Leontin Grozavu

{{Short description|Romanian footballer and manager}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Leo Grozavu

| image =

| caption =

| fullname = Leontin Florian Grozavu

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|8|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Ilișești, Romania

| height = {{convert|1.86|m|abbr=on}}

| position = Defender

| currentclub = Botoșani (head coach)

| youthyears1 = 1979–1985

| youthyears2 = 1985–1988

| youthclubs1 = CSȘ Bacău

| youthclubs2 = Relonul Săvinești

| years1 = 1988–1992

| clubs1 = Maramureș Baia Mare

| caps1 = 61

| goals1 = 9

| years2 = 1992–1998

| clubs2 = Dinamo București

| caps2 = 105

| goals2 = 5

| years3 = 1998–2000

| clubs3 = Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț

| caps3 = 50

| goals3 = 14

| years4 = 2000–2002

| clubs4 = 1. FC Saarbrücken

| caps4 = 22

| goals4 = 1

| years5 = 2002–2003

| clubs5 = Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț

| caps5 = 3

| goals5 = 1

| totalcaps = 241

| totalgoals = 30

| nationalyears1 = 1994

| nationalteam1 = Romania

| nationalcaps1 = 2

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| manageryears1 = 2003–2005

| managerclubs1 = Armătura Zalău

| manageryears2 = 2005–2006

| managerclubs2 = Universitatea Cluj

| manageryears3 = 2007

| managerclubs3 = FC Baia Mare

| manageryears4 = 2007–2008

| managerclubs4 = Botoșani

| manageryears5 = 2008–2009

| managerclubs5 = Vaslui (assistant)

| manageryears6 = 2010–2011

| managerclubs6 = Gheorghe Hagi Academy U15

| manageryears7 = 2012

| managerclubs7 = Luceafărul Oradea

| manageryears8 = 2014–2015

| managerclubs8 = Botoșani

| manageryears9 = 2015–2016

| managerclubs9 = Gaz Metan Mediaș

| manageryears10 = 2016–2017

| managerclubs10 = Botoșani

| manageryears11 = 2018

| managerclubs11 = ACS Poli Timișoara

| manageryears12 = 2018

| managerclubs12 = Petrolul Ploiești

| manageryears13 = 2019–2021

| managerclubs13 = Sepsi OSK

| manageryears14 = 2022–2024

| managerclubs14 = Politehnica Iași

| manageryears15 = 2025–

| managerclubs15 = Botoșani

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Leontin "Leo" Florian Grozavu (born 19 August 1967), is a Romanian football manager and former professional player who played as a defender, currently in charge of Liga I club Botoșani.

Club career

Grozavu played professionally football with FC Baia Mare, Dinamo Bucharest, Ceahlăul Piatra-Neamţ, and abroad for 1. FC Saarbrücken in Germany between 2000 and 2002.{{cite web|publisher=Fussball Daten|title=Leo Florian Grozavu|url=http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/grozavuleoflorian/|language=de|access-date=2010-02-12}}

International career

He made two appearances for the Romania national team during 1994.{{cite web|author=Siminiceanu, Radu|title=Romania National Team 1990–1999 – Details|website=RSSSF|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesr/roem-intres90.html|date=2006-07-26}}

=International stats=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! colspan=3 | Romania

YearAppsGoals
199420
Total||2||0

Coaching career

After retiring Grozavu became a coach, and was in charge at Armătura Zalău (2003–2005), U Cluj (2005–2006), FC Baia Mare (2007), FC Botoşani (2007–2008) and FC Vaslui (2009) as assistant manager for Viorel Moldovan. He also worked for Gheorghe Hagi's football academy together with Doru Carali.

Honours

Sepsi OSK

Politehnica Iași

References

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