Cristian Efros

Cristian Efros (born 6 January 1992) is a Moldovan football manager and former player. Since June 2014 he is the head coach of Moldavian football club Speranța Nisporeni.

Cristian Efros

Personal information
Full name	Cristian Efros
Date of birth	(1992-01-06) 6 January 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth	Chișinău, Moldova
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	CSF Speranța
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2007	Dacia Chișinău -2
2007–2008	FC Beșiktaș Chișinău
2008–2009	ACN Siena 1904
2009–2010	Iraklis Thessaloniki
2010–2011	FC Snagov
2011–2012	Ulysses F.C.
2012–2013	FC Costuleni
2013–2014	FC Rapid Ghidighici
Managerial career
2014–	CSF Speranța
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Cristian Efros is the son of Petru Efros, a Moldovan football manager, FIFA players' agent and former footballer.^[1]

Playing career

Efros played for youth teams of Agro Chisinau, Zimbru Chisinau and Dacia Buiucani. His First Senior Appearance was at 14 years old for Dacia-2 in 2nd League of Moldova. Furtherly continuing his career for an additional season in the same league for Beșiktaș Chișinău.

At age of 15 he was selected for the Moldova National Squad of U-17 for European Qualifiers. He was linked with interests from clubs as Benfica, Fiorentina, AC Milan, Beşiktaş Istanbul, FC Astana.^[2]

At the age of 16 he started his journey outside of Moldova by signing with Italian Seria A club AC Siena, but failing to receive the residence permit. For next season as a consequence he joined Iraklis Thessaloniki from Greek Superleague, but repeatedly an residence permit was not granted. Therefore he was not available for the clubs official appearances. At age of 18 he joined FC Snagov, and made his first EU debut from starting 11 against Victoria Branesti, with a 3-0 win, however he had received a severe injury and missed the rest of the period,^[3] at his comeback vs Delta Dulcea, he got injured again and substituted early in the game.

He soon joined Ulysses Yerevan from Armenia, FC Costuleni and FC Rapid, but the never-ending injury stints didn't let him continue his football player career at professional level and he lastly moved to CSF Speranta that were in the third Tier of Moldova, as he mixed his football player career with coaching career to retire from his player career and to start his coaching journey at Speranta at just 22 years old.^[4]

Managerial career

As a coach Efros started his career with CSF Speranța in the role of the head coach, from second tier of Moldova Football League, at 22 years old.^[5] He promoted the team to the Top Tier in his first season. Debuting in the Top Tier with a winning streak from the start of the season with surprising win against multiple champion FC Sheriff and achieving multiple club records, such as Club historical qualification to Europa League qualifiers,^[6] most unbeaten run in club history with ten games,^[7] the team with most goalless draws between 2015 and 2019 in Europe,^[8] while being the youngest professional coach in Moldova and probably in the world.^[9]

References

1. "Antrenor la o echipă din Divizia A la numai 22 de ani". primelestiri.md (in Romanian). Retrieved 31 October 2020.
2. "Кто к нам едет-4 - Футбол". Sports.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 31 October 2020.
3. "Efros jr a debutat în campionatul României". VOXPUBLIKA (in Romanian). 23 October 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
4. "Cristian Efros: Ca și antrenor visez ca echipa mea sa învingă meci după meci - Люди - Журнал - allfun.md". 7 September 2015. from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
5. "Antrenor la o echipă din Divizia A la numai 22 de ani". primelestiri.md (in Romanian). Retrieved 31 October 2020.
6. "Football Association of Moldova official Facebook page". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
7. "Speranta Official Facebook Page". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
8. "Weekly Post 295". football-observatory.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
9. "Moldova - CSF Speranţa Nisporeni - Results and fixtures - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.

External links

• Cristian Efros coach profile at Soccerway