 Maran withChievo in 2015 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rolando Maran[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1963-07-14)14 July 1963 (age 62) | ||
| Place of birth | Trento, Italy | ||
| Position | 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) | |
| 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 | ||
| 2023–2024 | Brescia | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Rolando Maran (born 14 July 1963) is an Italianfootballmanager.
His playing career as adefender was spent mostly withChievo. He then managed severalSerie B clubs, and after losing the promotion play-off final withVarese in 2012, had his firstSerie A job withCatania.
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 leadingCagliari from 2018 to 2020.
Maran played for Benacense Riva,Chievo,Valdagno,Carrarese andFano. He spent nine years at Chievo from 1986 to 1995.[2]
After retiring as a player in 1997, Maran started his coaching career in 1997 at his former side Chievo as a coach, he joinedBrescia as a youth coach in 1998 and stayed there for two years before becoming the youth coach atCittadella in 2000. Two years later, he became that club's first-team manager.
Maran became manager of newly relegatedSerie B clubBrescia on 5 July 2005 on a one-year contract.[3] The following 5 March, with the team in 5th, he was replaced byZdenek Zeman.[4]
He joinedSerie B clubBari in 2006, where he was sacked and replaced byGiuseppe Materazzi in February 2007 with the team in 13th.[5]
Maran joinedTriestina in June 2007,[6] and two years later he joined fellow Serie B sideVicenza. 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 strugglingVarese, replacingBenito Carbone as head coach.[7] He led them to the playoffs; however they lost out on promotion toSerie A toSampdoria, 4–2 on aggregate.[8]
On 11 June 2012, Maran joined Serie A clubCatania.[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 toCagliari that left Catania in the relegation zone, and replaced byLuigi 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, replacingEugenio 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 ofCagliari 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 theSardinians had started so well was when they won the league for the only time in1969–70.[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 withGenoa.[18] On 21 December 2020, Maran was sacked.[19]
On 23 June 2022,Serie B clubPisa 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 byBrescia as their new head coach for the ongoing season.[22] He was dismissed on 9 December 2024, following a 1–2 loss againstCatanzaro.[23]
| 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 |
| Pisa | | 23 June 2022 | 19 September 2022 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 15 | −7 | 000.00 |
| Brescia | | 14 November 2023 | Present | 32 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 43 | 37 | +6 | 037.50 |
| Career total | 739 | 251 | 218 | 270 | 861 | 907 | −46 | 033.96 | |||