Gavril Balint

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Gavril Balint
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Gabi Balint (1985)
Personnel
Surname Gavril Pelé Balint
birthday January 3, 1963
place of birth Sângeorz-Băi ,  Romania
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1974-1988 Raise Sângeorz-Băi
1978 Luceafărul Bucharest
1978-1980 Gloria Bistrița
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1990 Steaua Bucharest 264 (69)
1990-1993 Real Burgos 083 (27)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1982-1992 Romania 34 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1994-1998 Romania (assistant coach)
1998 Bihor Oradea FC
1999-2000 Sportul Studențesc Bucharest
2000 Romania (assistant coach)
2000-2001 Galatasaray Istanbul (Assistant Coach)
2001 Romania (assistant coach)
2002-2003 Sheriff Tiraspol
2003-2004 Sportul Studențesc Bucharest
2004-2005 Galatasaray Istanbul (Assistant Coach)
2005-2006 FCU Politehnica Timișoara (assistant coach)
2008-2009 FC Timișoara
2010-2011 Republic of Moldova
2013 FC Vaslui
2014 CSU Craiova
1 Only league games are given.

Gavril Pelé "Gabi" Balint (born January 3, 1963 in Sângeorz-Băi ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach . He completed a total of 347 games in Divizia A and the Spanish Primera División . He also took part in the 1990 World Cup. Most recently, he was under contract with the Romanian first division club CSU Craiova in 2014 .

Player career

Gavril Balint started playing football in his hometown at the age of 11. His parents had given him the middle name Pelé in anticipation of his career . In 1980 Balint left his homeland and moved to Steaua Bucharest . There he played his first game in the highest Romanian football league, Divizia A , on June 7, 1981 . In the following season, Balint became a regular player and contributed to the fact that Steaua became the most successful Romanian team of the 1980s and one of the best in Europe. The high point of his career was the 1985/86 season when Balint won the European Cup with Steaua . In addition to reaching the European Cup final in the 1988/89 season , Balint won five championship titles with Steaua and won the Romanian Cup four times. In the 1989/90 season, Balint finally became the most successful goalscorer for Divizia A.

In 1990, Balint moved after the World Cup - like most other Romanian national players - abroad and joined the Spanish club Real Burgos , which had just been promoted to the Primera División , for a transfer fee of 800,000  US dollars . Balint was also a regular in Burgos. After three years in Burgos, which got into financial difficulties and was relegated to the Segunda División , he ended his career at the age of 30.

National team

Balint played a total of 34 games for the Romanian national soccer team . He made his debut on April 14, 1982 against Bulgaria . While he hardly played for many years, Balint became a regular in the run-up to the 1990 World Cup in Italy. National coach Emerich Jenei used him in all four games and Balint scored two goals.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career Balint was brought in 1994 by Anghel Iordănescu as his assistant to the Romanian national team. He stayed that way until 1998 when he got the opportunity to take over as head coach of the FC Bihor Oradea team in Divizia B. However, he had to give up this post after seven match days. After the season he moved to the league competitor Sportul Studențesc Bucharest , with whom he won third place in the Seria I of Divizia B. In May 2000, national coach Emerich Jenei brought him back as an assistant to the national team.

After the European Football Championship in 2000 , Mircea Lucescu brought Balint to Galatasaray Istanbul as an assistant coach . However, he only stayed there for one season, as his former teammate Gheorghe Hagi appointed him as assistant coach to the national team in the summer of 2001. After the failed qualification for the soccer World Cup in 2002 Balint got the opportunity to become head coach again in 2002 and then moved to Sheriff Tiraspol . After winning the Moldovan championship, Balint received another offer from Sportul Studențesc, which he led back to Divizia A in the 2003/04 season . After this success, Gheorghe Hagi brought him to Galatasaray as an assistant coach and Hagi followed Balint in 2005 to FCU Politehnica Timișoara . From 2006 to 2008 he worked as a commentator for the Romanian television station Pro TV . On December 29, 2008 Balint was head coach at the first division club FC Timișoara , but he was there on June 1, 2009, before the end of the season, dismissed and replaced by Valentin Velcea . On January 19, 2010 he became the coach of the Moldovan national soccer team , which he supervised as part of the qualification for the 2012 European soccer championship . The team finished fifth in their group and then the Moldovan Association announced on December 19, 2011 that Balint's contract would not be renewed after it had expired.

After a break of more than a year, Balint received a contract on April 9, 2013 as the successor to Viorel Hizo as coach at the Romanian first division club FC Vaslui and finished fifth with this at the end of the 2012/13 season . After his assistant coach Iosif Rotariu was sacked because he was responsible for the failed transfer of his nephew Dorin Rotariu to FC Vaslui, Balint dissolved his contract in protest against this decision in July 2013. In March 2014 Balint was the new coach at second division CSU Craiova , with whom he was promoted to League 1 at the end of the season . Then they parted ways again.

titles and achievements

National team

society

Steaua Bucharest

Individual awards

As a trainer

Sheriff Tiraspol
Sportul Studențesc
CSU Craiova

As an assistant trainer

Galatasaray Istanbul

Others

Balint has been divorced since 2003 and has two daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.tricolori.ro (Romanian)
  2. ↑ Gândul of December 19, 2011 , accessed December 19, 2011 (Romanian)
  3. ↑ Din Moldova în Moldova. Balint a preluat Vasluiul , accessed January 6, 2014 (Romanian)
  4. ↑ Gabi Balint a demisionat de la FC Vaslui , accessed on January 6, 2014 (Romanian)

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personal data
SURNAME Balint, Gavril
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balint, Gavril Pelé; Balint, Gabi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Sângeorz-Băi