Rolando Maran

Rolando Maran (born 14 July 1963) is an Italian football manager who was last the head coach of Genoa.

Rolando Maran
Maran with Chievo in 2015
Personal information
Full name Rolando Maran[1]
Date of birth (1963-07-14) 14 July 1963
Place of birth Trento, Italy
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1986 Benacense Riva 87 (7)
1986–1995 Chievo 280 (11)
1995 Valdagno 10 (0)
1995–1996 Carrarese 23 (0)
1996–1997 Fano 28 (2)
Total 428 (20)
Teams managed
2002–2005 Cittadella
2005–2006 Brescia
2006–2007 Bari
2007–2009 Triestina
2009–2011 Vicenza
2011–2012 Varese
2012–2013 Catania
2014 Catania
2014–2018 Chievo
2018–2020 Cagliari
2020 Genoa
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

His playing career as a defender was spent mostly with Chievo. He then managed several Serie B clubs, and after losing the promotion play-off final with Varese in 2012, had his first Serie A job with Catania.

Maran led Catania to a best-ever 8th place in his first season. Also in the top-flight, he had four seasons in charge of Chievo before leading Cagliari from 2018 to 2020.

Playing career

Maran played for Benacense Riva, Chievo, Valdagno, Carrarese and Fano. He spent nine years at Chievo from 1986 to 1995.[2]

Coaching career

Serie B

After retiring as a player in 1997, Maran started his coaching career in 1997 at his former side Chievo as a coach, he joined Brescia as a youth coach in 1998 and stayed there for two years before becoming the youth coach at Cittadella in 2000. Two years later, he became that club's first-team manager.

Maran became manager of newly relegated Serie B club Brescia on 5 July 2005 on a one-year contract.[3] The following 5 March, with the team in 5th, he was replaced by Zdenek Zeman.[4]

He joined Serie B club Bari in 2006, where he was sacked and replaced by Giuseppe Materazzi in February 2007 with the team in 13th.[5]

Maran joined Triestina in June 2007,[6] and two years later he joined fellow Serie B side Vicenza. He helped them avoid relegation. On 15 June 2010, his contract was extended for a further two years, but he was dismissed just under a year later.

In October 2011, Maran joined struggling Varese, replacing Benito Carbone as head coach.[7] He led them to the playoffs; however they lost out on promotion to Serie A to Sampdoria, 4–2 on aggregate.[8]

Serie A

On 11 June 2012, Maran joined Serie A club Catania.[9] He took them to 8th place in a record-breaking season where they accrued 56 points from 38 matches. The season also saw Catania take a record amount of home wins in one season, its record number of victories overall in a single top flight campaign, as well as its record points total in Serie A for the fifth consecutive season.

Maran was dismissed on 20 October 2013 after a 1–2 loss to Cagliari that left Catania in the relegation zone, and replaced by Luigi De Canio.[10] He returned on 15 January, before being sacked for the second time later on 6 April, after five defeats in a row and with the team bottom of the league.[11]

On 19 October 2014, Maran was named new head coach of former club Chievo, replacing Eugenio Corini.[12] He was sacked on 29 April 2018, weeks before the end of his contract; the team was on the brink of the relegation zone having taken 11 points from the last 21 games.[13]

On 7 June 2018, Maran was appointed manager of Cagliari on a two-year contract.[14] His side won seven of their first 12 games to challenge for a Champions League place in November; the only time the Sardinians had started so well was when they won the league for the only time in 1969–70.[15] This form did not continue into the second half of the season, and on 3 March 2020, he was fired by Cagliari after a run of 12 consecutive games without a league win.[16][17]

On 26 August 2020, Maran signed a two-year contract with Genoa.[18] On 21 December 2020, Maran was sacked.[19]

Managerial statistics
As of match played 20 December 2020
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Cittadella 1 July 2002 3 July 2005 131 49 43 39 157 133 +24 037.40
Brescia 4 July 2005 5 March 2006 36 15 14 7 51 33 +18 041.67
Bari 7 June 2006 25 February 2007 25 7 8 10 21 23 −2 028.00
Triestina 13 June 2007 15 June 2009 89 31 25 33 111 117 −6 034.83
Vicenza 16 June 2009 28 March 2010 33 9 12 12 33 33 +0 027.27
Vicenza 15 April 2010 6 June 2011 52 20 12 20 53 61 −8 038.46
Varese 1 October 2011 11 June 2012 39 20 9 10 60 40 +20 051.28
Catania 11 June 2012 20 October 2013 50 18 14 18 61 64 −3 036.00
Catania 16 January 2014 6 April 2014 13 1 4 8 11 23 −12 007.69
Chievo 19 October 2014 29 April 2018 148 44 41 63 149 196 −47 029.73
Cagliari 7 June 2018 3 March 2020 69 22 19 28 86 104 −18 031.88
Genoa 26 August 2020 21 December 2020 15 3 4 8 17 28 −11 020.00
Career total 700 239 205 256 810 855 −45 034.14

References
  1. "Comunicato Ufficiale N. 40" [Official Press Release No. 40] (PDF). Lega Serie A. 21 September 2015. p. 4. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  2. Lega Serie A profile
  3. "Maran: "Un sogno che si realizza"" [Maran: "A dream that came true"]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 5 July 2005. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  4. "Zeman ricomincia da Brescia" [Zeman starts again at Brescia]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 5 March 2006. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  5. "Bari: Materazzi nuovo tecnico" [Bari: Materazzi new manager]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 26 February 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  6. Seu, Christian (13 June 2007). "UFFICIALE: Triestina, Maran nuovo allenatore" [OFFICIAL: Triestina, Maran new manager] (in Italian). Tutto Mercato Web. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  7. "Il Varese esonera Carbone Arriva subito Maran" [Varese sack Carbone Maran arrives immediately]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 1 October 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  8. "La Samp espugna Varese e riconquista la A, purgatorio finito" [Samp defeat Varese and reconquer A, purgatory over] (in Italian). Sky Sport. 9 June 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  9. "UFFICIALE: Maran è il nuovo tecnico del Catania" [OFFICIAL: Maran is the new Catania manager] (in Italian). ITA Sport Press. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  10. "Rolando Maran sollevato dall'incarico. Luigi De Canio è il nuovo allenatore della prima squadra" [Rolando Maran dismissed from managerial role. Luigi De Canio is the new first team head coach] (in Italian). Calcio Catania. 20 October 2013. Archived from the original on 25 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  11. "Serie A: Catania sack coach Rolando Maran for second time". BBC Sport. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  12. "Comunicato ufficiale: Rolando Maran è il nuovo allenatore della Prima squadra" (in Italian). AC ChievoVerona. 19 October 2014. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  13. "Official: Chievo sack Maran". 29 April 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  14. "Official: Cagliari appoint Maran". Football Italia. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  15. Bandini, Nicky (11 November 2019). "Radja Nainggolan and Cagliari are living the high life in dazzling style". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  16. "Comunicato della Società" (in Italian). Cagliari Calcio. 3 March 2020. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  17. "Official: Maran sacked by Cagliari". Football Italia. 3 March 2020.
  18. "UFFICIALE: Genoa, scelto il nuovo tecnico. Maran ha firmato per due anni". Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  19. "Official: Genoa sack Maran". 21 December 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
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