László Bölöni
László Bölöni ( born March 11, 1953 in Târgu Mureş ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach. He belongs to the Hungarian minority in Transylvania. In the Romanian sports press he was temporarily led by their first name Ladislau.
Career as a player
Bölöni started with the game of football in 1967 Chimica Târnăveni, for he age of 16 played first game in Divizia C. In 1970 he moved to AS Armata Tirgu Mures in the Divizia B, with which he ascended into the Divizia A at the end of the season. There he made his debut on 22 August 1971 at the game against Farul Constanta. Bölöni contributed significantly to the fact that ASA was able to qualify mid-1970s, three times in a row for the UEFA Cup, even if the club was eliminated there in each case in the first round. In 1984 he moved to Steaua Bucharest, where he celebrated his greatest sporting achievements. Overall, he scored 86 goals in 484 games Divizia A and 3 goals in 21 European games. During the winter break of the season 1987/88 he received clearance for abroad and moved to Racing Jet Brussels. He stayed there for exactly one year and moved to the winter break 1988/89 in the second French League for U.S. Créteil. In the summer of 1989 saw the last change to the U.S. Orléans, where he finished his playing career in 1992.
National
His first international match played Bölöni on June 4, 1975, when he came off the bench in the qualifier for the 1976 Olympic Games against Denmark. Since this game and three more in which she has Bölöni and a gate had achieved, was removed in 1999 by FIFA retrospectively from the international games of Romania, now its use in the Balkan Cup against Greece is on 24 September 1975 as the official international debut. For the Romanian national football team, he scored 24 goals in 104 to 1988 games, where he wore the captain's armband in 23 games. At the European Championships in 1984 he solved Cornel Dinu from Romania's most capped player. He was overtaken in 1997 by Gheorghe Hagi. In addition, he played one match for the Romanian U21 and 12 for U23 national soccer team.
Career as a coach
From 1994 until July 2000, Bölöni assistant coach at AS Nancy. In July 2000 he returned to Romania and released Emerich Jenei as national coach from. He oversaw the Romanian national team in 13 international matches until he was replaced in July 2001 by Gheorghe Hagi, who had just finished his active career. Between 2001 and 2003, was Bölöni Coach of Sporting Lisbon, took the first year where the league and cup double. His contract was not renewed during the second, less successful, year after and so he then worked three years with great success at Stade Rennes (including participation in the UEFA Cup ) and moved in summer 2006 to league rivals AS Monaco where he in October 2006 due to the poor table stand ( number 19 ) was released prematurely. On 28 June 2007 Bölöni signed a contract trainer for one year at Al- Jazira Club in the United Arab Emirates. In June 2008 he joined Standard Liege in the footsteps of Michel Preud'homme and was in his first season with the club the same Belgian champion. After disappointing results in the 2009/10 season he joined on 10 February 2010 from his coaching job back. On 28 May 2010 he signed a one year contract with the master of the United Arab Emirates, Al - Wahda. This was dissolved in September 2010 ahead of schedule. In early January 2011, he was obliged by the French first division side RC Lens, but could not prevent its descent into Ligue 2. After the season, he signed on 9 June 2011, a contract with PAOK Thessaloniki in the Greek Super League. In May 2012, he released his contract on prematurely and was in summer 2012 coach of the team qatarischen Al -Khor SC.
Achievements
Successes as a player
- EM participants: 1984
- Winner of the European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1986
- Winner in the European Supercup: 1987
- Romanian champion: 1985, 1986, 1987
- Romanian Cup Winners: 1985, 1987
- Romanian Footballer of the Year: 1977, 1983
Success as a coach
- Promotion to Ligue 1: 1998
- Portuguese champions: 2002
- Portuguese Cup winner: 2002
- Portuguese Supercup winner: 2002
- Asia Golf Club Cup Winners: 2007
- UAE Vice Champion: 2008
- Belgian champion: 2009
- Belgian Supercup winner: 2008, 2009
- Belgian coach of the year: 2009
Others
In addition to his football career, he studied in Târgu Mureş Dentistry and graduated also from. Before the home stadium of AS Armata Tirgu Mures has been left to decay from 2005, it was said in his honor Stadionul Ladislau Bölöni.