Marin Ion

Marin Ion
Personal information
Date of birth	25 March 1955 (age 69)
Place of birth	Ciorogârla, Romania
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1971–1972	Rapid București
1972–1973	Dinamo București
Senior career*
Years	Team
1973–1984	Dinamo București
1985–1986	Bihor Oradea
1986	Victoria București
1986–1987	Rapid București
Total
Managerial career
1989	Pandurii Târgu Jiu
1991–1992	Flacăra Moreni
1992–1996	Petrolul Ploieşti
1996–1997	Farul Constanța
1998–1999	Petrolul Ploieşti
2000–2001	Astra Ploieşti
2001–2002	Dinamo București
2002	Bihor Oradea
2003–2004	Farul Constanţa
2004–2005	Universitatea Cluj
2005–2006	Bihor Oradea
2006	Dinamo București
2006	Farul Constanța
2007	Farul Constanța (caretaker)
2007–2009	Farul Constanța
2009	Dinamo București
2009–2011	Al-Ettifaq
2011	Dubai Club
2012	Dinamo II București
2012–2014	Kuwait SC
2014–2015	Al Dhafra
2015	Dubai Club
2016	Zakho
2016–2017	Al-Mina'a
2018–2019	Qadsia
2021–	Romania WU19
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marin Ion (also known as Ion Marin; born 25 March 1955) is a Romanian football manager and former defender who currently manages Romania women's national under-19 football team.

Playing career

Marin started his football career as a defender with the youth team of Rapid Bucharest in 1971. A year later he joined Dinamo Bucharest, where he won 5 championship titles (1975, 1977, 1982, 1983 and 1984) and two Romanian Cups (1982, 1983). In the 1983–84 season, he reached with Dinamo the semi-finals of the European Cup, where they lost to eventual winners Liverpool.^[1]

He left the club after 13 years to join bitter rivals Rapid Bucharest, and eventually ending his career with the Bucharest-based club. He also had spells with Bihor Oradea and Victoria București. As a footballer he made over 300 appearances in Liga I.^[2]

Marin represented his country in the national U-21 and U-23 sides.

Managerial career

Marin has managed a number of teams in his native

Dinamo București in 2012. In July 2012, Marin was hired as manager by Kuwait SC and during his first season in charge, he won the Kuwaiti Premier League and AFC Cup.^[4]

In 2013, he was named

Kuwaiti Coach of the Year after winning his second AFC Cup title.^[5] In April 2014, Marin stepped down as head coach of Kuwait SC

.

On 30 September 2014, he became the head coach of the United Arab Emirates club

Al Dhafra.^[6]

In January 2015 he parted ways with the club.

In April 2015, he returned for a short spell at

Zakho FC replacing Ilie Stan

.

In 2016, Marin was hired by Iraqi club

Al-Mina'a SC

, but stepped down in April 2017.