Edoardo Reja
By: Joe | July 5th, 2007
One look at Napoli’s manager and you know Edoardo Reja “Edy” has been around a while. A new one year deal will insure he’ll be around for at least another year (or until Napoli hit an extended losing streak in Serie A). Both direttore generale Pier Paulo Marino and Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentis are loyal to the man who guided Napoli to two straight promotions from Serie C1 to Serie A. Napoli hired Reja when De Laurentis bought the squad and attempted to resurrect the once proud partenopei franchise.
Reja started his playing career back in 1963 with Spal and ended it in 1980 with Alessandria. He immediately embarked on his managerial career with Molinella and spent the next most of the 1980’s coaching small Serie C/D sides for a year (Monselice, Pro Gorizia, Monselice) before he began getting some noteriety and pulling down some bigger gigs. In the 90’s and early 2000’s he coached bigger teams such as Lecce, Hellas Verona, Cosenza, Brescia, Genoa & Torino. His claim to fame was his promotions to Serie A while at Brescia, Vicenza and Cagliari. He’s now taken his fourth team up to Serie A with the work he’s done with Napoli. The fact that he didn’t stick around very long with those squads after leading them to Serie A is a big concern.
To me, Reja has always seemed like he reminds me of someone. I wracked my brains and come up with this: Edy Reja is the love child of actors Peter Stormare and Lee Marvin.
Reja seems to fall in love with certain players and will stick with them months after they’ve displayed an alarming inability to maintain whatever form it was that got them into the lineup in the first place. His fascination with Francesco Montervino and Gianluca Grava were particularly disturbing this year. The players were routinely outclassed by other players but Edy kept throwing them out there.
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Well i believe that if fiorentina could do it napoli will do it
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