Andrea Ranocchia

[MANTA]

He is getting better and better. Good to see the club put their faith in him.

 

[Kraits]

Good game... Happy for him and Juan, Samuel is beast today too....

 

[exozizo]

it's his through pass that lead to Cassano's goal right? I'm happy for him too

 

[santon48]

well, get rid of lucio and trusting ranocchia to start week in and week out really one of the great move inter made this season

 

[Choppin Onions]

Continuing to pay back the faith our club has in him. He looks like a different player than the one we saw last two seasons. Like night and day different.

 

[Pajo]

B E A S T!

Currently the best Italian defender, in this form. He has grown and got matured A LOT. GRANDE RANO!

 

[Pimpin]

I am too lazy to find posts of ppl that laughed at me whenever I said Rano will be the shiyet, yall can suck on these big albanian nuts

 

[William]

The partnership of Rano (who has just transformed into a beast in defence) and Juan (nuff said) surely has blown the expectations of even the board and Moratti. There's no way they could have thought, during the summer, that this wall would be so formidable so soon. Wasn't that why we signed silvestre? Till Juan developed or was ready?

 

[chipschups]

when lucio terminated contract, strama made Ranochia is our first CB
and nobody will though that juan will grow that fast to become great partnership for rano
turning point is, when rano-juan is still inexperience and look clumsy sometimes
strama sacrifice his tactics and gives samuel place to give our young CB great mentoring,,

 

[Ed.]

I'd say Lucio terminated his contract BECAUSE Ranocchia was already selected as first CB. The reason Lucio left because Stramaccioni offered him a bench role and Branca offered a lower wage.

 

[IRR26]

Is Ranocchia Italy material?

Andrea Ranocchia is once again in the Italy squad. Adam Scime discusses the centre-back’s return to form and whether he deserves his latest Azzurri chance.

When Italy boss Cesare Prandelli released his selections for the national team ahead of their World Cup 2014 qualifying clashes against Armenia and Denmark, few will have been more satisfied than Andrea Ranocchia to be included in the 27-man list.

The 24-year-old defender has endured a chequered early part to his career. His breakout campaign on loan at Bari from Genoa in 2009-10 was halted by a season-ending knee injury, robbing him of contention for a place at the World Cup showpiece in South Africa, but that did not stop Inter from seeing his promise and snapping him up on a co-ownership deal just a few months later.

A year after, the Nerazzurri purchased the other half of his registration rights from Genoa, valuing the player at €19m in total and, despite some fine performances during his first half-season on the black-and-blue side of San Siro, his next was one perhaps better left forgotten.

Injury problems and poor form limited the stopper to just 15 appearances in all competitions. His performances were a mini-reflection of Inter’s 2011-12 – error prone, lacking quality and simply lost on occasion. He was anything but first choice under the Serie A side’s merry-go-round of Coaches that included Gian Piero Gasperini, Claudio Ranieri and Andrea Stramaccioni during that campaign, playing second fiddle to veterans Lucio, Walter Samuel and even Cristian Chivu at times.

As a result, despite featuring prominently on the road to Euro 2012 in qualifying, he was dropped for the Finals in Poland and Ukraine. That is the past though and he is now hitting higher notes once more for his club.

Following another solid performance as the 10-man Nerazzurri held off Derby della Madonnina rivals Milan – to keep a clean sheet and earn a precious 1-0 victory that keeps them joint-third place in the League – Ranocchia has now started every Serie A match this season and he’s also featured prominently in the Europa League. He is looking fitter, more confident and a better overall defender, especially in Inter’s new three-man backline.

“Is my positive start to the season a message for Prandelli? No, it’s for Inter,” he explained in September. “If I continue to play as well as I have been doing this season then maybe Italy will come calling for me again.”

And his statement was as accurate as some of his excellent challenges this season. The Azzurri CT has given him another chance to prove his worth.

While Ranocchia is fantastic in the air and has a well-developed understanding of how to defend, he does have his limitations. His struggles typically emanate from a lack of acceleration or from tight situations with the ball at his feet. His short-range passing can be inaccurate and his kicked clearances sloppy when he is not fully focused.

However, the player’s recall is a perfect example of Prandelli’s meritocracy pledge in full effect. When he was performing poorly, La Nazionale’s tactician made the decision to leave him at home. Now that he is threatening to become one of Serie A’s top defenders once again he has been given the chance to show what he can do for his country.

For those who clamour for the likes of defenders at the level of Franco Baresi, Fabio Cannavaro, Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Nesta, you should stop living in the past. Those types of near-flawless stoppers are simply not available on the current Italian football landscape. Prandelli works in the present and that, for now, means Andrea Ranocchia.

http://www.football-italia.net/25954/ranocchia-italy-material


IMO very ridiculous question in the title.

Also there is no point to glorify the retired legends and then compare them to modern player. At the moment Rano is doing so well that only the sky is the limit and that young brazilian guy aint doing that bad either. Inter's defence looks very promising.

 

[santon48]

Is Ranocchia Italy material?

Injury problems and poor form limited the stopper to just 15 appearances in all competitions. His performances were a mini-reflection of Inter’s 2011-12 – error prone, lacking quality and simply lost on occasion. He was anything but first choice under the Serie A side’s merry-go-round of Coaches that included Gian Piero Gasperini, Claudio Ranieri and Andrea Stramaccioni during that campaign, playing second fiddle to veterans Lucio, Walter Samuel and even Cristian Chivu at times.


Following another solid performance as the 10-man Nerazzurri held off Derby della Madonnina rivals Milan – to keep a clean sheet and earn a precious 1-0 victory that keeps them joint-third place in the League – Ranocchia has now started every Serie A match this season and he’s also featured prominently in the Europa League. He is looking fitter, more confident and a better overall defender, especially in Inter’s new three-man backline.

While Ranocchia is fantastic in the air and has a well-developed understanding of how to defend, he does have his limitations. His struggles typically emanate from a lack of acceleration or from tight situations with the ball at his feet. His short-range passing can be inaccurate and his kicked clearances sloppy when he is not fully focused.

However, the player’s recall is a perfect example of Prandelli’s meritocracy pledge in full effect. When he was performing poorly, La Nazionale’s tactician made the decision to leave him at home. Now that he is threatening to become one of Serie A’s top defenders once again he has been given the chance to show what he can do for his country.

For those who clamour for the likes of defenders at the level of Franco Baresi, Fabio Cannavaro, Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Nesta, you should stop living in the past. Those types of near-flawless stoppers are simply not available on the current Italian football landscape. Prandelli works in the present and that, for now, means Andrea Ranocchia.

nah I'm gutted, I have nothing against the author whatsoever, but this this article is a perfect example of someone who barely watched andrea ranocchia this season and judged him, yup...I agree when he said the 2011-2012 ranocchia was error prone or lack quality, but to said nowadays ranocchia were sloppy when it comes to clearance and inaccurate short range passes, it's really a complete ignorance of his improvement today, ok please tell me how many missplace passes ranocchia made this season? sorry but ranocchia improved a lot when it comes to passing, in fact if we compare his passing ability with any defenders in serie a now, I'll confidently said ranocchia has a good passing ability.

"His struggles typically emanate from a lack of acceleration or from tight situations with the ball at his feet", this argumentation was debatable, because the current ranocchia look a lot more comfortable with the ball in his feet, I've seen couple of occasion when he bringing the ball forward and got past few players, and to said his struggle from a tight situation with the ball at his feet showed anothers complete ignorance of his improvement by the author , and about the lack of acceleration, hmm, yes he struggle a little bid when he faced pacey players, but so far his defensive awareness and his great physical fitness help him to deal with pacey players, but this notion is quite debatable, I need to watch him a lot more, especially when he play against pacey players.

it's like either the writer saw a youtube video from 2011-2012 season or only saw ranocchia youtube compilation video this season, if the writer wanted to properly judge ranocchia then please try to watch his games for the whole 90 minutes, all of the matches, and then let's talk....
I have absolutely no problem if he or she included the historical background of andrea ranocchia, but don't made that past performances biased your judgment. and the sentence, "you should stop living in the past", is better directed to the writer rather than to the readers, had he or she wrote this in 2011-2012, I have no problem, but he or she wrote this at 2012-2013, when ranocchia showed immense improvement

and for ranocchia : please kid don't let your perfomance dip

 

[thatdude]

Completely agree, it seems this author is just writing off rumors. Like oh I heard he's slow on the turn an he's awkward due to his height. Very lazy journalism. Rano is one of the more composed center backs in the league and second only to Chivu on our team with the ball at his feet. Rano got a lot of hate quickly due to playing or Inter and not Milan or Juve, and you can tell it annoys some people to see him playing so well, so he'll only get half credit until he does it for the Azzurri. (Which he always has)

 

[MANTA]

Gazzetta is saying that Ranocchia might be tied up with new match fixing allegations

 

[Universe]

 

[NeonBlade]

Gazzetta is saying that Ranocchia might be tied up with new match fixing allegations

They are desperate as fuck with that one. No one is taking Ranocchia away from us!

 

[MANTA]

Apparently the latest set of evidence is also linked to Bari during the Conte era. More evidence of a match being fixed.

What the hell was going on in Bari back then?

 

[rockball]

I read that the entire team was involved, but Ranocchia didn't take money. If the entire team is involved, they how can Bonucci go scot free? And Conte have his ban reduced

 

[peace_e]

I saw on one AC Milan portal that Milan is intested for singing Ranocchia and it could be another player exchange, Zapata and Acerbi for Ranoccia

 

[Pajo]

Yeah, i've read that Rano refused the money and passed them to Iacovelli, whoever that guy is. But he might be prosecuted for knowing

Oh ffs, what the fuck is wrong with them? Are they afraid Rano will take the spot from Bonucci in the NT or something? Just when he started to play as we all know he can...

---------- Post added at 10:45 ---------- Previous post was at 10:44 ----------

I saw on one AC Milan portal that Milan is intested for singing Ranocchia and it could be another player exchange, Zapata and Acerbi for Ranoccia

Bull shit. Not gonna happen.