Florin Răducioiu
Florin Valeriu Răducioiu ( born March 17, 1970 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian football player. He is next to Christian Poulsen one of two players who have played in each of the five strongest European leagues, the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga. Răducioiu took part in the Football World Cup 1990 soccer World Cup in 1994 and the European Football Championship 1996.
Career
At the age of eight years Florin Răducioiu came by his father to Dinamo Bucharest. At the age of 16 years completed Răducioiu his first appearance for Dinamo in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A, when he came off the bench on 21 May 1986 shortly before the end of the match against Politehnica Timişoara. With Dinamo Răducioiu was in the 1990 Romanian League and Cup winners and runners-up three times. Also in the 1989/90 season he reached the semi-finals with Dinamo in European Cup Winners' Cup, but was eliminated by the RSC Anderlecht.
1990 was Răducioiu age of 20 as one of the best Romanian player and changed - how many Romanian players - abroad. He joined the AS Bari in Serie A at. This was followed by frequent change of club and Răducioiu came over Hellas Verona to Brescia, before moving to AC Milan in 1993. With Răducioiu Milan won the Italian championship in 1994 and the Champions League, but was rarely used. After a very good World Cup Răducioiu then moved to Spain to Espanyol after the European Championships in 1996, he moved to England to West Ham United, but went after problems with manager Harry Redknapp already back in the winter break to Espanyol.
1997 Răducioiu again left Spain and moved to the Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart, with whom he reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. Since he was not happy in Stuttgart, 1998 Răducioiu went back to Italy and played again for Brescia Calcio, before he returned in 2000 to Romania to Dinamo Bucharest. Since he hardly used at Dinamo, he changed already during the winter break 2000/ 01 for AS Monaco in France. In 2002 Răducioiu ended his active career, he recorded only nine missions for U.S. Créteil in Ligue 2 in 2004 again.
From December 2006 to February 2007, he was sports director at Dinamo Bucharest and started in 2009 a coach education. In 2010 Răducioiu acquired the football coach license ( Diploma UEFA PRO ) in Coverciano, near Florence ( Italy).
National
Florin Răducioiu played his first 40 internationals on April 25, 1990 in Haifa against Israel. He participated in the World Cup in Italy in 1990 and the Football World Cup 1994 in the USA, where he scored four goals in four games and had thus contributed significantly to the best performance of a Romanian team. According to the European Football Championship in England in 1996, he finished his career in the national team.
Achievements
- World Cup qualifiers: 1990, 1994
- EM participants: 1996
- Champions League winner: 1994
- Finalist in the European Cup Winners' Cup: 1998
- Italian Champion: 1994
- Romanian champions: 1990
- Romanian Cup Winners: 1990
Awards
On 25 March 2008 Răducioiu was " sporty Meritul " III by Romanian President Traian Basescu for the achievements in the national team with the Order of Merit. Class excellent.
Others
Florin Răducioiu was long the only player who División in the top five European leagues, the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, had played. 2011 managed this also Christian Poulsen. In addition, he is next to Gheorghe Popescu, Pierre Wome, Abel Xavier, Jon Dahl Tomasson and Christian Poulsen, the only player who has played in four of these leagues (excluding France).
Răducioiu has been married since 1997 and has a daughter and a son with whom he lives in Brescia.