Gabriel Gheorghe Caramarin (born 7 September 1977) is a Romanian football coach and former player who is current assistant manager of Jiangsu Suning. Career Caramarin was born in Măcin. He began his career at Sportul Studenţesc and made his debut in the Divizia A in 1994. After a short interlude at Gloria Bistrita, he rejoined Sportul in 1997, playing 16 matches for the Bucharest-based team. As Sportul relegated, he moved to FC Naţional, where he spent the next seven years of his career, making over 150 first league appearances. He joined Poli in the winter break of the 2004–05 season, together with Național coach Cosmin Olăroiu and teammates Gabriel Cânu, Gigel Coman and Marius Popa. Caramarin made his debut for the Romania national team in a friendly against Germany, and scored on his debut in a 5–1 win. He went on to make another three appearances for Romania. After retiring in 2009, he became the assistant coach of Unirea Urziceni and later Steaua București. He won the Cupa României with Steaua București in 2011 as caretaker head coach. Honours Manager Steaua București Cupa României: 2010–11 External links 1977 births Living people People from Măcin Romanian footballers Association football midfielders Romania international footballers FC Politehnica Timișoara players ACF Gloria Bistrița players FC Sportul Studențesc București players FC Progresul București players CS Otopeni players FC Steaua București assistant managers Romanian football managers Romanian expatriate football managers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate football managers in Cyprus