Career
Most recently, he served as National Technical Director of Romania. Mihail managed top flights teams and also held technical director positions in his native Romania and across the Middle East In the course of his career he always had en eye for future talent. Mihail played professionally in Romania for 17 years, beginning his career as a right winger with his home town club Football Club Brasov, before moving onto play as a right full back for the top flight side Sportul Studentesc.
He made his international debut on 23 March 1982 against Belgium.
After his playing career ended, Mihail turned to coaching and began his career as manager of his former club Sportul Studentesc. He then managed other two Romanian top flight teams, Football Club Brasov and Football Club Bacau.
In October 1999 Mihail became the head of technical department at Steaua Bucharest, Romania"s most successful club, with responsibility for first team, player recruitment, scouting and academy. In June 2004, Mihail returned home to Romania to complete his Union of European Football Associations Pro Licence.
During that time he was employed with the Romanian Football Federation as youth technical adviser and helped to set up the national youth program
He also had a short spell as manager of the Romanian side Football Club Sibiu. In June 2006, Mihail moved again to the Middle East and managed First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jaish in Syria and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jahra in Kuwait. He also worked as academy director at First Rate (at Lloyd's) Wahda Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. In between, Mihail had his third spell as manager of the Romanian side Sportul Studentesc.
In August 2011, Mihail was appointed as National Technical Director of Romania.
The position was new in the Romanian Football Federation at the time. lieutenant included responsibility for the overall development and direction of football in Romania.
Mihail"s main task was to restore the competitiveness of Romanian football. Priority was given to improve the quality of youth coaches, the performance of the national youth teams and to develop strong partnerships with the Royal Spanish Football Federation to promote new technical standards across the country.
In just over three years the new performance strategy laid a solid foundation for the future of Romanian football.
That included reforming its coach education system, revamping the format of the youth leagues and the success of the national youth teams program, both boys and girls, among other healthy developments. Mihail left his role as National Technical Director of Romania by mutual consent in February 2014, just before the election of a new President for the Romanian Football Federation.
