Gabriel Caramarin

Gabriel Gheorghe Caramarin (born 7 September 1977) is a Romanian football coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach at United Arab Emirates national team.

Gabriel Caramarin

Personal information
Date of birth	(1977-09-07) 7 September 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth	Măcin, Romania
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	United Arab Emirates (assistant)
Youth career
	CSȘ București
0000–1995	Sportul Studenţesc
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–1998	Sportul Studenţesc	17	(9)
1996–1997	→ Gloria Bistriţa (loan)	1	(0)
1998–2004	Naţional București	170	(37)
2005–2007	Politehnica Timişoara	53	(8)
2008–2009	Otopeni	31	(5)
Total		272	(60)
International career
1996–1998	Romania U21	8	(1)
2004	Romania	4	(1)
Managerial career
2010	Unirea Urziceni (assistant)
2010	Unirea Urziceni (caretaker)
2010–2011	Steaua București (assistant)
2011	Steaua București (caretaker)
2011–2013	Anorthosis Famagusta (assistant)
2015–2017	Al-Ahli (assistant)
2018–2021	Jiangsu Suning (assistant)
2021–2025	Sharjah (assistant)
2025–	United Arab Emirates (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Caramarin was born in Măcin. He 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.

International career

Caramarin made his debut for the Romania national team in a friendly against Germany, and scored on his debut in a 5–1 win. He went on to make another three appearances for Romania.

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Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Romania	2004	4	1
Total		4	1

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Caramarin goal.^[2]

List of international goals scored by Mihăiță Pleșan

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	28 April 2004	Stadionul Giulești-Valentin Stănescu, Bucharest, Romania	Germany	5–0	5–1	Friendly

Coaching career

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.

Honours

Player

Național București

• Cupa României runner-up: 2002–03

Politehnica Timișoara

• Cupa României runner-up: 2006–07

Manager

Steaua București

• Cupa României: 2010–11