Daniel Ionuț Isăilă (born 29 June 1972) is a Romanian professional football

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and former player. He is the current manager of

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club

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. A former defender, Isăilă played 149 matches in

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, scoring seven goals. He played eight times in the

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, four games each with Rapid București and FC Brașov.

Coaching career

He began his coaching career in 2006 at second league club FC Săcele. He then joined the technical staff of

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, becoming his assistant at FC Brașov. From July 2010 he was in numerous occasions the head coach of FC Brașov, overseen by technical director Daniel Oprea, Isăilă not having the PRO License coach certificate yet. In November 2011, Isăilă signed a contract for four seasons with Sportul Studențesc. The club relegated under his command. In August 2012, he moved to second division club

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, where he received a contract for a season with the main objective being promotion in

. He resigned in the middle of the season, because the team was far from reaching the target, being only 5th after 16 games. In April 2013, he was appointed head coach of

side

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. With Astra Giurgiu he had fantastic performances and in two years he won almost everything possible. In his first season in charge, he won the Cupa României at the National Arena Stadium against Steaua Bucharest in front of 53,000 Steaua supporters. On 11 July he won the second historical cup for Astra, the Supercup, again against Steaua Bucharest. After the best performance of Astra Giurgiu in the

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, (2nd place) he qualified his team in the

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group stages for the first time, winning against

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in a fantastic double match which will remain in the history of the club. In October 2014, he stepped down as manager of Astra. In October the same year, he became one of the assistant coaches for the

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working under

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and later

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. In December 2016, Isăilă was named as the head coach of Romania under-21 national team. After nearly two years in control he gave up the national team, thus leaving it with chances of qualifying to the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. In June 2018, he signed with newly promoted

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side Al-Hazem. He was sacked on 31 January 2020 following a 0–0 draw with Al-Taawoun.

Coaching stats

Honours

Player

FC Brașov *

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: 1998–99

Coach

Astra Giurgiu * Cupa României: 2013–14 * Supercupa României:

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Isaila, Daniel 1972 births Living people Footballers from Brașov Romanian men's footballers Romanian football managers Men's association football defenders FC Brașov (1936) players FC Rapid București players Liga I players Liga II players Liga I managers Liga II managers FC Brașov (1936) managers FC Astra Giurgiu managers FC Sportul Studențesc București managers ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș managers Al-Hazem F.C. managers Baniyas SC managers Expatriate football managers in Saudi Arabia Expatriate football managers in the United Arab Emirates Saudi Pro League managers UAE Pro League managers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates