- Dušan Uhrin, Jr.
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Dušan Uhrin, Jr. Personal information Date of birth 11 October 1967 Place of birth Prague, Czechoslovakia Youth career 1974–1975 Meteor Praha 1975–1984 Bohemians Praha Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1984–1986 Meteor Praha - (-) 1986–1988 Montáže Praha - (-) 1988–1990 FC Jílové - (-) 1990–1992 RH Strašnice - (-) Teams managed 2002–2004 Bohemians Praha 2004–2007 Mladá Boleslav 2007–2008 Politehnica Timişoara 2008–2009 CFR Cluj 2009–2010 Mladá Boleslav 2010 AEL Limassol 2010–2011 FC Timişoara * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Dušan Uhrin junior (born 11 October 1967 in Prague) is a Czech ex-football player. He is the son of Dušan Uhrin senior who is also a football manager.
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Playing career
Dušan Uhrin Jr. played in his youth at Meteor Prague and Bohemians Prague. He started his senior career at Meteor in 1984, before moving to Montáže Prag and subsequently FC Jílové. While at the latter, Uhrin suffered a severe injury and decided to concentrate on a coaching career. Between 1990 and 1991 he stepped up into the role of player/manager at RH Strašnice, but afterwards only kept on playing on occasion for FC Jílové until 1998, when he retired altogether from his playing career.
Managing career
Although Uhrin first managed RH Strašnice in 1990, his first real major team in 2000, when he co-coached Sparta Prague. He got a longer managing stint at Bohemians Prague between 2002 and 2004, but Uhrin came into the limelight while at FK Mladá Boleslav, whom he took over in 2004. After saving the team from relegation in his first season, he managed the amazing feat of becoming vice-champions of the Czech first league in the 2005-2006 season. Mladá Boleslav impressed in Europe the following season, not least because of defeating Olympique de Marseille in the first round of the UEFA Cup, and one of the people who took notice of Uhrin's achievements was Timişoara boss Marian Iancu. Despite finishing third with Mladá Boleslav that year, Dušan Uhrin Jr. accepted to take over Politehnica Timişoara, stating that it was important for him to find a new challenge.
Politehnica Timişoara and return
In the first year at Timisoara, Uhrin achieved qualification to the UEFA Cup, thereby marking the first European presence of a Timisoara team since 1992. Although his achievements in the first half of the 2008/2009 season were even more impressive, with the club being placed third despite a six point penalty imposed by FIFA, the FC Timisoara owner, Marian Iancu, decided to sack Dušan Uhrin Jr. in early December, for undisclosed reasons. (Marian Iancu is known though to often do such uninspired moves, also sacking before the end of the season - the best in the team's history - the follower of Dušan Uhrin Jr. as team coach and having done something similarly a few years before with Romanian coach Cosmin Olăroiu). On 13 December 2010 Dušan was announced the new Politehnica Timişoara's Head Coach signed for one year with option to renewal for two years. After his come back he spoke for official site : ""I hope the stadium will be full again! But, above all, I promise to our fans that we play good attacking football. We hope to bring out the best place possible. I want to have the same relationship with the fans from the last time, because Poli's supporters were wonderful. I'm glad that we have again the colors that he had a team since I started coaching in 2007. These are Poli's true colors!".[1] Uhrin made an impressive re-debut by winning all of the first four matches. But after that series of victories Poli unluckily gained only one victory in the following six games. Although Poli finished second at the end of the 2010–11 Liga I season and was supposed to play in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, it was relegated to the Liga II because of accumulated debt and Dušan Uhrin left Poli in 27 July 2011.[2]
Statistics
As a Manager
- As of 21 May 2011
Team Nat From To Record G W D L GF GA Win % Bohemians Prague 
25 June 2002 18 October 2004 66 16 18 32 76 58 24.24 Mladá Boleslav 19 October 2004 28 May 2007 81 38 24 19 124 98 46.91 Politehnica Timişoara 
11 June 2007 2 December 2008 41 21 11 9 66 46 51.22 CFR Cluj 1 March 2009 7 April 2009 6 4 1 1 7 4 66.67 Mladá Boleslav 1 July 2009 26 December 2009 16 7 4 5 28 23 43.75 AEL Limassol 
1 January 2010 21 September 2010 20 11 4 5 36 25 55.00 Politehnica Timişoara 13 December 2010 27 July 2011 16 9 5 2 33 17 56.25 Total 256 106 67 73 370 271 41.41 Notes
- ^ "Dušan Uhrin return to Poli". Politehnica Timişoara. http://www.poli.tm.ro/fcpt/stire.php?id=62. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ^ "Dušan Uhrin resigned from Poli". Politehnica Timişoara. http://www.poli.tm.ro/fcpt/stire.php?id=389. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
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- Living people
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