Daniel Prodan
Daniel Claudiu " Didi " Prodan ( born March 23, 1972 in Satu Mare, Satu Mare County ) is a former Romanian football player and current sports director. The center-back played a total of 183 games in the Romanian Divizia A and the Spanish Primera División. As an international, he participated in the World Cup in 1994 and the European Football Championship 1996.
Career
Prodan began his career in 1984 in his hometown at Css Satu Mare. In 1988 he moved to the capital to AS Victoria Bucharest, returned in 1990 after the forced dissolution of the association but returned and joined Olimpia Satu Mare. In 1991 Prodan in the squad for the first team, which played into the Divizia B. Soon after, the Romanian giants Steaua Bucharest became aware of him, who took him in the fall of 1992 under contract. On 8 November 1992 he got his first race for Steaua in the highest Romanian league, the Divizia A.
Prodan already welled up in his first season first-team regular and won the championship with Steaua. It should further three and a Cup victory followed before he moved abroad during the winter break of the 1996/97 season and joined Atlético Madrid. While he regularly came to Madrid in the second half for use, he played less often in the coming season. In summer 1998, he moved to the winter break to Glasgow Rangers in the Scottish Premier League.
His time in Scotland was marked by a lengthy knee injury, so that Prodan aground for the Rangers even once. In the spring of 2000 he returned to Romania, where he first tried his comeback at Steaua Bucharest. Only in the 2000/ 01 season he was at his new club Rocar Bucharest increasingly used and also managed to return to the national team.
After the descent of Rocar Prodan moved to league rivals FC Naţional Bucharest, where he hardly used in the first round of the 2001/02 season and in the second round at Messina Calcio. After another season at Naţional he ended his career in the summer of 2003. Since November 22, 2005 Prodan is sports director of the Romanian national team.
National
Daniel Prodan played 54 games for the Romanian national football team, scoring one goal. He made his debut on 2 June 1993 against the selection of the Czechs and Slovaks in the World Cup qualifiers in 1994. A year later he was in the finals in the U.S. even in the squad and came in all five games of Romania for use. Two years later at the European Championships in England belonged to Prodan Romanian squad and has been used in two games.
Due to a knee injury had Prodan his international career in 1998, finish first, before on 15 November 2000 against Yugoslavia succeeded his comeback. His last international game he played on 2 June 2001 as part of the qualification for the World Cup 2002 against Hungary.
Achievements
- World Cup participants: 1994
- EM participants: 1996
- Romanian champion: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
- Romanian Cup Winners: 1996
Awards
On 25 March 2008 Prodan was " sporty Meritul " III by Romanian President Traian Basescu for the achievements in the national team with the Order of Merit. Class excellent.
Others
Prodan is married and has a daughter and a son.