Emerich Jenei

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Emerich Jenei
Personal information
Full name Emerich Jenei
Date of birth March 22, 1937 (1937-03-22) (age 71)
Place of birth    Agriş, Arad County, Romania
Playing position Defensive midfielder
Club information
Current club Retired
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1955-1956
1957-1969
1969-1971		 Flamura Roşie Arad
Steaua Bucureşti
Kayserispor		 21 (2)
254 (7)
? (?)
   
National team2
1959-1964 Romania 12 (0)
Teams managed
1975-1978
1978-1979
1981-1982
1983-1984
1984-1986
1986-1990
1990-1991
1991
1993-1994
1996
1998-2000
2000		 Steaua Bucureşti
FC Bihor Oradea
CS Târgovişte
Steaua Bucureşti
Steaua Bucureşti
Romania
Hungary
Steaua Bucureşti
Steaua Bucureşti
Universitatea Craiova
Steaua Bucureşti
Romania

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of July 19, 2006.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of July 19, 2006.
* Appearances (Goals)

Emerich Jenei or Imre Jenei (also known as Emeric Jenei or Ienei; March 22, 1937), is a Romanian football player and coach. In May 1986 he won the European Cup as coach of Steaua Bucureşti. He is considered one of Romania's best coaches, alongside Anghel Iordănescu, Victor Piţurcă and Mircea Lucescu

[edit] Biography

An ethnic Hungarian, Jenei was born in Agriş, Arad County, and made his debut playing for Flamura Roşie Arad — now UT Arad, in the Romanian Liga I. In 1957, at age 20, he signed with Steaua club in Bucharest (1957). He played for Steaua until 1969, when he left Romania to play in Turkey for Kayserispor. In 1971, Jenei retired as player and became a coach. During his career as a footballer, he won 12 caps for Romania's national team (between 1959 and 1964).

The highlights of his career as a player were the Romanian football championship titles he won with Steaua in 1959-1960, 1960-1961 and 1967-1968.

As a coach, Jenei continued to enjoy success. Having returned from Turkey, he was named assistant coach at Steaua at the beginning of the 1972-1973 season. One year later, he was promoted to a head coaching position and finished 5th in Liga I, winning his first championship title as coach in 1976, then finishing as a runner-up in 1977. He won another championship title in 1978, but at the end of the season he was replaced by Gheorghe Constantin.

In 1978-1979, Jenei coached FC Bihor of Oradea, but the team finished the season in last place and he was sacked as a result. In 1981, he took over at CS Târgovişte, and the beginning of the 1982-1983 season found him as coach of Steaua for a second stint. After two years, in which failed to win the championship, he was again sacked, only to be brought back after four months.

In 1985 he won a new championship and in the following season led Steaua Bucureşti to victory in the European Cup final against FC Barcelona in May 1986. In the summer of 1986, Jenei was named co-head coach of the Romanian national football team, together with Mircea Lucescu, making his debut against Norway. Lucescu was sacked after a short while and Jenei became the only national team coach. He failed to qualify the team for Euro 88, but took the team to World Cup 1990. It was the first qualification of Romania at a World Cup in twenty years. Between August 1986 and June 1990, Jenei coached the team in 40 games, including two wins against Spain in 1987 and Italy in 1988.

After the World Cup, he was named head coach of Hungary but failed to produce notable results, being sacked after a short period of time. He returned to Romania in April 1991, when he was offered the job of Steaua's head coach for the fourth time, only to be sacked again in December of same year.

Jenei did not return to the pitch for a while, but, in August 1993, Emerich Jenei began his fifth stint as coach of Steaua, and won the championship one year later. In 1996, he was named head coach of Universitatea Craiova but was sacked after only ten games. Two years later he returned to Steaua for his sixth and final stint there.

In 2000, Jenei he was again called to coach Romania. The squad qualified for Euro 2000 but the previous coach - Victor Piţurcă - was sacked after a scandal which involved the team's best players, including Gheorghe Popescu and Gheorghe Hagi. At Euro 2000, Jenei took the team to the last eight, one of the team's best performances. During his second stint, the national team played 11 games.

In June 2000, he decided to retire from coaching. After that date, Jenei was president of FC Bihor and also worked for the Romanian Football Federation. He is regularly consulted by the Romanian media for his opinion ahead of important football games for Romanian clubs, especially Steaua, or the Romanian national team.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Giovanni Trapattoni		 European Cup Winning Coach
1985-86		 Succeeded by
Artur Jorge
Preceded by
Constantin Teaşcă		 Steaua Bucharest Coach
1974-1978		 Succeeded by
Gheorghe Constantin
Preceded by
Constantin Cernăianu		 Steaua Bucharest Coach
1982-1984		 Succeeded by
Florin Halagian
Preceded by
Florin Halagian		 Steaua Bucharest Coach
1984-1986		 Succeeded by
Anghel Iordănescu
Preceded by
Bujor Hălmageanu		 Steaua Bucharest Coach
1991		 Succeeded by
Anghel Iordănescu
Preceded by
Anghel Iordănescu		 Steaua Bucharest Coach
1993-1994		 Succeeded by
Dumitru Dumitriu
Preceded by
Mihai Stoichiţă		 Steaua Bucharest Coach
1998-1999		 Succeeded by
Victor Piţurcă
v • d • e
Steaua Golden Team
v • d • e
FC Steaua Bucureşti – Managers

Braun-Bogdan (1948) • Vâlcov (1948–49) • Ronnay (1950) • Gh. Popescu (1951–53) • Ronnay (1953–54) • Savu (1954–55) • Dobay (1956) • Savu (1958) • Niculescu (1958) • Gh. Popescu (1958–60) • Onisie (1960–61) • Mladin (1961) • Gh. Popescu (1962) • Onisie (1962–63) • Ola (1963–64) • Savu (1964–67) • Kovács (1967–70) • Onisie (1970–71) • Stănescu (1971–72) • Constantin (1972-73) • Teaşcă (1974–75) • Jenei (1975–78) • Constantin (1978–81) • Ionescu (1981) • Cernăianu (1981–83) • Jenei (1983–84) • Halagian (1984) • Jenei (1984–86) • Iordănescu (1986–90) • Ştefănescu (1990) • Hălmageanu (1991) • Jenei (1991) • Piţurcă (1992) • Iordănescu (1992–93) • Jenei (1993–94) • Dumitriu (1994–97) • Stoichiţă (1997–98) • Jenei (1998–2000) • Piţurcă (2000–02) • Olăroiu (2002) • Piţurcă (2002–04) • Zenga (2004–05) • Dumitriu (2005) • Protasov (2005) • Olăroiu (2006–07) • Hagi (2007) • Pedrazzini (2007) • Lăcătuş (2007–)
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Romania squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup
1 Lung • 2 Rednic • 3 Klein • 4 Andone • 5 Rotariu • 6 G. Popescu • 7 Lăcătuş • 8 Sabău • 9 Cămătaru • 10 Hagi • 11 Lupu • 12 Stelea • 13 A. Popescu • 14 Răducioiu • 15 Mateuţ • 16 Timofte • 17 Dumitrescu • 18 Balint • 19 Săndoi • 20 Muzsnay • 21 Lupescu • 22 Liliac • Coach: Jenei
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Romania squad - UEFA Euro 2000
1 Lobonţ • 2 Petrescu • 3 Ciobotariu • 4 Filipescu • 5 Gâlcă • 6 Popescu • 7 Mutu • 8 Munteanu • 9 Moldovan • 10 Hagi • 11 Ilie • 12 Stelea • 13 Chivu • 14 Petre • 15 Lupescu • 16 Roşu • 17 Belodedici • 18 Ganea • 19 Lincar • 20 Hîldan • 21 Prunea • 22 Contra • Coach: Jenei
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v • d • e
Romania national football team – Managers

Moraru (1922–23) • Rădulescu (1923) • Suciu (1923–24) • Moraru (1924–28) • Rădulescu (1928–34) • Uridil (1934) • Săvulescu (1934–35) • Rădulescu (1935–38) • Săvulescu (1938) • Iuga (1938–39) • Economu (1939–40) • Iuga (1940) • Economu (1941–42) • Lăpuşneanu (1942–43) • Vogl (1942–43) • Braun-Bogdan (1945) • Economu (1946) • Vâlcov (1947) • Vogl (1947) • Ronnay (1947) • Vogl (1947) • Vâlcov (1948) • Steinbach (1948) • Baratky (1948) • Vogl (1948) • Vâlcov (1949) • Vogl (1949) • Mihăilescu (1949) • Albu (1950) • V. Vâlcov (1950) • Vogl (1950–51) • Popescu I (1951–57) • Botescu (1958–60) • Popescu I (1961) • Teaşcă (1962) • Popescu I (1962) • Ploeşteanu (1962–64) • Stănescu (1964) • Ploeşteanu (1964) • Oană (1965–66) • Stănescu (1967) • Oană (1967) • Niculescu (1967) • Teaşcă (1967) • Niculescu (1967–70) • Stănescu (1971) • Niculescu (1971) • Stănescu (1971) • Niculescu (1971) • Stănescu (1971) • Niculescu (1971) • Ola (1972) • Niculescu (1972) • Ola (1972) • Niculescu (1972) • Ola (1972) • Stănescu (1973–75) • Drăguşin (1975) • Kovács (1976–79) • Halagian (1979) • Cernăianu (1979) • Kovács (1980) • Stănescu (1980–81) • Lucescu (1981–86) • Jenei (1986–90) • Constantin (1990) • Rădulescu (1990–92) • Dinu (1992–93) • Iordănescu (1993–98) • Piţurcă (1998–99) • Jenei (2000) • Bölöni (2000–01) • Hagi (2001) • Iordănescu (2002–04) • Piţurcă (2004–)