Gabriel Gheorghe Caramarin (born 7 September 1977) is a Romanian

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coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach at United Arab Emirates national team.

Career

Caramarin was born in

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. He began his career at Sportul Studenţesc and made his debut in the

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in 1994. After a short interlude at Gloria Bistrita, he rejoined Sportul in 1997, playing 16 matches for the

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-based team. As Sportul relegated, he moved to

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, where he spent the next seven years of his career, making over 150 first league appearances. He joined

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in the winter break of the 2004–05 season, together with Național coach

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and teammates

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, Gigel Coman and

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International career

Caramarin made his debut for the Romania national team in a friendly against

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, and scored on his debut in a 5–1 win. He went on to make another three appearances for Romania. :''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Caramarin goal.''

Coaching career

After retiring in 2009, he became the

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and later Steaua București. He won the

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with Steaua București in

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as caretaker head coach.

Honours

Player

Național București *

runner-up: 2002–03 Politehnica Timișoara *

runner-up: 2006–07

Manager

Steaua București *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caramarin, Gabriel 1977 births Living people People from Măcin Romanian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Romania men's international footballers Liga I players Liga II players FC Politehnica Timișoara players ACF Gloria Bistrița players FC Sportul Studențesc București players FC Progresul București players CS Otopeni players FCSB non-playing staff FCSB managers Romanian football managers Romanian expatriate football managers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate football managers in Cyprus Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates Romanian expatriate sportspeople in China Footballers from Tulcea County