Olario Cosmin: The Best Coach in the History of Emirates Football?

Sultan Al Ali (Dubai)

Romanian Olario Cosmin, coach of Sharjah, has a history full of achievements, and his championships speak for themselves. His name has been associated with titles with all the clubs he trained, and he deserves, according to the numbers, to be the best coach in the history of Emirates football. The title of “Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup”, which Cosmin achieved with “The King” at the end of the season, is the key for the great coach to enter the list of the 10 most successful coaches in the world in the history of football at the club level in the higher grades.
Cosmin’s number of championships reached 22 titles with all the clubs he coached in 22 years, which puts him in tenth place, equal to Italian Giovanni Trapattoni, who achieved the same number with clubs in 32 years.
Cosmin achieved his 22 championships with 9 different clubs, Shabab Al-Ahly remains in the lead with 8 titles, Sharjah became second with “4 titles”, followed by the Emirati Al-Ain and Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia with “3 titles” for each team, and Romanian Steaua Bucharest with two titles, and finally Al-Sadd of Qatar and Jiangsu of China with a title. With each of them, and in ninth place at the level of coaches with 25 championships, comes the German Ottmar Hitzfeld, who collected it during 31 years, and in this season the Italian Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid coach, advanced in the list by reaching 26 championships during his 28 years in the world of coaching, to equal with The Scottish Jock Steen during the “25 years”, the Brazilian Scolari through the “41 years”, and the Portuguese Mourinho during the “23 years” with the same number of titles.
And in fourth place comes the Ukrainian veteran Lobanovskyi, who won 29 championships over 42 years of technical leadership, and thirdly, the rapidly rising Spaniard Pep Guardiola, who reached 33 championships in just 14 years, and he still has two championships ahead of him this season, and he is only surpassed by him. Mircea Lucescu “35 titles” in 42 years, and Sir Alex Ferguson, who alone tops the list with 49 championships in 39 years.
Record numbers
It is no secret that Cosmin is the coach who won the most championships in Emirates football, with 15 championships during 8 seasons, with a title for every about 20 matches with Emirati clubs, and Cosmin is the record holder in all competitions, as he is the one who won the league title more than 4 times, Including 3 in a row in an “extraordinary achievement”, and with two different teams, and more than one who won the Super Cup 5 times, including 3 in a row, and more than one who raised the League Cup “3 times”, and more than one who won the President’s Cup title twice in a row “equally with Eric Smith, Labola and Bellacci In addition, he has won the Best Coach of the Season Award from the Professional League 3 times.
And it remains that he won 8 championships with Shabab Al-Ahly only, which is the highest number for a coach with one club in the history of UAE clubs.
It is worth noting that Cosmin came out 18 times as champion or runner-up out of the 33 championships available to him for “full seasons” in his career in the UAE, which constitutes 55% of the total.
And speaking of his numbers in Emirates football, the number of Cosmin matches reached 339 matches, he won 195 times, drew 91 times, while he lost only 53 matches, and the percentage of points achieved reached 66.4%, and at the level of scoring, Cosmin clubs scored 628 goals, at a rate of 1.85 goals each. matches, conceding 318 goals at a rate less than one goal per match, and kept clean sheets in 122 games, equivalent to 36% of the total.
The trilogy.. a real achievement
History bears an exceptional case achieved by the “Roman Caesar”, which is the collection of 4 championships during one season “with the deferred”, and the real achievement is the “triple”, as Cosmin achieved 3 championships in one season on 3 different occasions “2 with Shabab Al-Ahly and 1 with Sharjah.” , The first with Shabab Al-Ahly season 2013-2014, when he won the league title, the League Cup and the Super Cup, and he also reached the final of the fourth tournament in the President’s Cup and won the “runner-up”, and achieved the treble for the second time with Shabab Al-Ahly in 2016-2017 in the Super Cup, League Cup and Super Cup The Emirati-Moroccan, and this season 2022-2023 achieved the treble for the third time with the President’s Cup, the Super Cup and the League Cup, and what Cosmin achieved represents 50% of the total historical triples that number 6 times “3 for Al-Ahly Youth, 1 Al-Ain and 1 Sharjah”.
3 of the 5 longest chains in history
Cosmin recorded his name in many distinguished numbers, including the series of not losing in all tournaments, where the name “Romanian” is found, in 3 out of the 5 longest series in history, as he managed not to lose in 23 consecutive matches with Shabab Al-Ahly 2015, and 23 matches with Al-Ain. 2012, and 20 matches with Shabab Al-Ahly in 2013, in addition to not losing in 16 consecutive matches with Sharjah in 2022, which is the record for the “king” in its history.
Cosmin has a great historical record of not losing at his stadium in Rashid Stadium with Shabab Al-Ahly, during 39 consecutive matches in all tournaments, in which he faced 22 different local and continental competitors, winning 27 times and drawing 12.
In the league specifically, Cosmin did not lose at home, except 11 times in 8 seasons, and one of them was due to a disciplinary decision, and he achieved a distinguished record by winning all his matches at home in the league with Al Ain in 2011-2012, where he won 12 matches out of 12, scoring 30 goals, and did not He received only 4 goals, and he also left with Shabab Al-Ahly in the 2015-2016 season without receiving any losses at home in all tournaments.