Florin Bratu
Florin Bratu Daniel ( born 1 February 1980 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian football player. He played a total of 201 games in the Romanian Liga 1, the Turkish Süper Lig, the French Ligue 1 and the Bulgarian A Grupa. In 2003 he won the Romanian championship with Rapid Bucharest.
Career
Bratu began his career at Tractorul Brasov in Divizia B, where he was able to achieve eight goals in his first season. In 2001, he joined the Romanian giants Rapid Bucharest, where he was able to contribute in the season 2002/ 03 eleven goals to win the championship. In the summer of 2003, he moved for a transfer fee of 2.75 million U.S. dollars to Turkey for Galatasaray. The 2003/04 season was disappointing for sporty Galatasaray and ended with a sixth place.
After only a year left Bratu Istanbul and moved to FC Nantes in the French Ligue 1, where he could not prevail, and came into the season 2004 /05 only 13 missions. He was subsequently borrowed for the 2005/06 season at Dinamo Bucharest and for the 2006/07 season to the team FC Valenciennes.
Since the FC Nantes was relegated in 2007 in the Ligue 2, Bratu left the club and moved to the reigning Romanian champions Dinamo Bucharest. Although he found his scoring prowess in the 2007/ 08 season with 14 goals and was one of the best strikers in the league 1, Dinamo finished only fourth place from. In the following season he started with a good hit rate of seven goals in the first seven missions, came to the eleventh Gameday However, due to an injury no longer used. It was not until he second half of 2009/10 he got his club back for a few games.
In July 2010, Bratu Dinamo left and he signed with Litex Lovech in the Bulgarian A Grupa, but returned early as the winter break to Gaz Metan Medias in the league returns 1. In summer 2012 he joined newly promoted Gloria Bistrita. There, he finished at the end of his active career.
National
Florin Bratu played 13 games for the Romanian national football team and was able to achieve two goals. His debut celebrated on 12 February 2003 when he came off the bench in the friendly against Slovakia in injury time for Adrian Mutu. He could coach Anghel Iordănescu convince the sat again in the following European Championship qualifying matches for him. In the friendly against Lithuania on 30 April 2003 he stood for the first time in the starting lineup and was able to achieve his first goal with the winning goal. In 2004, he was given less often and eventually no longer called.
On 17 October 2007 Bratu came in the European Championship qualifier against Luxembourg after three years of absence to his comeback in the national team. In autumn 2008, followed by three more games before he was stopped by an injury, so that its use in the World Cup qualifier against the Faroe Islands was his last until the present day international match.
Achievements
- Romanian champions: 2003
- Romanian runner-up: 2006