Viorel Hizo

Viorel " Dulăul " Hizo ( born February 6, 1947 in Sibiu ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach.

Career

Hizo worked during his active career as a goalkeeper in Soimii Sibiu and other unterklassigen clubs in his hometown. After the rise of FC Inter Sibiu in 1986 in the Divizia B Hizo was assistant coach of the team that in 1988 the rise in the Divizia A managed. After the death of head coach Constantin Ardeleanu Hizo in 1990, his successor. In the 1990/91 season he scored with a fourth place and winning the Balkan Cup the greatest successes of the club's history. However, he left the club in 1991 to become an assistant coach at Dinamo Bucharest Florin Halagian, and returned in December 1992. In October 1993, Rapid Bucharest Hizo took over as successor to Marcel Puşcaş under contract. He was able to qualify with his team in the season 1993/94 for the UEFA Cup and move in there against Sporting Charleroi in the second round, where Rapid retired against Eintracht Frankfurt. In the season 1994 /95 Rapid separated in March 1995, when the missed at the end of the European Cup participation was in danger of Hizo. After he had looked after the league rivals FC Naţional Bucharest until end of season, Hizo returned with the beginning of season 1995/96 Rapid back. His second term already ended in early October 1995, when the club had dropped back into mid-table.

In early 1996, took over as successor to Hizo Csaba Györffy head coach of league rivals FC Braşov, he led the league. When the club was a year later, on the last place, he was released in March 1997 and replaced by Marian Mihail, who could not avoid relegation. Hizo itself was signed in the summer of 1997 from the top club Dinamo Bucharest. Since the qualification aimed at was at risk for the European Cup, he resigned on April 5, 1998 back to the 0:5 defeat at Steaua Bucharest and was replaced by Cornel Dinu. He then became an assistant to Florin Halagian FCM Bacau. After the twelfth round of the 1998/99 season he was head coach from 1998 Piatra Neamt Ceahlăul in November. He managed to qualify for the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1999, where he was eliminated in the third round on away goals against Juventus. In the season 1999/2000 he was able to repeat this success. In the second half of the Erstrundenrückspiels against the Estonian representative JK Trans Narva on June 25, 2000 Hizo left the team because he refused to replace the striker Florin Aksinia at the behest of club president Gheorghe Ştefan. According to the lawsuit Ceahlăuls the league profesionista de Fotbal a one-year prohibition on all top division was imposed Hizo on 2 September 2000 and would later on 10 April 2001 with Rapid Bucharest agreement concluded initially void.

In the summer of 2001 Hizo was still the third time coach of Rapid Bucharest. He led his team to the Cup final in 2002, but was dismissed two weeks before the final, on 16 May 2002 and replaced by Mircea Rednic. In August 2002, he joined the successor of Petre Grigoraş at Farul Constanta, but had been during the winter break to go again. At the beginning of the season he returned to Ceahlăul, which he led in the Intertoto Cup again. In March 2003, the club was on the bottom of the table, was dismissed as Hizo and replaced by Marius Lăcătuş. Already in April 2004, he undertook again Rapid Bucharest. With the reigning champion missed the end of the season 2003/ 04 to qualify for the UEFA Cup and was allowed to go after the season.

After a year in China Hizo returned in September 2005, to Romania. The promoted Pandurii Târgu Jiu was after four games in the last place, as he had separated from his coach Emil Săndoi. He could not lead the club out of the basement table and was released in early May 2006. After a stint in the second division Delta Tulcea he inherited on September 26, 2006, two days before resigning Gheorghe Mulţescu the league rivals FC Vaslui. After the end of the 2006/07 season he had Dorinel Munteanu soft. At the beginning of the season 2007 /08 he was the third time head coach of Piatra Neamţ Ceahlăul had to stay with the club at the end of the season. On 10 June 2008 he signed a two -year contract with FC Vaslui. There he started with five wins from six matches in the 2008/ 09 season, in early November 2008 has been released after seven games without a win. In May 2009, he again took Rapid Bucharest under contract, where he missed the successor of Marian Rada to qualify for the Europa League. In the season 2009/10 he was a good start with his team, had to give way in October 2009 yet.

On 4 January 2010, he joined the coaching reins on to the second division Universitatea Cluj and remained for three months. Hizo returned in October 2010 back to FC Vaslui, who had previously dismissed Juan Ramón López Caro. In the 2010/11 season he led his team to third place, the person entitled to qualify for the Champions League due to the exclusion of the second-placed FC Timişoara. There he missed against FC Twente Enschede to qualify for the group stage and got down into the Europa League. After the play-off victory against Sparta Prague, he retired with his club in the group stage against Sporting Lisbon Lazio and Rome. After the club had to cancel a training camp in Poiana Brasov pressure on the player and relocate to Antalya in January 2012, was dismissed from Hizo patron Adrian Porumboiu on 27 January 2012. Since September 2012, he is by followers of Marius Şumudică again head coach in Vaslui.

  • Balkan Cup: 1991
  • Champions League qualification: 2011
  • Qualification for the UEFA Cup: 1994
  • Qualification for the Intertoto Cup: 1999, 2000, 2003
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