Nicolae Ungureanu

Nicolae " Nae " Ungureanu ( born November 11, 1956 in Craiova ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach. He played a total of 437 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A and participated in the European Football Championship 1984.

Playing career

Ungureanu began his career in the youth team of CSS Craiova and moved at the age of 18 years to Electro Craiova, which played into the second-class Divizia B. There, the local rivals Universitatea Craiova became aware of him and took him in 1977 under contract. At Uni Craiova he experienced the most successful period of the club: he won there in 1980 and 1981, the Romanian Cup and in 1978, 1981, and 1983 the Romanian Cup. In the European Cup, he reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, where the team was eliminated only on away goals against Benfica in the 1982/83 season.

In 1987, he left and joined Craiova Steaua Bucharest, one of the best in Europe at that time clubs, at. With Steaua followed by two more championships in 1988 and 1989 and reaching the finals in the European Cup of Champions 1988/89, which was lost to AC Milan. 1992 left Ungureanu Steaua and Rapid Bucharest moved to local rivals, where he finished his career in 1993.

National

Ungureanu denied a total of 57 games for the Romanian national football team, scoring one goal. He made his debut on April 8, 1981 against Israel. National coach Mircea Lucescu nominated him for the European Football Championship 1984 in France and placed it in all three games over the full distance a. After just missing out on qualification for Euro 1988, the new coach Emerich Jenei put him only three times and finally decided against it.

Coaching career

After his retirement he took over in 1993 the post of head coach at FC Drobeta Turnu Severin, who played into the Divizia B. Beginning of April 1994 signed him Electro Craiova, which he saved from relegation from the Divizia A. After a poor start to the 1994/95 season he had to go again.

In 1995, Electro Putere brought him back to achieve the re-emergence in the Divizia A. The target was missed by a wide and Ungureanu moved again in 1996 to Turnu Severin, who played in Divizia C. Since the objective of advancement was missed as a Second scarce, Ungureanu had to leave the club again.

In 1997, first Ungureanu paused as a coach and took over the leadership of the youth center of Universitatea Craiova, in the rest of the season, he also oversaw the youth team of the club. During the 1998/99 season Ungureanu took over for the third time as coach in Turnu Severin, who played now in Divizia B. In 1999 he got the opportunity to work under new coach Emil Săndoi at Universitatea Craiova. After his move to vice president in 2000 Ungureanu first took over the youth team, but jumped in the rest of the season as a head coach. He managed with the 8th most successful season in recent years and the qualification for the UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Despite his success his contract with Universitatea Craiova was not renewed and Ungureanu took iNTernational Piteşti in Divizia B. After two years he had Piteşti in 2003 to leave. In 2004 he took over the FC Caracal ( also Divizia B) and led him twice to relegation. As of April 17, 2006 Ungureanu worked for the last seven games of the season 2005/ 06 for the gambling in Divizia A club Pandurii Târgu Jiu, he led the league in place of Viorel Hizo. He then became an assistant coach at Universitatea Craiova Ovidiu Stîngă, with which he, however, left the club again in September 2006. On 12 March 2007 Ungureanu returned as head coach of FC Caracal and sparked there 's unsuccessful Emil Vlăduţ from. FC Caracal ended the season in seventh place his squadron, launched in the following season, however, with two draws and eight defeats. Ungureanu solved then on 24 October 2007 his contract and was replaced by former coach of Universitatea Craiova, Florin Cioroianu. In September 2008, he was assistant coach of Ştefan Stoica at International Curtea de Arges, came with the end of the season promotion to the League 1. In July 2009, Ungureanu received from his club the release to begin as technical director at Universitatea Craiova.

Achievements

As a player

  • EM participants: 1984
  • Romanian champion: 1980, 1981, 1988, 1989
  • Romanian Cup Winners: 1978, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1992
  • Finals in the European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1989
  • Semi-finals of the UEFA Cup: 1983
Liga I Liga II 1982–83 UEFA Cup S.L. Benfica 1988–89 European Cup A.C. Milan 1994–95 Divizia A Liga III 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2005–06 Divizia A
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