Gabriel Caramarin

Who is Gabriel Caramarin?

Gabriel Gheorghe Caramarin is a retired Romanian football player, and current assistant coach of Anorthosis Famagusta.

Caramarin 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.

Caramarin made his debut for the national side in a friendly against Germany, and scored on his debut in a 5–1 win. Since then, he has made another three appearances for Romania.

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.