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Gheorghe Mihali
Personal information
Date of birth	9 December 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth	Baia Borșa, Romania
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Youth career
1978–1981	Minerul Borșa
1981–1984	Luceafărul București
Senior career*
Years	Team
1984–1989	Olt Scornicești
1990–1991	Inter Sibiu
1991–1995	Dinamo București
1995–1998	Guingamp
1999–2001	Dinamo București
Total
International career
1986–1987	Romania U21
1991–1996	Romania
Managerial career
2002	Dinamo București (youth)
2002	Romania U21 (assistant)
2005–2006	CFR Cluj (assistant)
2006–2007	Argeș Pitești (assistant)
2007–2008	CSM Focșani
2008	Universitatea Cluj (assistant)
2008–2009	Universitatea Cluj
2009	Dinamo II București (assistant)
2009	Dinamo II București
2009	Dinamo București (assistant)
2009–2011	Al-Ettifaq (assistant)
2011	Dubai CSC (assistant)
2012	CSMS Iași (assistant)
2012	Dinamo București (assistant)
2012–2013	Mordovia Saransk (assistant)
2013	Kuban Krasnodar (assistant)
2016–2017	Zakho (assistant)
2017	UTA Arad (assistant)
2017	Mioveni
2019	Balotești
2019–2020	CS Rucăr
2020	Dinamo București (assistant)
2020–2022	Dinamo București U19
2022–2023	Dunărea Călărași
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gheorghe "Gică" Mihali (born 9 December 1965) is a Romanian football manager and former player.

Career

He debuted in Divizia A with Olt Scornicești in 1984. He went to Dinamo București in 1991, and helped Dinamo win the title in his debut season. In 1995, he was bought by French club En Avant Guingamp where he spent almost four seasons. Following the relegation of Guingamp in 1998, Mihali eventually returned to Dinamo București where he lifted the Romanian cup titles in 2000 and 2001 before retiring as a player.

Mihali made his debut for the national team in 1991 against Egypt, and earned 31 caps in total. He was in the squad for the 1994 World Cup and Euro 1996.

He turned into coaching a year after his retirement, he managed to coach a youth group of Dinamo București and in 2002, he was part of Ilie Dumitrescu's team at the helm of Romania U-21.

In 2005, Mihali became assistant coach to Dorinel Munteanu, at CFR Cluj, and in 2006 he followed his former teammate at FC Argeș, where Munteanu was named head coach.

His first full job came in 2007, when Mihali was installed as head coach to CSM Focșani.^[1] After 15 games and only 13 points won, Mihali quit the Liga II squad.^[2] He didn't stay without a contract for too long. In October 2008 he was named head coach at Universitatea Cluj, where he took over from Dorinel Munteanu, who left for Steaua București.^[3] He was sacked in April 2009, because he was questioned by the fans.^[4]

Mihali then returned to assistant job, helping Marin Ion in the Arab countries, where the latter managed Ettifaq FC and Dubai CSC. In 2012, Mihali came back to Romania, where he became assistant coach to CSMS Iași, under the spell of Ionuț Popa and Liviu Ciobotariu.

In November 2012, he returned to Dinamo, after 11 years. He was named assistant coach to Dorinel Munteanu.^[5]