Csaba László

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Csaba László
Personal information
Full name Csaba László
Date of birth February 13, 1964 (1964-02-13) (age 44)
Place of birth   
Club information
Current club Uganda
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
BVSC Budapest    
Teams managed
2004-2005
2006
Ferencvárosi TC
FC Sopron
Uganda

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Csaba László (born 13 February 1964 in Odorhei, Romania) is a former Hungarian football player and now caoch.

He is married with two children. He studied in the Public Secondary School in Odorhei (Romania) and in the University extension in Hoghia (Romania). He holds a UEFA coaching certificate.

Player Career Selection player Romania Teams: - Progresul Odorei - Unirea Cristur - Volan Budapest - Spvg Oberaussen - Tus Grevenbroich - Ford Niehl Köln

[edit] Coaching career

László was the coach of Ferencvárosi TC[1] and FC Sopron [2]

- BW Kerpen - Tus Grevenbroich - Borussia Mönchengladbach (B-Junioren) - Head National Trainer from Hungary; working together as a head coach with Lothar Matthäus since 15.01.2004 - He worked simultaneously as a head coach of Ferencvaros Budapest since 01.06.2004 - Currently Laszlo Csaba is the Head Coach of Uganda national team since 2006

- World Cup Qualifications games with the Hungarian National team for the World Cup in Germany 2006.

- 2004/ 2005 Qualifications phase for the Champions-League with Ferencvaros Budapest (The only qualification of a Hungarian team in the last 11 years)

- 2004/ 2005 UEFA-Cup Games participation at the group phase with Ferencvaros Budapest (The only qualification of a Hungarian team in the last 11 years)

- Hungarian Trainer of the year in 2005.

- His appointment as a Head Coach of Uganda national team was an incredible boost for this East African nation. Since his arrival, it has been the best run in 24 years. Uganda missed qualification for the African Cup Nation in Ghana 2008 for one goal difference in favour of Sudan.

- Under Laszlo Csaba's guidance, Uganda jumped from 167th to 91st in the FIFA ranking.

- Uganda managed to beat arch-rival Nigeria for the first time in their football’s history.

- Thanks to his charisma and hard work, FUFA (Uganda FA) signed a 1 million USD sponsorship deal with African mobile telephone giants MTN.

- Due to Laszlo Csaba’s involvement and for the results achieved with the national team, African giants Satellite Television channel GTV signed a 5 years contract to broadcast the league games of the Uganda football league.

- Lazslo Csaba’s is the only foreign trainer who has been able to remain as a national team coach of a African side in the last two years.

- Csaba has become a cult hero in Uganda. He has been nicknamed “The Miracle Man” by the African press.

- Laszlo Csaba has detected players of the calibre of Marcell Jansen, Eugen Palanski and Tobias Levels during his spell at Borussia Mönchengladbach. He also has helped the development of Ugandan players Noah Kasule (FC Banants), David Obua (Kaizer Chiefs – South Africa) and Ibrahim Sekayga (Red Bull Salzburg) during his spell as Uganda national trainer.

- On December 2007, the Ugandan national team finished runners up in the CECAFA Cup.

Additional information: - He Speaks 4 languages, German, English, Hungarian and Romanian