Edy Reja
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Edoardo Reja | ||
| Date of birth | 10 October 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Lucinico, Gorizia, Italy | ||
| Height | 1,77 | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1963–1968 | SPAL | 70 | (2) |
| 1968–1973 | Palermo | 124 | (1) |
| 1973–1975 | Alessandria | 76 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1979–1980 | Molinella | ||
| 1980–1981 | Monselice | ||
| 1981–1982 | Pordenone | ||
| 1982–1983 | Monselice | ||
| 1983–1984 | Pro Gorizia | ||
| 1984–1985 | Treviso | ||
| 1985–1986 | Mestre | ||
| 1986–1987 | Varese | ||
| 1987–1989 | Pescara (youth team) | ||
| 1989–1990 | Pescara | ||
| 1990–1992 | Cosenza | ||
| 1992–1993 | Verona | ||
| 1993–1994 | Bologna | ||
| 1994–1995 | Lecce | ||
| 1996–1997 | Brescia | ||
| 1997–1998 | Torino | ||
| 1998–2001 | Vicenza | ||
| 2001–2002 | Genoa | ||
| 2003 | Catania | ||
| 2003–2004 | Cagliari | ||
| 2005–2009 | Napoli | ||
| 2009–2010 | Hajduk Split | ||
| 2010–2012 | Lazio | ||
| 2014 | Lazio | ||
| 2015–2016 | Atalanta | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Edoardo "Edy" Reja (born 10 October 1945) is an Italian football coach and former player, who was last in charge of Atalanta B.C. in the Italian Serie A. Born in Lucinico (Slovene: Ločnik), Gorizia (Slovene: Gorica), Italy to a Slovene father and Friulian mother, Reja is fluent in all three local languages; Friulan, Italian and Slovene.
Reja began his career with the SPAL 1907 youth squad, coached by Paolo Mazza, playing in midfield alongside lifelong friend Fabio Capello, and other notable players such as Louis Pasetti and Adriano Zanier. Together, they helped the team win the 1963–64 Campaniato Nazionale Primavera. In 1965, Reja joined Capello in Serie A, in the SPAL 1907 first team, earning an appearance with the Italian U-23 squad. Reja played for two more teams, U.S. Città di Palermo and Alessandria in a long career that lasted until 1975, playing a total of 124 Serie A matches.
Reja started his coaching career in 1979 serving as boss of Serie D team Molinella. Next year he then coached Monselice of Serie C2. In 1989, he coached his first Serie B team, Pescara, of which he was previously the youth squad boss. He successively gained good successes in the same league with Cosenza, Lecce and Brescia, where he won the championship. In fact, he launched the career of notable footballer Andrea Pirlo at Brescia, where Pirlo was a regular member of the squad. However, Reja opted to give up the opportunity to coach Brescia in Serie A, preferring to accept an offer from Torino, another Serie B team, where he then missed promotion defeated in the promotion playoffs to Perugia after a penalty shootout.
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