László Balint
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | György László Balint | ||
| Date of birth | 29 March 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Brașov, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Full back, Centre back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1998 | FC Brașov | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2000 | Rapid Energia Brașov | ||
| 2000–2001 | Romradiatoare Brașov | ||
| 2001–2005 | FC Brașov | 65 | (1) |
| 2005–2006 | CFR Cluj | 13 | (0) |
| 2007 | UTA Arad | 29 | (3) |
| 2007–2009 | Unirea Urziceni | 19 | (1) |
| 2009 | Diósgyőr | 11 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Unirea Tărlungeni | 16 | (2) |
| Total | 153 | (7) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2010–2014 | Unirea Tărlungeni | ||
| 2014–2015 | FC Brașov (assistant) | ||
| 2015–2016 | Academica Clinceni | ||
| 2017 | ASA Târgu Mureș | ||
| 2017–2018 | Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc | ||
| 2018–2019 | Sportul Snagov | ||
| 2019 | Metaloglobus București | ||
| 2019–2022 | UTA Arad | ||
| 2022 | Universitatea Craiova | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 August 2022 | |||
György László "Gyuszi" Balint (born March 29, 1979) is a Romanian football manager and former player, who was most recently in charge of Liga I club Universitatea Craiova..
Career
Balint was born in Brașov, Romania, into an ethnic Hungarian family.[1] In his early career as a footballer, he played for Rapid Energia Braşov, Romradiatoare Braşov, before joining FC Brașov in 2001, where he played for four seasons in Liga I. After the club's relegation he moved to CFR Cluj, under player-coach Dorinel Munteanu, reaching with his new club into the Intertoto Cup finals of 2005.[2] The following season, he transferred to another Liga I club, UTA Arad. In 2007, he is brought by Dan Petrescu into the squad of Unirea Urziceni, a team that would gain its first championship title in history two years later. After that, followed a short spell at Diósgyőr in the Hungarian First Division, before signing as a player-manager for Unirea Tărlungeni in the Romanian Liga III, a club near his hometown of Braşov. Under his management, Unirea Tărlungeni promoted for the first time in history in the Romanian Liga II. After coaching Unirea Tărlungeni for a year in Romanian Liga II în January 2015 was employed by FC Brașov as assistant coach for the second part of the 2014-2015 Romanian Liga I, followed by an employment as head-coach at Academica Clinceni in the Romanian Liga II. In June 2017, he was appointed as head-coach at Târgu Mureș, team that has relegated from the Romanian Liga I to the Romanian Liga II, where he spent only 3 months, resigning after the 6th match in the league, when ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș was sitting 3rd in the table. After his short spell at Târgu Mureș he took over the management of FK Miercurea Ciuc, finishing second at the end of the 2017–2018 season of Liga III, highest ranking in the club history. In June 2018, he accepted the offer from Sportul Snagov, team that finished 10th in the 2017–2018 season of Liga II, and under his command, the team becomes the biggest surprise of the competition, finishing the first part of the 2018–2019 season at the top of the table. Because of the financial problems that Sportul Snagov is struggling with, Gyuszi decides to leave the club in January 2019, along with many important players. Currently, he is in charge of UTA Arad. He arrived at Arad in 2019, with great ambitions and a long-term project. Under his command, UTA won the Liga II at the end of 2019/2020 season and now is playing in Liga I.
Honours
Player
CFR Cluj
- UEFA Intertoto Cup runner-up: 2005[2]
Unirea Urziceni
- Cupa României runner-up: 2007–08[3]
Manager
Unirea Tărlungeni
UTA Arad
Career statistics
Managerial
- As of 7 August 2022
| Team | Country | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
| Unirea Tărlungeni | 
|
1 January 2010 | 25 June 2014 | 142 | 72 | 28 | 42 | 50.70 |
| Academica Clinceni |
|
1 July 2015 | 15 March 2016 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 54.55 |
| ASA Târgu Mureș |
|
15 June 2017 | 5 September 2017 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 66.67 |
| Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc |
|
10 September 2017 | 30 June 2018 | 26 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 73.08 |
| Sportul Snagov |
|
1 July 2018 | 17 January 2019 | 23 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 65.22 |
| Metaloglobus București |
|
18 January 2019 | 1 June 2019 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 47.06 |
| UTA Arad |
|
1 July 2019 | 31 January 2022 | 95 | 37 | 28 | 30 | 38.95 |
| Universitatea Craiova |
|
13 June 2022 | 9 August 2022 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 28.57 |
| Total | 338 | 169 | 76 | 93 | 50.00 | |||
References
- ^ "S-au desprins pe final".
- ^ a b "Nu-i totul pierdut" [Not all is lost] (in Romanian). Gds.ro. 11 August 2005. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ "Romanian Cup - Season 2007 - 2008". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ a b László Balint at Soccerway
External links
- László Balint at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent
- Sportspeople from Brașov
- Romanian footballers
- Association football defenders
- Liga I players
- Liga II players
- Liga III players
- FC Brașov (1936) players
- CFR Cluj players
- FC UTA Arad players
- FC Unirea Urziceni players
- ACF Gloria Bistrița players
- Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
- Diósgyőri VTK players
- CS Unirea Tărlungeni players
- Romanian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Hungary
- Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
- Romanian football managers
- FC Academica Clinceni managers
- ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș managers
- FK Miercurea Ciuc managers
- CS Sportul Snagov managers
- FC Metaloglobus București managers
- FC UTA Arad managers
- CS Universitatea Craiova managers
- Liga I managers
- Liga II managers