Gavrilă Birău

Club career Birău was born on 10 February 1945 in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania and practised ice hockey, skiing, boxing and football until he was around the age of 18 when he began focusing exclusively on football. Afterwards he won two consecutive titles in the 1968–69 and 1969–70 seasons. Coach Dumitrescu used him for 30 matches in each of those seasons, scoring a goal in the second one. Birău also made some European performances with The Old Lady, such as eliminating defending champions Feyenoord in the 1970–71 European Cup. He spent 12 seasons at UTA, his last Divizia A game took place on 20 June 1976 in a 3–2 away loss to ASA Târgu Mureș, totaling 319 matches with three goals in the competition and 14 appearances in European competitions.

Later life and death After he ended his career, Birău coached teams from Arad like Strungul, Indagrara, CPL and also UTA on a few occasions.

Honours UTA Arad Divizia A: 1968–69, 1969–70 Cupa României runner-up: 1965–66