Ranieri wins League Managers' award

Claudio Ranieri was named the League Managers' Association (LMA) manager of the year on Monday after leading 5,000-1 outsiders LeicesterCity to an improbable Premier League title.

The 64-year-old is only the second non-British or Irish manager to win the accolade after Frenchman Arsene Wenger won it with Arsenal in 2002 and 2004.

The award capped a day of celebration for the Italian as he joined the players in a victory parade on an open-top bus through the streets of Leicester in front of about 250,000 ecstatic fans.

Under Ranieri's guidance, Leicester won their first ever top flight title.

Image: Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri after receiving the LMA Manager Of The Year 2016 award in London on Monday

Photograph: Action Images/Alan Walter/ Livepic

Source: REUTERS
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