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Romulus Gabor (born 14 October 1961) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a winger and as a forward.
After 13 seasons spent with Corvinul, he was transferred at Hungarian club, Diósgyőr where he was teammate with compatriot and former Corvinul colleague, Ioan Petcu. He made his Nemzeti Bajnokság I debut on 15 September 1991 under coach Ladislau Vlad in a 2–1 home loss to Vasas SC. Gabor scored his first and only goal for them on 26 October when he closed the score in a 2–1 victory over Győr. He gained a total of 13 matches with one goal scored in the Hungarian league, his last appearance taking place on 20 June 1992 in a 2–0 home loss to Ferencváros.
Afterwards he returned to play for Corvinul in Divizia B, then he went for a half of season to play for Universitatea Cluj where he made his last Divizia A appearance on 10 November 1993 in a 3–2 win against Gloria Bistrița. In the following years he played for Unirea Alba Iulia, Corvinul and Inter Sibiu in Divizia B, ending his career in 1997 at Liga III club, Viitorul Oradea. Gabor has a total of 304 Divizia A appearances with 64 goals scored.
He played 35 games and scored two goals for Romania, all under the guidance of coach Mircea Lucescu, being nicknamed "Lucescu's child", making his debut on 11 November 1981 in a 0–0 with Switzerland at the 1982 World Cup qualifiers. He played six games at the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers. He was used by Lucescu in two games at the Euro 1984 final tournament, in the first one which was a 1–1 against Spain he played as a starter until the 76th minute when he was replaced by Gheorghe Hagi and in the second he came as a substitute and replaced Mircea Irimescu in the 59th minute of the 1–0 loss to Portugal as Romania did not get past the group stage.
For representing his country at Euro 1984, Gabor was decorated by President of Romania Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.
International career
Gabor was part of Romania's under-20 squad at the 1981 World Youth Championship from Australia, appearing in six games in which he scored two goals in two 1–0 wins over Italy and England, helping the team finish the tournament on the third position, winning the bronze medal, also winning the Golden Ball award for the best player of the tournament and the Bronze shoe for the third top-scorer of the competition.
He scored his first goal for the national team from a free kick in a friendly against Turkey. Afterwards, Gabor played two games at the 1986 World Cup qualifiers, scored his second goal in a friendly against Egypt and made his last appearance for The Tricolours on 23 April 1986 in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 victory against Soviet Union.
International goals
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Managerial career
After he ended his career, Gabor worked as a coach at clubs like Corvinul Hunedoara and Mureșul Deva. In the 2007–08 season he was the assistant of Ioan Andone at CFR Cluj as the club won The Double. His last coaching spell took place in 2019 at Cetate Deva.
Honours
Corvinul Hunedoara
Individual
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