Daniel Isăilă

Daniel Isăilă
Personal information
Full nameDaniel Ionuț Isăilă
Date of birth29 June 1972
Place of birthBrașov, Romania
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing positionCentre back
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1992–1997Tractorul Brașov87(5)
1997–2000FC Brașov89(3)
2000–2001FC Rapid București9(0)
2001–2006FC Brașov103(5)
Teams managed
2006–2007FC Săcele
2007–2010FC Brașov (assistant coach)
2010FC Brașov
2011FC Brașov (assistant coach)
2011FC Brașov
2011–2012Sportul Studențesc
2012–2013ASA Târgu Mureș
2013–2014Astra Giurgiu
2014Astra Giurgiu
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Daniel Isăilă (born 29 June 1972 in Brașov) is a Romanian retired football player and currently a manager. His football career was based on his time playing for FC Brașov after his debut at the local hometown team of Tractorul Brașov.

He played 149 matches in Liga I, scoring seven goals. He played eight times in the UEFA Cup, four games each with Rapid București and FC Brașov, in 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons, scoring a goal in the competition for Brașov.

He began his coaching career in 2006 at second league club FC Săcele. He then joined the technical staff of Răzvan Lucescu, becoming his assistant at FC Brașov.

From July 2010 he was in numerous occasions the head coach of FC Brașov, overseen by technical director Daniel Oprea, Isăilă not having the PRO License coach certificate yet.

In November 2011, Isăilă signed a contract for four seasons with Sportul Studențesc. The club relegated under his command. In August 2012, he moved to second division club FCM Târgu Mureș, where he received a contract for a season with the main objective being promotion in Liga I. He resigned in the middle of the season, because the team was far from reaching the target, being only 5th after 16 games.

In April 2013, he became head coach and wrote the history of Liga I team Astra Giurgiu. With Astra Giurgiu he had fantastic performance and in two years he won almost everything possible: he won the Romanian Cup on 23 May in Bucharest, at National Arena Stadium against Steaua Bucharest in front of 53.000 of supporters of Steaua Bucharest: on 11th of July he won the second historical cup for Astra, the Supercup, again at National Arena and again against Steaua Bucharest. After the best performance of Astra Giurgiu in championship, (2nd place) he qualified team in Europa League Gruop for the first time, winning against Olympic Lyon in a fantastci double match which will remain in the history of Astra. In October 2014, he had fight with owner who put him out of the team. Actually he's the second coach of Romanian National Team.

Coaching stats

As of 22 March 2014
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA Win %
FC Braşov Romania 9 July 2010 1 November 2011 (Combined) 30 7 11 12 25 34 23.33
Sportul Studenţesc Romania 3 November 2011 22 August 2012 22 5 6 11 22 34 22.73
ASA Târgu Mureș Romania 24 August 2012 11 March 2013 14 7 2 5 17 14 50.00
Astra Giurgiu Romania 14 April 2013 22 March 2014 32 18 9 5 67 33 56.25
Astra Giurgiu Romania 9 May 2014 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 98 37 28 33 131 115 37.76

Honours

Manager

Astra Giurgiu

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