribly the way that that was dealt with by the club and the fans and everything. Absolutely disgusting behaviour with Crystal Palace. He left them eventually. But does he keep going and keep going until he's literally not well enough to do it?
00:06:59
Speaker
Or does he, I don't know. I mean, I guess at the end of the day, I think it's probably, it's up to him at the end of the day. If he keeps Callery up, it can be his decision, what he does. Yeah, for sure, for sure. A miracle. And yeah, eight points this season, one with goals from the 88 minute onwards in Serie A.
00:07:23
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eight points. I mean, that's almost 30% of their points have been claimed in basically an injury time. It's unbelievable. Yeah, so that's a great story.