Genoa in the destiny of Claudio Ranieri with the colors of Roma. If a 4-3 defeat a Marassi it was fatal for the coach in his first experience on the Giallorossi bench, it was always a defeat Marassi against Genoa to introduce the talented Giallorossi defender in his debut in Serie A.
It was November 4, 1973 and the young Claudio made his debut in the team at the time coached by Manlio Scopigno. It ended 2-1, Roma’s third consecutive defeat. Scopigno complained after the match that his rearguard was too cheerful and impractical (“The stylists do too much in defence: they play hard rather than throwing the balls into the stands”). Scopigno the philosopher, Scopigno the hero of Cagliari who less than three years earlier had won the scudetto with Gigi Riva. Claudio Ranieri made his debut in that defense.
At the end of the race the correspondent of Corriere dello Sport Gianni Perrelli asks Ranieri if he was demoralized and if the fact that the first goal was scored by Corradi, his direct opponent, also had something to do with his worry. “No, on the first sol I don’t think I’m at fault. I feel down, because he’s lost. It’s bad to start with a defeat. Even though Lo Bello complimented me”.
Ranieri’s debut for Roma, at the “Marassi” against Genoa
It was Concetto Lo Bello, one of the greatest referees in the history of Italian football. In that Rome there were Ginulfi, Morini, Rocca, Batistoni; Santarini, Domenghini, Di Bartolomei, Cappellini, Cordova and Prati. He took the field with the number 2 shirt. On the other side of the barricade another future Roma icon played: Roberto Pruzzo.
Claudio Ranieri was born in 1951, he was born in Testaccio, not far from the center and not far from the sea, a few hundred meters from the old slaughterhouse. Claudio’s father had a butcher’s shop, a simple family, simple values, those that Ranieri carried with him throughout his life and which are also the backbone of his work as a coach. The pitch of the Salesian parish, those near Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice.
He used to travel around Rome by bicycle until his father gave him one Gilera 125. From Roma’s youth team and his first team debut Claudio took off, and 50 years later he is still flying in Serie A.
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