Cosmin Olăroiu
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Aurelian Cosmin Olăroiu | |
| birthday | June 10, 1969 | |
| place of birth | Bucharest , Romania | |
| size | 187 cm | |
| position | Central defender | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1989-1990 | Gloria Buzau | |
| 1990-1991 | Carpați Nehoiu | |
| 1991-1992 | MECON Bucharest | |
| 1992 | Girueta Bucharest | |
| 1992-1995 | FC Progresul Bucharest | 80 (8) |
| 1995-1997 | FC Universitatea Craiova | 39 (2) |
| 1997-2000 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 98 (7) |
| 2000 | → JEF United (loan) | 10 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2001-2002 | FC National Bucharest | |
| 2002 | Steaua Bucharest | |
| 2003-2004 | FC National Bucharest | |
| 2004-2005 | FCU Politehnica Timișoara | |
| 2006-2007 | Steaua Bucharest | |
| 2007-2009 | Al-Hilal | |
| 2009-2010 | Al-Sadd | |
| 2011 | Steaua Bucharest | |
| 2011-2013 | Al Ain Club | |
| 2013-2017 | al-Ahli | |
| 2014-2015 | Saudi Arabia | |
| 2018– | Jiangsu Suning | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Aurelian Cosmin Olăroiu (born June 10, 1969 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach . He played 119 games in Divizia A , the highest Romanian division. In 2006 he led Steaua Bucharest as a coach to the Romanian championship. From May to June 2011 he coached the club again.
Career as a player
The career of Olăroiu began in 1989 at Gloria Buzau in Divizia B . After three more stations, he came to Progresul Bucharest in 1992 , which had just been promoted to Divizia A , the highest Romanian division. Olăroiu made his first division debut on September 2, 1992 in the away game at Rapid Bucharest and was able to assert himself as a regular player in his first year. With his team he managed to stay up in 1993 and placed himself in the midfield of the league in the following two seasons, without being able to intervene in the fight for the European Cup places .
In 1995, the top club Universitatea Craiova Olăroiu signed. The club finished the 1995/96 season in fourth and moved into the UI Cup . There he was eliminated in the group stage against Karlsruher SC . In the following season , the club fell back into midfield. During the winter break, Olăroiu Craiova left and moved to Suwon Samsung Bluewings in the South Korean K-League . There he won the South Korean championship in 1998 and 1999 and reached the final of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup in 1998 , where he and his team lost 1-0 to Al-Nasr .
At the end of December 2000, Olăroiu, who still had a player's contract valid until the summer of 2001, decided not to return to South Korea from his home leave. Since he was not allowed to play for any other club, he then ended his career.
Career as a coach
After the end of his active career, Olăroiu worked as a football coach. In January 2001, he succeeded Marius Lăcătuș as head coach of his former club FC Național Bucharest . He took over the club on a relegation place and led it to a place in midfield at the end of the 2000/01 season . In the following season he continued his successful work and fought with his team for the championship. One game day before the end of the season, the team was at the top of Divizia A, but lost in the last game of the season Universitatea Craiova and had to let Dinamo Bucharest go ahead.
After the end of the season Olăroiu left FC Național and moved to record champions Steaua Bucharest , where he succeeded Victor Pițurcă . However, Steaua started with only nine points from seven games in the 2002/03 season , which caused the club to separate again from Olăroiu and bring back Pițurcă. A short time later he returned to Național where he became a manager . In September 2003 he returned to the coaching bench as the successor to Walter Zenga when the club found itself in the penultimate place in Divizia A after the fourth match day. At the end of the season a placement in midfield jumped out.
In the winter break of 2004/05 Olăroiu stood with his team in the top flight of Divizia A, when he was in relegation risk league competitor FCU Politehnica Timişoara signed. He was able to finish the season again with a place in midfield. In November 2005 he was in fourth place with his team when he was fired and replaced by Gheorghe Hagi . At the beginning of 2006, Olăroiu took over for the second time the post of head coach of Steaua Bucharest, which had previously split up with Oleh Protasov . He ended the season by winning the championship and thus his first title. At the end of the year he was voted “Romania's Coach of the Year 2006”. In the 2006/07 season he could not defend the title as runner-up behind arch rivals Dinamo Bucharest and he was again replaced by Hagi.
In the summer of 2007, Olăroiu left Romania and took over the Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal . There he won the Saudi Arabian championship in 2008 and missed defending his title a year later as runner-up. In April 2009 he was replaced by Georges Leekens . Olăroiu then took over the Qatari club Al-Sadd . At the end of 2010, his contract was terminated there.
On May 5, 2011 Sorin Cârțu resigned as coach of Steaua Bucharest and Olăroiu replaced him for the last three games of the 2010/11 season . On May 25, 2011, he also won the 2010/11 Cupa României final with Steaua before signing a two-year contract with Al Ain Club in the United Arab Emirates in early June 2011 . After the contract expired, he took over league competitor al-Ahli in the summer of 2013 . There he won the championship in the 2013/14 season .
successes
As a player
- South Korean champion: 1998 , 1999
- South Korean League Cup Winner: 1999, 2000
- South Korean Supercup Winner: 1999, 2000
- 1998 Asian Cup Winners' Cup finalist
As a trainer
- Romanian champion: 2006
- Romanian Super Cup winner: 2006
- UEFA Cup semi -finals : 2006
- Romania's Coach of the Year: 2006
- Saudi Arabian Champion: 2008
- Qatar Stars Cup Winner: 2010
- Qatari runner-up: 2010
- Romanian Cup Winner: 2011
- Masters of the United Arab Emirates: 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2016
- UAE Super Cup winners: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
- UAE League Cup Winner: 2014, 2017
- AFC Champions League finalist : 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ziarul de Iași, January 9, 2001 , accessed January 17, 2012 (Romanian)
- ↑ ProSport of May 5, 2011 , accessed on May 26, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ ProSport of June 6, 2011 , accessed on July 29, 2011 (Romanian)
Web links
- Cosmin Olăroiu in the database of weltfussball.de
- Cosmin Olăroiu in the Romanian Soccer database (Romanian)
- Cosmin Olăroiu on labtof.ro (Romanian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olăroiu, Cosmin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Olăroiu, Aurelian Cosmin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |