var playerInfo={"033EA04110C4B96A":"1","76E5DE99890AB189":"","1E9A8D352C52FB60DE0D25B327F8FD01":"2019-4-17","C9B224F2C5B356EF":"Albania","4931588B4E3083E863A5C74E5EDB35F1":"<P><STRONG><EM>Player<BR><\/EM><\/STRONG>Reja started his career with the youth team of SPAL, playing in midfield alongside lifelong friend Fabio Capello. Together, they helped the team to the 1963&#8211;64 Italian Youth Championship. In 1965&#8211;66, Reja joined Capello in Serie A with the first team and also the Italian Under 23 side. Reja played for two more teams, U.S. Citt&#224; di Palermo and Alessandria in a long career that lasted until 1975, playing a total of 124 Serie A matches.<BR><BR><STRONG><EM>Coach<BR><\/EM>Early career<BR><\/STRONG>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; however, he 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 being defeated on the promotion playoffs to Perugia after penalty shootouts.<\/P><P><STRONG>Lazio<BR><\/STRONG>After a short spell as head coach of Croatian side Hajduk Split from August 2009 to February 2010, Reja opted to quit his job in Split in order to become new head coach of Lazio. He was unveiled as new Lazio boss the following day, replacing Davide Ballardini at the helm of the Rome club. He turned the fortunes of a club in dismay, guiding it out of the relegation zone and into a mid-table finish in the season.<BR><BR>The 2010&#8211;11 season for Lazio started in an astonishing way, with the team surprisingly heading Serie A with a four-point advantage to runners-up Inter after nine games, thanks to Reja&#39;s abilities in relaunching players such as Mauro Z&#225;rate, Cristian Ledesma and Stefano Mauri, as well as introducing new key signings &nbsp;uch as Brazilian international Hernanes.<\/P>","26A41B77C025E2F442D11C4E5D31FCE8":"4","DAF09C52CF6076BDF21F9C2EFDD9E43065C5B3AC13FF9DA2":"1","FD1933E1882D5E7A216F21827D2B22B4":"","70356B8F0C59F6B5":"583","92D102DDE1327A88":"Edoardo Reja","DF03820F537F8E7C95F8F8605BCB052C":"Italy","DAF09C52CF6076BD5E585110E27D1A5D":"0","6438FCEB8DF4FD6202A461D3835934E5":"Atalanta,Lazio,Hajduk Split,Napoli,Cagliari,Catania,Genoa,Vicenza,Torino,Brescia,Lecce,Bologna,Hellas Verona,Cosenza Calcio 1914","F9622CC2808B37CB":"","B628C0FB460378A51A233D645651DF2F":"","289C5F85E5EE1B609E88960AAED5C65D":"1945-10-10","31E4B7E841B17C66":"Edoardo Reja","95081CC600C137A3ECD07E1A2BAC6047":"999","3DD52A7123843A0599BD59EBE6AB4E97":"Atalanta","E40B4988E6F21D3C":"99558","e_index":7};