Gabriel Gheorghe Caramarin (born 7 September 1977) is a Romanian
football coach and former player who is current assistant manager of
Jiangsu Suning
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.
Career
Caramarin was born in
Măcin
Măcin () is a town in Tulcea County, in the Northern Dobruja region of Romania.
Location
Măcin is located in the north-western part of the Northern Dobruja region, in Tulcea County. The city is located at the intersection of the DN22 ( E87) ...
. He began his career at
Sportul Studenţesc and made his debut in the
Divizia A in 1994. After a short interlude at
Gloria Bistrita, he rejoined Sportul in 1997, playing 16 matches for the
Bucharest
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-based team. As Sportul relegated, he moved to
FC Naţional, where he spent the next seven years of his career, making over 150 first league appearances. He joined
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Food
* ''Puran Poli'', a poli made up of wheat flour and puran (sweet cooked gram paste)
* A Marathi name for ''chapati'', a bread made up of wheat flour
Organisations
* FC Timişoara Romanian first league football c ...
in the winter break of the 2004–05 season, together with Național coach
Cosmin Olăroiu
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As a manager, he guided Steaua Bucharest to the Romanian League title and Romanian Supercup ...
and teammates
Gabriel Cânu,
Gigel Coman and
Marius Popa.
Caramarin made his debut for the
Romania national team
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in a friendly against
Germany
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, and scored on his debut in a 5–1 win. He went on to make another three appearances for Romania.
After retiring in 2009, he became the
assistant coach
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History
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of
Unirea Urziceni
Asociația Sportivă Fotbal Club Urziceni, commonly known as FC Urziceni (), is a Romanian professional football club based in Urziceni, Ialomița County which currently plays in fourth division, Ialomița County. Unirea became national champion ...
and later
Steaua București.
He won the
Cupa României with
Steaua București in
2011 as caretaker head coach.
Honours
Manager
Steaua București
*
Cupa României:
2010–11
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1977 births
Living people
People from Măcin
Romanian footballers
Association football midfielders
Romania international footballers
FC Politehnica Timișoara players
ACF Gloria Bistrița players
FC Sportul Studențesc București players
FC Progresul București players
CS Otopeni players
FC Steaua București assistant managers
Romanian football managers
Romanian expatriate football managers
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Expatriate football managers in Cyprus
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