Rolando Maran

Rolando Maran
	Maran with Chievo in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Rolando Maran
Date of birth	14 July 1963 (age 60)
Place of birth	Trento, Italy
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Brescia (head coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1983–1986	Benacense Riva
1986–1995	Chievo
1995	Valdagno
1995–1996	Carrarese
1996–1997	Fano
Total
Managerial career
2002–2005	Cittadella
2005–2006	Brescia
2006–2007	Bari
2007–2009	Triestina
2009–2010	Vicenza
2010–2011	Vicenza
2011–2012	Varese
2012–2013	Catania
2014	Catania
2014–2018	Chievo
2018–2020	Cagliari
2020	Genoa
2022	Pisa
2023–	Brescia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rolando Maran (born 14 July 1963) is an Italian football manager who is the current head coach of Serie B club Brescia.

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 years

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 number 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]

Back to Serie B: Pisa and Brescia

On 23 June 2022, Serie B club Pisa announced to have hired Maran as their new head coach.^[20] He was however sacked on 19 September 2022, leaving Pisa at the bottom of the league table after six games.^[21]

On 14 November 2023, Maran was hired by Brescia as their new head coach for the ongoing season.^[22]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 18 May 2024

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	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
Pisa		23 June 2022	19 September 2022	7	0	2	5	8	15	−7	000.00
Brescia		14 November 2023	Present	27	9	11	7	37	32	+5	033.33
Career total				734	248	218	268	855	902	−47	033.79

References

^ "Comunicato Ufficiale N. 40" [Official Press Release No. 40] (PDF). Lega Serie A. 21 September 2015. p. 4. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
^ Lega Serie A profile
^ "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.
^ "Zeman ricomincia da Brescia" [Zeman starts again at Brescia]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 5 March 2006. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
^ "Bari: Materazzi nuovo tecnico" [Bari: Materazzi new manager]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 26 February 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
^ Seu, Christian (13 June 2007). "UFFICIALE: Triestina, Maran nuovo allenatore" [OFFICIAL: Triestina, Maran new manager] (in Italian). Tutto Mercato Web. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "Serie A: Catania sack coach Rolando Maran for second time". BBC Sport. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
^ "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.
^ "Official: Chievo sack Maran". 29 April 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
^ "Official: Cagliari appoint Maran". Football Italia. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
^ Bandini, Nicky (11 November 2019). "Radja Nainggolan and Cagliari are living the high life in dazzling style". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
^ "Comunicato della Società" (in Italian). Cagliari Calcio. 3 March 2020. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
^ "Official: Maran sacked by Cagliari". Football Italia. 3 March 2020.
^ "UFFICIALE: Genoa, scelto il nuovo tecnico. Maran ha firmato per due anni" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
^ "Official: Genoa sack Maran". Football Italia. 21 December 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
^ "COMUNICATO SOCIETARIO (23 GIUGNO 2022)" (in Italian). Pisa S.C. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
^ "Comunicato Societario" (in Italian). Pisa S.C. 19 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
^ "ROLANDO MARAN È IL NUOVO ALLENATORE DEL BRESCIA" (in Italian). Brescia Calcio. 14 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.