davieG Posted 20 May 2016 Posted 20 May 2016 Italian president Sergio Mattarella will honour the coach after he won the Premier League with Leicester City, giving him a rank above the 1982 and 2006 World Cup winners Leicester City's surprise Premier League title win has earned the team and its heroes a great deal of praise and accolades recently, but coach Claudio Ranieri has been given the highest honour of them all so far, as he is about to be Knighted in Italy.The 64-year-old guided the Foxes to their first ever English crown in an unexpected achievement this season and the country's prime minister Matteo Renzi had called for him to be given a national honour.And Ranieri will be rewarded with the third highest ranking of Italian Knights by president Sergio Mattarella for "merits acquired by the nation" in sports. The honour Ranieri will receive is one level higher than that given to the players who won the World Cup with Italy in 1982 and 2006.The coach has some esteemed company in holding the title Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, with former USA president John F. Kennedy, opera singers Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli, Argentine writer Jose Luis Borges, ex-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani and film director and writer Federico Fellini all sharing the honour.
davieG Posted 20 May 2016 Author Posted 20 May 2016 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I went to bury Spurs, not to praise them.
foxy boxing Posted 20 May 2016 Posted 20 May 2016 nice one claudio, we are every italians second favourite team now?
GloverFox Posted 20 May 2016 Posted 20 May 2016 Top-drawer my dear fellow ... or whatever they say in Italian ... Bloody 'Top-Drawer'!
JerryLundegaard Posted 20 May 2016 Posted 20 May 2016 Top-drawer my dear fellow ... or whatever they say in Italian ... Bloody 'Top-Drawer'! Top drawer-o I'm guessing
GloverFox Posted 21 May 2016 Posted 21 May 2016 viva la volpe folle! ... Living the crazy Fox .... Perhaps .... vivere il sogno folle volpe ! ... and keep on dreaming, it's still making me buzz with excitement!
norwichfox Posted 21 May 2016 Posted 21 May 2016 Good for Claudio, any positive award is well deserved...prime minister of England should be next....
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