Róbert Ilyés (born 4 February 1974) is a Romanian

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and former

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who played as a

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. He is currently in charge of

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club Csíkszereda.

Club career

Foresta Fălticeni

He started his professional career by joining Divzia B side

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in 1995. In his second season at the club he played a crucial role in winning the

1996–97 Divizia B The 1996–97 Divizia B was the 57th season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The format has been maintained to two series, each of them having 18 teams. At the end of the season, the winners of the series promoted to Lig ...

title that also meant promotion to Divizia A. The club barely avoided relegation at the end of the

1997–98 Divizia A The 1997–98 Divizia A was the eightieth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Teams League table Positions by round Results Top goalscorers Champion squad See also * 1997–98 Divizia B * 1997–98 Div ...

season and as the team stood last before the winter break of the

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season he left midseason to the better rated Divzia A side

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Astra Ploiești

With his continued good performances as a

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throughout the 3 seasons that he played for Astra, he drew the attention of bigger

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clubs.

Rapid București

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manager

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signed him during the winter transfer window of the

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. He enjoyed major success at the club, winning the 2001–02 Cupa României, 2002 Supercupa României,

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and

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. Although he was vital to the team's success, he felt that his financial compensation was unfairly low compared to other teammates. He did not renew his contract in the winter of 2005.

Khazar Lankaran

During his one and a half-year spell at the club, he went on to win both the

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and 2006–07 Azerbaijan Cup with Khazar.

FC Brașov

He returned to Romania to

side FC Brașov in July 2007. Being the team

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, he helped the side promote to

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by winning the

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. He spent the following 3 seasons playing for the club in

Târgu Mureș

After one last

season at

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, he decided to retire as a player.

Later lower league games

After a brief assistant manager spell at FC Brașov, he returned to play football in the lower Romanian leagues as the player-manager of FK Csíkszereda. While being the assistant manager of Sepsi OSK, he made a few

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appearances for the club's reserve team. He scored his last

goal on 9 October 2020 at the age of 46.

Managerial career

In 2013 he had a brief spell as the assistant manager of

side FC Brașov. Later in 2013 he became player-manager at his hometown club FK Csíkszereda. He led the team to promotion from

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at the end of his first season but he struggled to obtain promotion to

in the following 3 seasons. In 2017 he switched to coaching the youth team of the club and in 2018 he obtained the

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. He left FK Csíkszereda for an assistant manager role at

side Sepsi OSK in 2019.

International career

He was player-manager of the

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squad that finished 3rd at the 2017 ConIFA European Football Cup and 4th at the 2018 ConIFA World Football CupWorld Football Cup 2018 Squad Lists
ConIFA. Retrieved 11 December 2020. respectively.

Statistics

Honours

Player

;Foresta Fălticeni *

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: 1996–97 ;Rapid București *

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: 2002–03 *

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: 2001–02, 2005–06 *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României () is a Romanian football (soccer), football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994 Supe ...

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; Khazar Lankaran * Azerbaijan Top League: 2006–07 *

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: 2006–07 FC Brașov *

: 2007–08 Csíkszereda * Liga IV – Harghita County: 2013–14 Székely Land * CONIFA European Football Cup third place:

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* CONIFA World Football Cup fourth place:

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Coach

Csíkszereda * Liga IV – Harghita County: 2013–14 Székely Land * CONIFA European Football Cup third place:

* CONIFA World Football Cup fourth place:

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ilyes, Robert 1974 births Living people Székely people Sportspeople from Miercurea Ciuc Footballers from Harghita County Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent Romanian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football player-managers Liga I players FC Astra Giurgiu players FC Rapid București players FC Brașov (1936) players ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș players FK Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc players Khazar Lankaran FK players Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan Romanian football managers Liga I managers Liga II managers FK Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc managers Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe managers