Zoltán Kádár

Zoltán Kádár (born 4 October 1966) is a Romanian former professional footballer who serves as an assistant for Swiss Super League club Young Boys.

Club career Kádár, of Hungarian ethnicity, was born on 4 October 1966 in Ozun, Romania and began playing junior-level football in Brașov for local club Tractorul. In 1984 he joined FC Brașov where he won the junior republican championship in 1985 and also made his senior Divizia A debut. In 1987, he enrolled at the Babeș-Bolyai University, subsequently playing for the university's club Universitatea Cluj. He also made 14 appearances in European competitions, including playing in Dinamo's 2–1 victory on aggregate against Luis Figo's Sporting Lisbon in the 1991–92 UEFA Cup. Subsequently, he played all four games in the 1992–93 Champions League campaign, helping them eliminate Kuusysi Lahti in the first round of the 1992–93 Champions League. Dinamo faced Olympique Marseille in the second round, where they drew 0–0 in the first leg but lost the subsequent game with 2–0, the French ultimately winning the competition. However, he was approached by former Dinamo teammate, Gábor Gerstenmájer, who then played in Switzerland, and Kádár accepted the offer to play for his team, Schaffhausen. His last game for the national team was on 13 February 1994 in a 2–1 victory against the United States.

FC Zürich In July 2017, he joined city rivals FC Zürich as assistant and forward coach, as well as video analyst, joining up again with Uli Forte. He remained at FC Zürich after Forte's departure in 2018 and continued serving as assistant of incoming manager Ludovic Magnin until April 2019.

Grasshopper Club (second stint) During the 2018–19 season, Grasshopper were struggling badly and found themselves at the bottom of the league. On 10 April 2019, Kadar was hired to once again assist Uli Forte to mitigate the disaster that was the 2018–19 Grasshopper season. Sadly, the cup winning coaching team could not avoid relegation and accompanied the club to the Swiss Challenge League for the following season. Kadar remained as assistant to incoming manager Goran Djuricin in February 2020. He became interim coach in May 2020 at the tail end of the season, after Djuricin was terminated when promotion became very unlikely.

For the following season, João Carlos Pereira was appointed as head coach and Kadar become his assistant until November 2020, when he was appointed head of the training of the GC academy. When Grasshoppers were in danger of missing promotion again, Pereira was terminated in May 2021 and Kadar took up the caretaker role for the third time. He successfully led the team to promotion back to the Swiss Super League.

Despite this success, he returned to managing the GC academy after the end of the season.

Young Boys On 14 June 2022, he departed Grasshopper to join BSC Young Boys as assistant coach to Raphaël Wicky.

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Honours Player Dinamo București Divizia A: 1991–92

Coach Grasshopper Swiss Challenge League: 2020–21