Romulus Gabor

Romulus Gabor (born 14 October 1961) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a winger and as a forward.

Club career Gabor was born on 14 October 1961 in Pui, Hunedoara County, Romania. He began playing football at age 13 at Jiul Petroșani, where he stayed for a short while before moving to Corvinul Hunedoara. On 28 October 1978 he made his Divizia A debut under coach Ilie Savu in Corvinul's 2–0 loss to Argeș Pitești. At the end of his first season, they were relegated to Divizia B, but Gabor stayed with Corvinul, being used more often after coach Mircea Lucescu came to the club, earning promotion back to the first division after one year. He also appeared in all four games in the 1982–83 UEFA Cup campaign, scoring once as they got past Grazer AK in the first round, being eliminated in the following one by FK Sarajevo.

After 13 seasons spent with Corvinul, he was transferred to Hungarian club, Diósgyőr where he was teammates with compatriot and former Corvinul colleague, Ioan Petcu. He made his Nemzeti Bajnokság I debut on 15 September 1991 under coach Ladislau Vlad in a 2–1 home loss to Vasas. Gabor has a total of 304 Divizia A appearances with 64 goals scored. He appeared in six games in which he scored four goals, helping the team finish the tournament in third position, winning the bronze medal. He also won the Golden Ball award for the best player of the tournament and the Bronze shoe for the third top-scorer of the competition. He played six games in the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers. Afterwards he was used by Lucescu in two games in the final tournament, as Romania did not get past the group stage. He scored his first goal for the national team from a free kick in a 1–1 friendly draw against Turkey.

International goals Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gabor goal. In the 2007–08 season he was the assistant of Ioan Andone at CFR Cluj as the club won The Double. Romanian Footballer of the Year (fifth place): 1981