Florin Prunea
Florin Prunea ( born August 8, 1968 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian football goalkeeper and current sports director. He played a total of 374 games in Divizia A, Süper Lig, the A Grupa and the Alpha Ethniki. He also took part in the Football World Cup 1994, the UEFA European Football Championship in 1996, the Football World Cup in 1998 and the European Football Championship 2000.
Career
Although Florin Prunea spent his childhood near the Ghencea stadium, he did not begin his career at Steaua Bucharest but at Dinamo Bucharest. There, he played on 31 May 1986 in the 0-5 home defeat against Sportul Studenţesc his first game in Divizia A. Because he did not it past at Dinamo on the status of the substitute goalkeeper, he moved in 1988 to league rivals Universitatea Cluj. There he made his breakthrough. In 1990 arose for Prunea the possibility to switch to a Romanian giants, Universitatea Craiova. With this he won the 1991 league and cup. Then it took Dinamo Bucharest back in 1992. Prunea was Dinamo goalkeeper and remained until the winter break 1997/98 true, as he moved to Universitatea Cluj again.
This change was the turning point of his career dar. Although Prunea continued to play in the highest soccer league, but both Universitatea Cluj as well as its subsequent stations Erzurumspor, Astra Ploieşti and Universitatea Craiova were in the relegation battle. In 2000 Prunea got again offers from top teams. First, it took Litex Lovech in Bulgaria, but Prunea left the club after just two months after he had been assumed to have benefited financially from the home defeat on August 13, 2000, compared Levski Sofia.
In the fall he moved a third time to Dinamo Bucharest. Here he was indeed Romanian champion, but lost his place so that he again sought his luck with teams from the lower midfield. According to other stations FCM Bacau, Brasov and FC Skoda Xanthi he signed in August 2005 last player contract with FC Naţional Bucharest. In the Cup match against Otelul Galati Prunea sat on 7 December 2005 for the last time on the bench, and then finished at the age of 37 years of his career.
National
Prunea denied a total of 60 caps for the Romanian national football team. His first international game, he completed on December 5, 1990 against San Marino. From 1993 to 1994, Prunea first choice of the Romanian national team coach Anghel Iordănescu, so that he stood with three matches of the Football World Cup 1994 in the USA in the goal. After the tournament, he was ousted by his opponent Bogdan Stelea so that it only sporadically was used and at the European Football Championship in England in 1996, the Football World Cup 1998 in France and the European Football Championship 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands only was still as a substitute goalkeeper there.
Achievements
- World Cup qualifiers: 1994, 1998
- European Football Cup: 1996, 2000
- Romanian champion: 1991, 2002
- Romanian Cup Winners: 1991, 2001
Others
Prunea was on 10 January 1993 which by the Romanian Football Federation by a suspension of nine months because he had led a group of about 100 players who had protested against delay in salary payments and demanded the resignation of President Dumitru Dragomir Association. On 28 January 1993, the ban was lifted on the intervention of the UEFA, FIFA and FIFPro again.
Prunea was appointed on 22 November 2005 as Director of International Relations of the Romanian Football Federation and took office after the end of his playing career on 8 December 2005. In June 2009, however, he was on leave until further notice. It had been known that Prunea is accused by the National Anti -Corruption Authority to have adopted a five-figure sum of money in the fall of 2008 to take on the mitigating against Cornel Penescu, FC Arges Pitesti by the President, penalty to be imposed influence. In February 2010 Prunea was sports director at Dinamo Bucharest and held this post until the end of 2010. His commitment as sports director at Astra Ploieşti, he had begun early January 2011, was terminated on August 10, 2011. Since January 10, 2012 Prunea is club president of CSMS Iaşi in the League II
Prunea is married and has an adopted daughter.
Awards
On 25 March 2008 Prunea was " sporty Meritul " III by Romanian President Traian Basescu for the achievements in the national team with the Order of Merit. Class excellent. He is Honored Master of Sports.