Anyone who has talked about football with a fan of a Premier League team will have noticed the strong rivalry between English and Italian teams. A continuous discussion to defend their team and their league, discussions that never lead to a common agreement given the huge difference between the two styles of play, the romantic Italian "catenaccio" against the English "kick and hope", the tactics against running, in short, two different worlds.
Yet one man managed to make a fairytale. His name is Claudio Ranieri, a coach capable of uniting two worlds, creating the most beautiful football history of modern football, an Italian in England, more precisely in Leicester.
Claudio Ranieri
Leicester's tale is having won the first Premier League of its history, against all odds (the odds of Leicester winning at the beginning of the championship was 5000: 1), a small team from a city unknown to many, managed to beat the champions and millions of teams from Manchester and London.
The story is certainly thanks to all the players, from goalkeeper Schmeichel (son of the United legend) to Jamie Vardy (top scorer of the team), passing through Mahrez (paid 400 thousand euros and now best player in the Premier League) and Kantè (according to Ranieri has 4 lungs), but above all a win of Claudio Ranieri, labeled as "eternal second”, Who managed to make these players almost rejected by the football that counts, champions of England. In short, a victory for a group that has become almost a family, as seen yesterday when the whole team was gathered to watch Chelsea-Tottenham at Vardy's home, almost looking like a group of friends and fans, and not the English champion team.
A fairytale too good not to go around the world!
You know, in Italy football is passion and feeling, and a story like this cannot go unnoticed, so much so that all of Italy celebrated the fabulous victory of Claudio Ranieri and his Leicester, even organizing trips to Leicester to celebrate this special victory directly in England, the victory of the people against the billions of modern football, the victory of the "underdogs" against the English giants, and above all the victory of Claudio Ranieri.
Now it is not known what will happen to this Leicester, if the strongest will leave, if next year they will finish in mid-table or even worse to fight for relegation, but what is sure is that they have given a dream to all football fans (except for Tottenham for their bad luck), but above all that this club, Ranieri and these players will remain forever in history.
