Gheorghe Hagi

Gheorghe Hagi
Gheorghe Hagi (2014)
Personnel
birthday	February 5, 1965
place of birth	Săcele ,  Romania
size	174 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1978-1980	FC Farul Constanța
1980-1981	Luceafărul Bucharest
1981-1982	FC Constanța
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1982-1983	FC Constanța	18 0(7)
1983-1987	Sportul Studențesc	107 (58)
1987-1990	Steaua Bucharest	97 (76)
1990-1992	real Madrid	63 (15)
1992-1994	Brescia Calcio	61 (15)
1994-1996	FC Barcelona	35 0(7)
1996-2001	Galatasaray Istanbul	132 (59)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983-2000	Romania	125 (35)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2001	Romania
2003	Bursaspor
2004-2005	Galatasaray Istanbul
2005-2006	FCU Politehnica Timișoara
2007	Steaua Bucharest
2010-2011	Galatasaray Istanbul
2014–	FC Viitorul Constanța
1 Only league games are given.

Gheorghe "Gică" Hagi ( pronunciation ^{? / I} , born February 5, 1965 in Săcele , Constanța County ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach and sports official .

Hagi is considered the greatest player in Romanian football history and was put on the FIFA 100 list by Pelé . In addition, the stadium of FC Farul Constanța was named after him on April 26, 2000.

Life

Club career

Hagi began his football career in 1978 with FC Constanța under the guidance of Iosif Bükössy . After a year intermezzo at the football school of Luceafărul Bucharest , he returned to the Black Sea coast, where he at the age of 17 years on September 11, the 1982 game against SC Bacau in the Divizia A debut. Although he scored seven goals in his first season, his club was relegated at the end of the 1982/83 season and Hagi moved to Sportul Studențesc in the Romanian capital under pressure from the Ceaușescu regime, not to Universitatea Craiova . There he played a key role in ensuring that his club qualified for the UEFA Cup every year in the following years . During the winter break of the 1986/87 season , Hagi was transferred to Steaua Bucharest . There he celebrated his debut with the only goal in the final of the European Supercup against Dynamo Kiev . With Steaua he won the national championship three times and the cup twice. In 1989 he reached the final of the European Cup with Steaua . After the soccer World Cup in Italy in 1990 , Hagi received clearance from his club to go abroad. The eccentric ball magician was never really able to assert himself in the big clubs in Europe. He played for Real Madrid in the Primera División from 1990 and moved from there to Brescia Calcio in Serie A in 1992 . At the end of the season, Brescia's relegation to Serie B was clear and Hagi remained loyal to the club. After the successful soccer World Cup in 1994 , FC Barcelona noticed him again and he moved to Spain a second time . However, he did not win the title here either, so that in 1996 he decided to move to Galatasaray Istanbul . There he was four times Turkish champion, twice Turkish cup winner and won the 2000 UEFA Cup and his second European Supercup. Hagi was already a legend as an active member of Galatasaray. So he could more or less determine how long he wanted to play. The coaches and teammates tolerated the eccentric idiosyncrasies of their playmaker, as his performance on the pitch was mostly right. On April 24, 2001, Hagi said goodbye to active football with a gala specially prepared for him. Hagi wore the legendary number 10 on all clubs except FC Barcelona (11).

National team career

Gheorghe Hagi at a benefit game (2010)

The Carpathian - Maradona delighted football fans all over the world in 125 international matches, because it was especially in the Romanian national jersey that he had the greatest moments of his footballing career. One will remember his appearances at the soccer World Cup in 1994 in the USA , when he surprisingly led his team to the quarter-finals and eliminated the vice-world champion Argentina .

Hagi made his debut at the age of 18, on August 10, 1983 in the friendly between Norway and Romania, for the national team. He had previously played in the U-16, U-17, U-18 and the Romanian Olympic team. He played his first major tournament in 1984 at the age of 19 at the European Championships in France . There he lost in the group games a. a. against Germany . After participating in three World Cups in 1990, 1994 and 1998, as well as participating in another European Championship in 1996, his last major appearance was at the 2000 European Football Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands . In the quarter-finals against the eventual finalists Italy , he received the yellow-red card. So his career ended somewhat inglorious for Romania.

On the occasion of his 109th international match on April 22, 1998 Hagi was honored as the new Romanian national record player. In 1999, however, FIFA decided not to recognize games that had been played as part of the Olympic Games since 1960 as official international games. Thus Hagi had already replaced his predecessor László Bölöni with his 105th international match on April 30, 1997 as the Romanian national record player. He stayed that way until 2005 when he was overtaken by Dorinel Munteanu .

Functionary career

In July 2001 Hagi started his coaching career as the national coach of Romania. After only four games, however, he resigned due to the missed qualification for the World Cup in 2002 . In June 2003 he took over the Turkish first division team Bursaspor as coach, but here too he was only able to hold out for six months due to lack of success. His breakthrough came in February 2004 when he took over the coaching position of his former team Galatasaray Istanbul. In this position he achieved his first major title as a club coach on May 11, 2005 with a historic 5-1 victory in the final of the Turkish Cup against arch rivals Fenerbahçe Istanbul . Nonetheless, he resigned after failing to qualify for the Champions League in the championship and Fenerbahçe winning the league title. Problems with the club management and the fans were also a reason for his resignation. His successor was the Belgian Eric Gerets .

Luís Figo and Gheorghe Hagi (2008)

In November 2005 Hagi returned to Romania as a coach of FCU Politehnica Timișoara . He failed to lead the club into the UEFA Cup . The club parted ways with him two game days before the end of the season . On June 23, 2007 he became the coach of the Romanian record champions Steaua Bucharest. There he succeeded Cosmin Olăroiu . After only six league and five European Cup games, he resigned on September 20, 2007 - the day after the opening defeat in the Champions League at Slavia Prague - due to persistent differences with the management.

In 2008 he founded the Academia de Fotbal Gheorghe Hagi , a football school in Ovidiu . In the summer of 2009, he bought the local club CS Ovidiu from its right of cession for League III and instead let a newly founded club called FC Viitorul Constanța compete. In 2010 he achieved immediate promotion to League II . In 2011 the youth teams of the Academia de Fotbal Gheorghe Hagi were Romanian D youth champions and A youth runners-up.

As the successor to Frank Rijkaard , Hagi coached Galatasaray Istanbul for the second time in his career on October 21, 2010 , before being fired on March 25, 2011.

Gheorghe Hagi with his son Ianis Hagi , professional at FC Viitorul Constanța (2015)

After his commitment in 2013, Hagi took over the coaching position of FC Viitorul Constanța in autumn 2014 , which he co-founded as part of his football school in its current form, and of which he has been the owner and president since it was founded. In 2016/17 he became Romanian champion with Constanța .

Others

Hagi has a son and a daughter. His son Ianis Hagi is also a professional footballer. On September 29, 2008, Hagi was appointed UNICEF ambassador . He is an honorary citizen of Constanța.

Hagi belongs to the Aromanian people .

titles and achievements

As a player

• World Cup participants: 1990, 1994, 1998
• European Championship participants: 1984, 1996, 2000
• Romanian champions: 1987, 1988, 1990
• Romanian Cup Winner: 1987, 1989
• European Champion Clubs' Cup : Final 1989
• Spanish Super Cup : 1990, 1994
• Turkish champion : 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
• Turkish Cup Winner : 1999, 2000
• UEFA Cup winner: 2000
• UEFA Super Cup winner: 1986, 2000
• Romania's footballer of the century
• Romanian top scorer: 1985, 1986
• Top scorer of the European Cup: 1988
• Romanian Footballer of the Year : 1985, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000
• 2004 Admission to the FIFA 100

As a trainer

• Turkish Cup Winner : 2005
• Romanian champion : 2017
• Romanian Cup Winner : 2019

Season statistics

society	league	season	league		Nat. Cup		European Cup		Other		total
			Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates
Farul Constanța	Divizia A	1982/83	18th	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	18th	7th
total			18th	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	18th	7th
Sportul Studențesc	Divizia A	1983/84	30th	2	-	-	2	0	-	-	32	2
		1984/85	30th	20th	-	-	2	0	-	-	32	20th
		1985/86	31	31	-	-	2	3	-	-	33	34
		1986/87	16	5	-	-	4th	1	-	-	20th	6th
total			107	58	-	-	10	4th	-	-	117	62
Steaua Bucharest	Divizia A	1986/87	14th	10	-	-	1	1	-	-	15th	11
		1987/88	31	25th	-	-	8th	4th	-	-	39	29
		1988/89	30th	31	-	-	9	6th	-	-	39	37
		1989/90	22nd	10	-	-	3	1	-	-	25th	11
total			97	76	-	-	21st	12	-	-	118	88
real Madrid	Primera División	1990/91	28	3	-	-	4th	0	1	0	33	3
		1991/92	35	12	5	1	10	3	-	-	50	16
total			63	15th	5	1	14th	3	1	0	83	19th
Brescia Calcio	Series A	1992/93	31	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	31	5
	Series B	1993/94	30th	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	30th	9
total			61	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-	61	14th
FC Barcelona	Primera División	1994/95	17th	4th	2	1	2	0	2	0	23	5
		1995/96	19th	3	4th	0	5	3	-	-	28	6th
total			36	7th	6th	1	7th	3	2	0	51	11
Galatasaray Istanbul	Super Lig	1996/97	30th	14th	1	2	3	1	2	0	36	17th
		1997/98	30th	8th	6th	0	6th	0	-	-	42	8th
		1998/99	28	14th	4th	1	8th	3	-	-	40	18th
		1999/00	19th	12	3	1	15th	4th	-	-	37	17th
		2000/01	25th	11	1	0	11	2	-	-	37	13
total			132	59	15th	4th	43	10	2	0	192	73
Career total			514	236	26th	6th	95	32	5	0	640	274

literature

• Mihai Ionescu / Răzvan Toma / Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 250 .

Web links

Commons : Gheorghe Hagi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Gheorghe Hagi (Romanian / English)
• Gheorghe Hagi in the database of weltfussball.de
• Gheorghe Hagi in the Turkish Football Federation database as a player
• Gheorghe Hagi in the Turkish Football Federation database as coach (English)
• Gheorghe Hagi on romaniansoccer.ro (English)
• Gheorghe Hagi on labtof.ro (Romanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Corneliu Stroe on Hagi's move to Sportul Studenţesc
2. ↑ FOTBAL PENTRU VIAȚĂ! MERGI LA MECI SAU TRIMITE SMS LA 877! ACUM
3. ↑ Report on romaniansoccer.ro
4. ↑ Academia de Fotbal Gheorghe Hagi (Romanian, English)
5. ↑ ProSport of July 11, 2011 , accessed on July 21, 2011 (Romanian)
6. ↑ Hagi returned to Galatasaray on October 21 on UEFA.com
7. ↑ AÇIKLAMA of March 25, 2011 on galatasaray.org
8. ↑ Ianis Hagi - player profile 18/19. Retrieved March 30, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Simona Halep, cetăţean de onoare al orasului Constanta