Dušan Uhrin Jr.

Dušan Uhrin Jr. (born 11 October 1967) is a Czech football manager who most recently was the manager of Romania's Liga I team Gaz Metan Mediaș. He is the son of Dušan Uhrin senior who is also a football manager.

Dušan Uhrin Jr.
Personal information
Date of birth (1967-10-11) 11 October 1967
Place of birth Prague, Czechoslovakia
Youth career
1974–1975 Meteor Prague
1975–1984 Bohemians Prague
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1986 Meteor Prague
1986–1988 Montáže Prague
1988–1990 FC Jílové
1990–1992 RH Strašnice
Teams managed
2002–2004 Bohemians Prague
2004–2007 Mladá Boleslav
2007–2008 Politehnica Timişoara
2009 CFR Cluj
2009–2010 Mladá Boleslav
2010 AEL Limassol
2010–2011 Politehnica Timişoara
2012–2013 Dinamo Tbilisi
2013–2014 Viktoria Plzeň
2014–2015 Dinamo Minsk
2015–2016 Slavia Prague
2017–2018 Mladá Boleslav
2019–2020 Dinamo București
2020 Gaz Metan Mediaș
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Dušan Uhrin Jr. played in his youth at Meteor Prague and Bohemians Prague. He started his senior career at Meteor in 1984, before moving to Montáže Prag and subsequently FC Jílové. While at the latter, Uhrin suffered a severe injury and decided to concentrate on a coaching career. Between 1990 and 1991 he stepped up into the role of player/manager at RH Strašnice, but afterwards only kept on playing on occasion for FC Jílové until 1998, when he retired altogether from his playing career.

Managing career

Although Uhrin first managed RH Strašnice in 1990, his first real major team in 2000, when he co-coached Sparta Prague. He got a longer managing stint at Bohemians Prague between 2002 and 2004, but Uhrin came into the limelight while at FK Mladá Boleslav, whom he took over in 2004. After saving the team from relegation in his first season, he managed the amazing feat of becoming vice-champions of the Czech first league in the 2005–06 season. Mladá Boleslav impressed in Europe the following season, not least because of defeating Olympique de Marseille in the first round of the UEFA Cup, and one of the people who took notice of Uhrin's achievements was Timișoara boss Marian Iancu. Despite finishing third with Mladá Boleslav that year, Dušan Uhrin Jr. accepted to take over Politehnica Timișoara, stating that it was important for him to find a new challenge.

Politehnica Timișoara and return

In the first year at Timișoara, Uhrin achieved qualification to the UEFA Cup, thereby marking the first European presence of a Timișoara team since 1992. Although his achievements in the first half of the 2008/2009 season were even more impressive, with the club being placed third despite a six-point penalty imposed by FIFA, the FC Timișoara owner, Marian Iancu, decided to sack Dušan Uhrin Jr. in early December, for undisclosed reasons. (Marian Iancu is known though to often do such uninspired moves, also sacking before the end of the season – the best in the team's history – the follower of Dušan Uhrin Jr. as team coach and having done something similarly a few years before with Romanian coach Cosmin Olăroiu).

On 13 December 2010, Dušan was announced the new Politehnica Timişoara's Head Coach signed for one year with option to renewal for two years. After his come back he spoke for official site : ""I hope the stadium will be full again! But, above all, I promise to our fans that we play good attacking football. We hope to bring out the best place possible. I want to have the same relationship with the fans from the last time, because Poli's supporters were wonderful. I'm glad that we have again the colors that he had a team since I started coaching in 2007. These are Poli's true colors!".[1] Uhrin made an impressive re-debut by winning all of the first four matches. But after that series of victories Poli unluckily gained only one victory in the following six games. Although Poli finished second at the end of the 2010–11 Liga I season and was supposed to play in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, it was relegated to the Liga II because of accumulated debt and Dušan Uhrin left Poli on 27 July 2011.[2]

Dinamo Tbilisi

In June 2012, he signed a contract with Dinamo Tbilisi for two years.[3] During his first year, Dinamo managed to win Georgian Championship for the first time after 2008.[4] He resigned on December 6, 2013,[5] and will return to the Czech Republic to manage FC Viktoria Plzeň in 2014.[6]

Statistics

As a Manager
As of 10 September 2017
Team From To Record
GWDLGFGAWin %
Bohemians Prague 25 June 2002 18 October 2004 66 16 18 32 76 58 024.24
Mladá Boleslav 19 October 2004 28 May 2007 81 38 24 19 124 98 046.91
Politehnica Timişoara 11 June 2007 2 December 2008 41 21 11 9 66 46 051.22
CFR Cluj 1 March 2009 7 April 2009 6 4 1 1 7 4 066.67
Mladá Boleslav 1 July 2009 26 December 2009 16 7 4 5 28 23 043.75
AEL Limassol 1 January 2010 21 September 2010 20 11 4 5 36 25 055.00
Politehnica Timişoara 13 December 2010 27 July 2011 16 9 5 2 33 17 056.25
Dinamo Tbilisi 1 June 2012 6 December 2013 53 37 10 6 135 48 069.81
Viktoria Plzeň 17 December 2013 11 August 2014 30 15 9 6 54 32 050.00
Dinamo Minsk 21 December 2014 30 April 2015 7 1 3 3 6 9 014.29
Slavia Prague 16 May 2015 29 August 2016 42 17 14 11 68 46 040.48
Mladá Boleslav 13 June 2017 24 February 2018 10 4 1 5 13 16 040.00
Dinamo Bucuresti 13 August 2019 10 March 2020 26 12 4 10 46 32 046.15
Gaz Metan Medias 9 June 2020 24 September 2020 12 2 2 8 12 22 016.67
Total 426 194 110 122 704 478 045.54

Honours
Dinamo Tbilisi

References
  1. "Dušan Uhrin return to Poli". Politehnica Timişoara. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
  2. "Dušan Uhrin resigned from Poli". Politehnica Timişoara. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  3. Dusan Uhrin junior will be appointed as the head coach of Dinamo Tbilisi; FCdinamo.ge, 31 May 2012
  4. Dinamo is Champion; FCdinamo.ge, 7 May 2013
  5. Dusan Uhrin Left "Dinamo". Worldsport.ge. December 6, 2013.
  6. "Uhrin junior ukončil svou misi v Gruzii a míří do Plzně. Prezident tbiliského Dinama to potvrdil". sport.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 16 December 2013.
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