Full name Daniel Ionuț Isăilă Playing position Team Apps Weight 65 kg | Place of birth Brașov, Romania Years Team Height 1.85 m Position Defender | |
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Date of birth (1972-06-29) 29 June 1972 (age 44) Similar Marius Șumudică, Denis Alibec, Dan Alexa | ||
Daniel Isăilă (born 29 June 1972 in Brașov) is a Romanian retired football player and a current manager. His football career was based on his time playing for FC Brașov after his debut at the local hometown team of Tractorul Brașov.
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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 Group for the first time, winning against Olympic Lyon in a fantastic 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.
