The journalist Enrico Pilia dedicated a long and accurate reflection on the Cagliari coach Claudio Ranieri. Her words
The journalist Enrico Pilia dedicated a long and accurate reflection for today’s edition of The Sardinian Union, on the rossoblù coach. Yesterday the coach of Cagliari Claudio Ranieri announced that the match against Fiorentina will be his last match on the Sardinian bench. He leaves after another promotion and another salvation, yet another masterpiece of a prodigious career to be admired. His words:
«Mr Ranieri leaves the scene as he entered, “I come for Sardinia, for Gigi” and so on, one match after another, “I need time”, or perhaps “we will give our best, then we’ll see”. The same style in good times and bad, a kind of secular marriage with a land, a people, a team. Especially with a people, because this gentleman appears – by acclamation – more Sardinian than many Sardinians. And at this point it doesn’t seem like blasphemy if once again from football, from Cagliari, we bring out another continental, another man whose figure emerges domineering, shouted, celebrated.
Mr. Ranieri leaves a bench that will forever be his, indelible, which is no small thing in a planet where you are an idiot if you lose and a football guru when you beat Frosinone. Like it or not, it is once again football, often treated like an illness and placed in a corner, in the last pages, compared to the big issues and the highest systems, which gives us an example, someone to trust”.
