László Balint

For the Hungarian football player, see László Bálint.

György László "Gyuszi" Balint (born March 29, 1979) is a Romanian football manager and former player, who is currently in charge of Liga I club UTA Arad.

László Balint

Personal information
Full name	György László Balint
Date of birth	(1979-03-29) 29 March 1979 (age 43)
Place of birth	Brașov, Romania
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Full back, Centre back
Club information
Current team	UTA Arad (head coach)
Youth career
1988–1998	FC Brașov
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–2000	Rapid Energia Brașov
2000–2001	Romradiatoare Brașov
2001–2005	FC Brașov	65	(1)
2005–2006	CFR Cluj	13	(0)
2007	UTA Arad	29	(3)
2007–2009	Unirea Urziceni	19	(1)
2009	Diósgyőr	11	(0)
2010–2011	Unirea Tărlungeni	16	(2)
Total		153	(7)
Managerial career
2010–2014	Unirea Tărlungeni
2014–2015	FC Brașov (assistant)
2015–2016	Academica Clinceni
2017	ASA Târgu Mureș
2017–2018	Csíkszereda
2018–2019	Sportul Snagov
2019	Metaloglobus București
2019–2022	UTA Arad
2022	Universitatea Craiova
2022–	UTA Arad
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 November 2022

Career

Balint was born in Brașov, Romania, into an ethnic Hungarian family.^[1] In his early career as a footballer, he played for Rapid Energia Braşov, Romradiatoare Braşov, before joining FC Brașov in 2001, where he played for four seasons in Liga I. After the club's relegation he moved to CFR Cluj, under player-coach Dorinel Munteanu, reaching with his new club into the Intertoto Cup finals of 2005.^[2] The following season, he transferred to another Liga I club, UTA Arad. In 2007, he is brought by Dan Petrescu into the squad of Unirea Urziceni, a team that would gain its first championship title in history two years later. After that, followed a short spell at Diósgyőr in the Hungarian First Division, before signing as a player-manager for Unirea Tărlungeni in the Romanian Liga III, a club near his hometown of Braşov. Under his management, Unirea Tărlungeni promoted for the first time in history in the Romanian Liga II. After coaching Unirea Tărlungeni for a year in Romanian Liga II în January 2015 was employed by FC Brașov as assistant coach for the second part of the 2014-2015 Romanian Liga I, followed by an employment as head-coach at Academica Clinceni in the Romanian Liga II. In June 2017, he was appointed as head-coach at Târgu Mureș, team that has relegated from the Romanian Liga I to the Romanian Liga II, where he spent only 3 months, resigning after the 6th match in the league, when ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș was sitting 3rd in the table. After his short spell at Târgu Mureș he took over the management of FK Miercurea Ciuc, finishing second at the end of the 2017–2018 season of Liga III, highest ranking in the club history. In June 2018, he accepted the offer from Sportul Snagov, team that finished 10th in the 2017–2018 season of Liga II, and under his command, the team becomes the biggest surprise of the competition, finishing the first part of the 2018–2019 season at the top of the table. Because of the financial problems that Sportul Snagov is struggling with, Gyuszi decides to leave the club in January 2019, along with many important players. Currently, he is in charge of UTA Arad. He arrived at Arad in 2019, with great ambitions and a long-term project. Under his command, UTA won the Liga II at the end of 2019/2020 season and now is playing in Liga I.

Honours

Player

CFR Cluj

• UEFA Intertoto Cup runner-up: 2005^[2]

Unirea Urziceni

• Cupa României runner-up: 2007–08^[3]

Manager

Unirea Tărlungeni

• Liga III: 2012–13^[4]

UTA Arad

• Liga II: 2019–20^[4]

Career statistics

Managerial

As of 5 March 2023

Managerial record by club and tenure

Team	Country	From	To	Record
				M	W	D	L	Win %
Unirea Tărlungeni		1 January 2010	25 June 2014	142	72	28	42	050.70
Academica Clinceni		1 July 2015	15 March 2016	22	12	3	7	054.55
ASA Târgu Mureș		15 June 2017	5 September 2017	6	4	1	1	066.67
Csíkszereda		10 September 2017	30 June 2018	26	19	5	2	073.08
Sportul Snagov		1 July 2018	17 January 2019	23	15	4	4	065.22
Metaloglobus București		18 January 2019	1 June 2019	17	8	4	5	047.06
UTA Arad		1 July 2019	31 January 2022	95	37	28	30	038.95
Universitatea Craiova		13 June 2022	9 August 2022	7	2	3	2	028.57
UTA Arad		1 November 2022	Present	15	4	5	6	026.67
Total				353	173	81	99	049.01

References

1. "S-au desprins pe final".
2. "Nu-i totul pierdut" [Not all is lost] (in Romanian). Gds.ro. 11 August 2005. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
3. "Romanian Cup - Season 2007 - 2008". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
4. László Balint at Soccerway

External links

• László Balint at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)