Gabriel Caramarin
Gabriel Gheorghe Caramarin (born 7 September 1977, in Măcin) is a retired Romanian footballer and the current assistant manager of Jiangsu Suning.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 September 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Măcin, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Jiangsu Suning (assistant) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1995 | Sportul Studenţesc București | 1 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | Gloria Bistriţa | 1 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | Sportul Studenţesc București | 16 | (9) |
| 1998–2005 | Naţional București | 170 | (37) |
| 2005–2008 | Politehnica Timişoara | 54 | (8) |
| 2008–2009 | Otopeni | 31 | (5) |
| Total | 261 | (65) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2004–2009 | Romania | 4 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2009–2010 | Unirea Urziceni (assistant) | ||
| 2010 | Unirea Urziceni (caretaker) | ||
| 2010–2011 | Steaua București (assistant) | ||
| 2011 | Steaua București (caretaker) | ||
| 2011–2013 | Anorthosis Famagusta (assistant) | ||
| 2018– | Jiangsu Suning (assistant) | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 December 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 November 2009 | |||
Caramarin began his career at Sportul Studenţesc and made his debut in the Divizia A in 1994. After a short interlude at Gloria Bistrita, he rejoined Sportul in 1997, playing 16 matches for the Bucharest-based team. As Sportul relegated, he moved to FC Naţional, where he spent the next seven years of his career, making over 150 first league appearances. He joined Poli in the winter break of the 2004–05 season, together with Național coach Cosmin Olăroiu and teammates Gabriel Cânu, Gigel Coman and Marius Popa.
Caramarin made his debut for the national side in a friendly against Germany, and scored on his debut in a 5–1 win. Since then, he has made another three appearances for Romania.
After retiring in 2009, he became the assistant coach of Unirea Urziceni and later Steaua București.
He won the Cupa României with Steaua București in 2011 as caretaker head coach.