Pictures: Claudio Ranieri's highs and lows
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Happier times - the Italian's first season in charge of Leicester City ended with success as he turned a team that narrowly avoided relegation into Premier League champions.
His team's victory led him to win Coach of the Year at the 2016 BBC Sports Personality awards.
Before Leicester, Claudio managed a whole host of other football clubs including Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan and another Premier League team, Chelsea. From 2000 to 2004 he took Chelsea to an FA Cup final and a Champions League semi-final.
Last season's Premier League win meant this season Leicester are in the Champions League too, playing against the top teams in Europe. So far they've made it through to the last 16 in the Champions League.
Claudio has become well known for some of the funny things he says to journalists about his team. One of the best known is 'Dilly Ding, Dilly Dong' - referring to him trying to keep his players focused by ringing an imaginary bell in training sessions.
He must love food - he offered free pizza if his team kept a clean sheet during a game. He said "I told them when we make a clean sheet I pay to everybody a pizza".
And then a butcher named a sausage in honour of the Leicester manager, Ranieri said: "I pay for pizza, you pay for the sausage... I am the sausageman."
But their performance in the Premier League this season has gone badly... After 26 games last year they were top of the table on 53 points - this season they are 17th after 25 games, with only 21 points. This pic is from Leicester's last Premier League match under the leadership of Ranieri - they lost 2-0 to Swansea City.
When Leicester won the Premier League, the club's chairman and vice-chairman seemed very pleased with the result. But today the vice-chairman, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, said though sacking Claudio was the "most difficult decision... we are duty-bound to the club's long-term interests above all sense of personal sentiment". So it's the end of the road for Ranieri at Leicester City, farewell Foxes!