Leicester
City manager Claudio Ranieri is to be knighted in Italy for his shock Premier
League title triumph this season.
The
64-year-old masterminded one of the biggest shocks in the history of the sport
as his unfancied Leicester side won their first ever English top flight title
just a year after narrowly surviving relegation.
And
the former Chelsea boss will now be granted the third highest ranking of
Italian Knights by president Sergio Mattarella for ‘merits acquired by the
nation’ in sports.
The
title sits a level above what Italy’s players received for World Cup wins in
1982 and 2006.
This
is a richly deserved honour for Ranieri, who has unsurprisingly been named LMA
Manager of the Year and even been tipped for a possible knighthood in the UK.
The
Italian is also sure to go down forever as a legend in Leicester, with a local
couple recently naming their daughter after him! Congrats to him.
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