Ionel Ganea
Ioan Viorel " Vio " " Ganezul " Ganea ( born August 10, 1973 in Fagaras, Brasov county ) is a Romanian football player and coach.
Sports career
Ganea came in 1994 at FC Braşov his first stakes in the highest Romanian league. After his departure in 1996, he played in Romania until the end of the 1998/99 season yet for the three club Universitatea Craiova, Gloria Bistrita and Rapid Bucharest. The latter club he led from January 1999 with a total of eleven goals to win the championship and finished the entire season with 28 goals from - so he was top scorer in the first Romanian league.
He then moved up in the German Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart, but where he never could carry permanently in the starting line- up. Nevertheless, he was known as " Joker" successfully under then- coach Felix Magath, especially in the 2002/03 season and was instrumental in winning the runner-up, and thus the direct qualification for the Champions League. Notwithstanding the prospect of being able to play in the " top tier " of European club football, he moved to Turkish club Bursaspor free transfer, where he former team-mate Gheorghe Hagi had lured as a coach. His involvement in Turkey was only short-lived and so he moved after half a year to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League.
Despite three goals against the eventual champions Arsenal FC, to Leeds United and Newcastle United Ganea suffered with the " Wolves " the descent into second-rate Football League Championship. In the following two years he had to struggle with injury problems and after the end of the contract period, he returned in July 2006 back to Romania. He signed with Dinamo Bucharest one-year contract, but changed after half a year to rivals Rapid Bucharest, where his annual salary in the amount of 350,000 euros per season and a term was offered until the end of the season 2008 /09. Despite this view of the millions of merit, he moved back in June of 2007 for FCU Politehnica Timişoara.
In August 2007, Ganea was led away by four policemen at the game of his club in Timisoara against Rapid Bucharest from the square. He had choked the assistant referee after he displayed a foul the striker. The Romanian Association Ganea then imprisoned for 22 games and finished him with a penalty equivalent to € 4,400. In fact, so his career was ended; his last club game he graduated on May 7, 2008.
In summer 2009, he joined the corporate office of Dinamo Bucharest as sports director. After the dismissal of the head coach Dario Bonetti Ganea was appointed assistant coach of Cornel Ţălnar on November 6, 2009. In the summer of 2010, he first took over from Costel Orac as coach of the second team of Dinamo Bucharest, which was relegated to the Liga III, and was in the fall of 2010 coach of the youth team of the club with which he for the semifinals of the Romanian Championship qualifying.
In February 2011, he was persuaded by those in charge of the fourth division FC Lindab Ştefăneşti them to strengthen the club in the second half of the 2010/11 season as a player. He made his debut on March 13, 2011 at the home game against Inter Voluntari, scoring three of the 15 goals his team. During the second half Ganea took over as coach and managed with FC Lindab Ştefăneşti the end of season promotion to the Liga III His contract with Dinamo he dissolved on 1 July 2011.
Romanian national
Ganea celebrated on 3 March 1999 against Estonia made its debut in the Romanian national team and scored both goals in the 2-0 victory. A career highlight, he experienced in Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands, as he threw the English selection team converted a penalty kick in the 90th minute of the tournament and brought Romania into the quarterfinals. Overall Ganea shot between 1999 and 2006 in 45 international matches 19 goals.
Achievements
- Romanian champion: 1999, 2007
- Romanian Cup Winners: 2007
- Romanian Supercup winner: 1999
- German Vice Champion 2003
- UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2000, 2002