Romulus Gabor (born 14 October 1961) is a Romanian former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Romulus Gabor was born on 14 October 1961 in

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. He started playing football at age 13 at

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, where he stayed for a short while before moving at

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where on 28 October 1978 he made his

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debut under coach Ilie Savu in a 2–0 loss against Argeș Pitești. At the end of his first season spent at Corvinul, the club relegated to

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, but Gabor stayed with the club, being used more often after coach Mircea Lucescu came to the club, promoting back to the first division after one year, helping the club finish 3rd in the

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, also appearing in four games in which he scored one goal in the

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. After 13 seasons spent with

in which he scored 68 goals in 305 league games, in 1991 he was transferred at

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club,

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. After one season spent in

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, Gabor returned to play for Corvinul in

, afterwards going for a half of season to play for

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where he made his last

appearance on 10 November 1993 in a 3–2 victory against Gloria Bistrița. Afterwards he played for

Unirea Alba Iulia Clubul Sportiv Municipal Unirea Alba Iulia, commonly known as Unirea Alba Iulia (), is a Romanian professional football club based in Alba Iulia, Alba County, founded in 1924 and currently playing in the Liga III. Among the greatest achievemen ...

and

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, ending his carer in 1997 at

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club, Viitorul Oradea. Romulus Gabor has a total of 304

appearances with 64 goals scored and 13

matches played with one goal scored.

International career

Romulus Gabor played 35 games and scored 2 goals for

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, all under the guidance of coach Mircea Lucescu, being nicknamed "Lucescu's child", making his debut on 11 November 1981 in a 0–0 against

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at the 1982 World Cup qualifiers. He played 6 games at the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers. He was used by coach Mircea Lucescu in two games at the Euro 1984 final tournament, in the first one which was a 1–1 against

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he played as a starter until the 76th minute when he was replaced by Gheorghe Hagi and in the second one he came as a substitute and replaced Mircea Irimescu in the 59th minute of a 1–0 loss against

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did not pass the group stage. He scored his first goal for the national team from a free kick in a friendly against

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. Romulus Gabor played two games at the 1986 World Cup qualifiers, scored his second goal in a friendly against

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and made his last appearance on 23 April 1986 in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 victory against

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. Gabor was also part of Romania's U20 squad at the 1981 World Youth Championship from

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, appearing in 6 games in which he scored two goals, helping the team finish the tournament in the 3rd position, winning the bronze medal, also winning the Golden Ball award for the best player of the tournament and the Bronze shoe for the third goalscorer of the competition. For representing his country at Euro 1984, Gabor was decorated by President of Romania

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on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gabor goal''.

Honours

Corvinul Hunedoara *

: 1979–80

References

External links

*
Romania National Team 1980–1989 - Details
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