“His reign succeeded, both as a sportsman and as a technician, to identify with the recent history of this club”

Article by Tudor Belivaca – published on Thursday, June 19, 2025, 18:45 / Updated Thursday, June 19, 2025 6:45
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău (57 years old), the coach of the University of Cluj, was proposed as a citizen of honor of Cluj County after the performances he succeeded with “Red Straits”. The Cluj County Council will debate in the next meeting a draft decision on this aspect.
The “students” qualified in the preliminaries of Conference League with Sabău at the helm, after a long period of absence from the European Cups, more precisely 53 years.

Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, proposed as a citizen of honor of Cluj County after the performance with the University
Alin Tișe, the president of the Cluj County Council, spoke about this draft decision.
“For Cluj County and for Cluj football, granting this distinction is a small sign of gratitude for everything Mr. Sabău has done in the last 40 years, both as a sportsman and in the coach. Beyond his important role in the national football team, who managed, through the fantastic victory, to the 1989 years, Football, the one in Italy, I can't help but evoke the performances obtained at his soul club, U Cluj.
His reign managed, both as a sportsman and as a technician, to identify with the recent history of this club, all culminating in this competitive year, when he managed to take the team to a Romanian Cup final, to qualify for the first time in history in the play-off and, more, to bring U Cluj, after 53 years, according to Cluj, according to Cluj,
The personality of the current coach of the Cluj Football team University Cluj and a member of the “Golden Generation” of the national football team of Romania – Mr. Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, one of the artisans of the historical victory – in 1989, a victory for the first time, in almost 20 years, in the summer of 1990, to the summer of 1990, to Romania, to Romania, to Romania, and to the first time. Dinamo and Rapid, holder of the Netherlands Cup with Feyenoord Rotterdam, who by the results obtained in his career as a sportsman and coach, managed to promote Cluj in national and international level, activating a true ambassador of Cluj and Cluj sport.
-Fragment from the project approval report, according to the source cited




