Gábor Gerstenmájer (born 13 September 1967) is a Romanian
footballer
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. He won the Romanian Golden Boot award in 1992 while playing for
Dinamo București A dynamo is a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator.
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Places
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. Following his success with Dinamo a move to
Swiss Super League
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took place and he played there until his retirement.
International career
Gerstenmájer played three games at international level for
Romania
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, making his debut under coach
Mircea Rădulescu
Mircea Rădulescu (born 31 August 1941 in Bucharest) is a Romanian former football player and manager.
Life and career
Rădulescu was born in Bucharest and appeared in nearly 300 football matches. He was a member of Rapid București at junior l ...
, in a friendly which ended with a 1–0 loss against
Greece
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.
His following game was a 5–1 victory against
Wales
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at the
1994 World Cup qualifiers.
[ Gerstenmájer's last game for the national team was a friendly which ended with a 2–0 victory against ]Mexico
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.[
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Personal life
Gerstenmájer is of German swabian descent and was born in Satu Mare
Satu Mare (; ; ; or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania ...
.
Honours
Dinamo București
* Liga I
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: 1991–92
FC Luzern
* Swiss Challenge League
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: 1992–93
Individual
* Divizia A Golden Boot : 1991–92[
]
References
External links
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1967 births
Living people
Footballers from Satu Mare
Romanian men's footballers
Romania men's international footballers
FC Olimpia Satu Mare players
FC Brașov (1936) players
FC Dinamo București players
FC Luzern players
FC Schaffhausen players
FC Winterthur players
FC Baden players
Liga I players
Liga II players
Romanian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Romanian people of German descent
FC Frauenfeld players
Men's association football midfielders
Romanian football managers
Romanian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Switzerland
FC Baden managers
20th-century Romanian sportsmen
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