Octavian Grigore

Octavian Grigore
Personnel
birthday	July 15, 1964
place of birth	Urlați ,  Romania
size	186 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
1974-1981	Petrolul Ploiesti
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1981-2000	Petrolul Ploiesti	467 (60)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1998-1999	Petrolul Ploieşti (Assistant Trainer)
2000-2002	Petrolistul Boldeşti
2002-2003	Petrolul Ploiesti
2003-2004	Unirea Urziceni
2004-2005	Internațional Pitesti
2005-2006	Dunărea Galați
2006	FCM Târgovişte
2007	Chimia Brazi
2007-2008	Petrolul Ploiesti
2008	CFR Timișoara
2008-2009	FC Știința Bacau
2010	Chimia Brazi
2010	Unirea Urziceni
2011–2012	Chimia Brazi
2012	Fortuna Brazi
2013	Dunărea Galați
2016-2017	Petrolul Ploiesti
2018–	Petrolul Ploieşti (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Octavian "Tavi" Grigore (born July 15, 1964 in Urlați ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach . The central defender denied 441 games in the Romanian Divizia A .

Career as a player

Grigore played for Petrolul Ploieşti throughout his career as an active footballer . Emerging from the youth of the club, he joined the club's first team in 1981, which was playing in Divizia B at the time . After the climb at the end of the season he came on August 7, the 1982 home win against Corvinul Hunedoara his first appearance in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A . He stayed with Petrolul as a player for 19 years and remained loyal to the club after two relegations in 1984 and 1988 . The greatest successes of his career are qualifying for the 1990/91 UEFA Cup and winning the Cup in 1995 , when he was also the team captain. Although he played a few games for the junior and youth national teams of different age groups, he was not considered for the Romanian national football team once .

Career as a coach

Already towards the end of his active career, Grigore was working as an assistant coach for his club Petrolul Ploieşti . After hanging up the football boots on the nail in 2000, he took over Petrolistul Boldeşti in Divizia C . There he narrowly missed promotion to Divizia B twice . In 2002 he got the opportunity to take over his old club Petrolul as head coach after he was relegated to Divizia B. With Grigore the promotion to Divizia A succeeded , but Petrolul then merged with Astra Ploieşti , so that there was no possibility of further care. In the course of the first half of 2003/04 Grigore moved to Divizia B to Unirea Urziceni , where he was dismissed in February 2004 after a friendly game. After further stations at Internațional Piteşti and Dunărea Galați , Grigore was obliged on June 30, 2006 as coach of the second division FCM Târgovişte , but had to give up his position in late October 2006 after the 12th matchday of Liga II 2006/07 . He then agreed with Farul Constanța on a coaching job as the successor to Marin Ion , who also temporarily held the office of sports director. But when Grigore to sign the contract for on 31 October 2006 Constanta came, he was told that under the Basarab Panduru had been chosen as the new coach. Later in the 2006/07 season, Grigore still trained Chimia Brazi and returned to Petrolul at the end of April 2007 as the successor to Marin Barbu , but could not secure promotion with the club playing in League II .

In July 2008 he signed a contract with the second division CFR Timişoara , in which the businessman Iulian Capeti had entered as a new patron after his plans to build a second division club in Făgăraş could not be implemented. When Grigore returned with his players from the training camp from Austria, his contract was dissolved again in early August 2008, as Capeti had since left the club and the new patron Georgica Cornu preferred the previous assistant coach Florin Bugar as the new head coach.

After a year with the meanwhile dissolved second division club FC Știinăa Bacau , he coached Chimia Brazi in League III until September 8, 2010 . Since there was no written contract with the club, Grigore Chimia Brazi was able to leave without legal problems on September 8, 2010 to take on a club in League 1 for the first time with Unirea Urziceni . After completing the first half of the season, Unirea was in penultimate place and club patron Dumitru Bucşaru sought a merger with Costel Orac- trained CS Concordia Chiajna for financial reasons . When this merger was finally banned by the Romanian Football Association in February 2011, Octavian Grigore was no longer with the club. On August 29, 2011, he returned as head coach to third division club Chimia Brazi, where he replaced Răzvan Vlad, who became his new assistant. In the summer of 2012 he moved to local rivals Fortuna Brazi , where he stayed until the end of 2012. From April to June 2013 he was in charge of Dunărea Galați in Liga II .

successes

As a player

• Romanian Cup Winner: 1995
• Promotion to Divizia A: 1982, 1985, 1989

As a trainer

• Promotion to Divizia A: 2003

literature

• Mihai Ionescu, Răzvan Toma, Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 249 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evenimentul of March 23, 2004  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 30, 2012 (Romanian)  
2. ↑ Ziarul Dâmbovița of July 3, 2006 , accessed on November 20, 2011 (Romanian)
3. ↑ Ziarul Dâmbovița of December 4, 2006 , accessed on November 20, 2011 (Romanian)
4. ↑ Telegraf of November 2, 2006 , accessed on November 27, 2011 (Romanian)
5. ↑ ProSport of July 21, 2008 , accessed on November 27, 2011 (Romanian)
6. ↑ ProSport of August 4, 2008 , accessed November 27, 2011 (Romanian)
7. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor of September 8, 2010 , accessed November 27, 2011 (Romanian)
8. ↑ ProSport of August 29, 2011 , accessed on January 16, 2012 (Romanian)

Web links

• Octavian Grigore in the database of weltfussball.de
• Octavian Grigore on romaniansoccer.ro (English)