Ilie Balaci

Ilie Balaci (* September 13 1956 in Bistret ) is a former Romanian football player and current football coach. He played a total of 347 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A, and came to 69 inserts for the Romanian national football team. Since the end of his career he has worked as a football coach mainly in the Persian Gulf.

Playing career

At the age of nine years at Universitatea Craiova Balaci began playing football. After he had gone through all the youth teams, he moved to the beginning of the 1973/74 season in the first team and came on August 12, 1973 its first use in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A. Balaci on first attempt the leap to starting players and has already won the Romanian championship in his debut season. He remained Universitatea Craiova faithful to 1985 and experienced the most successful period of the club beginning of the 1980s as a player with, as the club in 1980 and 1981 again won the championship in the years and in 1983 reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. During this time he was twice elected to the Romanian Footballer of the Year. Four Cups rounded off the successful time.

In the fall of 1983, Balaci seriously injured and came a year hardly used. In the fall of 1984 he moved to league rivals FC Olt Scorniceşti, to get back to match fitness. In 1986 he joined Dinamo Bucharest, before he ended his career in 1988.

National

Balaci denied a total of 69 games for the Romanian national football team, scoring eight goals. He made his debut at the age of 17 years on March 23, 1974 against France. Due to a lengthy injury he was unable to attend the European Football Championship in 1984 in France, although he had previously heard about many years in the squad.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career Balaci took over the role playing in the second-rate Divizia B CS Drobeta Turnu Severin as player-coach. From there he moved in 1991 to Tunisia and took over Club Africain Tunis, where in 1992 he won the triple from CAF Champions League, Championnat de Tunisie and Tunisian Cup. In the same year Balaci moved to Olympique Casablanca Morocco, where he was twice the Arab Cup Winners ' Cup Winners' Cup twice Moroccan and Moroccan champion once.

But Balaci left Casablanca in 1994 and moved to Al Shabab in the United Arab Emirates. Before 1996, he left the club, where he won the league and cup. From 1996 to 1998 Balaci coached the Saudi Arabian clubs Al -Nasr ( with Ion Manu as an assistant coach ) and Al -Hilal, with whom he the Champions Cup of the Gulf countries and even champion respectively. With Al -Hilal in 1998 he reached the final of the AFC Champions League.

In 1998 Balaci returned to Romania and took over his hometown club Universitatea Craiova. He was already released but before the winter break again, so he returned to the United Arab Emirates and Al Ain took over the club. Here he added to his collection by winning the Arab Cup, added a championship and a cup win more titles.

Due to his success in the Persian Gulf Balaci received in the spring of 2001 a new opportunity to take Universitatea Craiova. But this time also ended its commitment prematurely after only five games. Balaci returned again to the Middle East and assisted in the following years the two Qatari clubs Al -Sadd and Al -Arabi and the two teams of Al -Ahli and Al Shabab again from the United Arab Emirates.

In December 2002 Balaci had returned to old stamping ground to the Saudi Arabian club Al -Hilal. After the decisive match in the Gulf Club Cup against Al -Arabi al - Kuwait was lost, he gave up his post in March 2003, however, already back on. In February 2006 Balaci was the main shareholder of the Romanian second division FC Caracal with 37.5%.

After his release in Al Shabab in November 2006 Balaci was for a time without a club before he became manager at Universitatea Craiova. In July 2009, he announced his contract and hired in the Kuwaiti Premier League at Kazma SC, which he supervised until March 2010. Immediately before the start of the group stage of the CAF Champions League 2011 Balaci signed on 14 July 2011, a contract with the Moroccan first division club Raja Casablanca.

Achievements

As a player

  • Romanian champion: 1974, 1980, 1981
  • Romanian Cup Winners: 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983
  • Semi-finals of the UEFA Cup: 1983
  • Romanian Footballer of the Year: 1981, 1982

As coach

  • Winner of CAF Champions League: 1992
  • Finalist in the AFC Champions League: 1998
  • Cup Winners' Cup in the Arab States: 1993, 1994, 2000, 2002
  • Cup Winners ' Cup of the Gulf States: 1997, 1998
  • Tunisian champions: 1992
  • Tunisian Cup Winners: 1992
  • Moroccan champion: 1994
  • Moroccan Cup Winners: 1993, 1994
  • Master of the United Arab Emirates: 1995, 2000
  • Cup Winners' Cup in the United Arab Emirates: 1999, 2004
  • Saudi Arabian champions: 1998
Al Nassr FC Al-Hilal FC Al Sadd SC Al-Arabi SC (Qatar) Kazma Sporting Club Liga I 1973–74 Divizia A 1982–83 UEFA Cup Liga II Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 GCC Champions League Al-Arabi SC (Kuwait) 2011 CAF Champions League
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