Gabriel Caramarin

{{short description|Romanian footballer}}

{{BLP sources|date=August 2017}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Gabriel Caramarin

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|9|7|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Măcin, Romania

| height = 1.69 m

| position = Midfielder

| currentclub = United Arab Emirates (assistant)

| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = CSȘ București

| youthyears2 = {{0|0000}}–1995| youthclubs2 = Sportul Studenţesc

| years1 = 1995–1998 |clubs1 = Sportul Studenţesc |caps1 = 17 |goals1 = 9

| years2 = 1996–1997 |clubs2 = → Gloria Bistriţa (loan) |caps2 = 1 |goals2 = 0

| years4 = 1998–2004 |clubs4 = Naţional București |caps4 = 170|goals4 = 37

| years5 = 2005–2007 |clubs5 = Politehnica Timişoara |caps5 = 53 |goals5 = 8

| years6 = 2008–2009 |clubs6 = Otopeni |caps6 = 31 |goals6 = 5

| totalcaps = 272 | totalgoals = 60

|nationalyears1 = 1996–1998

|nationalteam1 = Romania U21

|nationalcaps1 = 8

|nationalgoals1 = 1

| nationalyears2 = 2004

|nationalteam2 = Romania

|nationalcaps2 = 4

|nationalgoals2 = 1

| manageryears1 = 2010

| managerclubs1 = Unirea Urziceni (assistant)

| manageryears2 = 2010

| managerclubs2 = Unirea Urziceni (caretaker)

| manageryears3 = 2010–2011

| managerclubs3 = Steaua București (assistant)

| manageryears4 = 2011

| managerclubs4 = Steaua București (caretaker)

| manageryears5 = 2011–2013

| managerclubs5 = Anorthosis Famagusta (assistant)

| manageryears6 = 2015–2017

| managerclubs6 = Al-Ahli (assistant)

| manageryears7 = 2018–2021

| managerclubs7 = Jiangsu Suning (assistant)

| manageryears8 = 2021–2025

| managerclubs8 = Sharjah (assistant)

| manageryears9 = 2025–

| managerclubs9 = United Arab Emirates (assistant)

}}

Gabriel Gheorghe Caramarin (born 7 September 1977) is a Romanian football coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach at United Arab Emirates national team.

Career

Caramarin was born in Măcin. 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-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 Poli in the winter break of the 2004–05 season, together with Național coach Cosmin Olăroiu and teammates Gabriel Cânu, Gigel Coman and Marius Popa.

International career

Caramarin made his debut for the Romania national team in a friendly against Germany, and scored on his debut in a 5–1 win. He went on to make another three appearances for Romania.

{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=3191|title=Gabriel Caramarin|publisher=European Football|accessdate=31 January 2024}}

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|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year

National teamYearAppsGoals
rowspan="1"|Romania

|2004

41
colspan="2"|Total41

:Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Caramarin goal.{{cite web|publisher=Soccerway|url=https://ro.soccerway.com/matches/2004/04/28/world/friendlies/romania/germany/633269/|title=Romania vs. Germany 5 – 1|access-date=31 January 2024}}

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|+ List of international goals scored by Mihăiță Pleșan

scope="col"|No.

!scope="col"|Date

!scope="col"|Venue

!scope="col"|Opponent

!scope="col"|Score

!scope="col"|Result

!scope="col"|Competition

align="center"|128 April 2004Stadionul Giulești-Valentin Stănescu, Bucharest, Romania{{Fb|GER}}align="center"|5–0align="center"|5–1Friendly

Coaching career

After retiring in 2009, he became the assistant coach of Unirea Urziceni and later Steaua București.

He won the Cupa României with Steaua București in 2011 as caretaker head coach.

Honours

=Player=

Național București

Politehnica Timișoara

=Manager=

Steaua București

References

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