Gheorghe Bucur
Gheorghe " Gigel " Bucur ( born April 8, 1980 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian football player at the position of a striker. Since January 2010, he plays for FC Kuban Krasnodar in the Russian Premjer League.
Club career
Bucur began his career at Sportul Studenţesc, where he was brought into the first team in 1998. In his first season with the students, the striker has been with the club in Divizia B 13 After a third place in 2000, 2001 could rise to be fixed. Bucur debuted in the 2001/ 02 season on August 13, 2001 at home against Petrolul Ploiesti in Divizia A. In his first Erstligasaison could only reach the 13th place; However, in the following relegation playoffs, the club was able to secure the league. In 2003 he was the descent, as only reached the penultimate place with space 15. The following year, the resurgence came with number one. As a climber Bucur could reach the best ever place his career with his club in the 2004/05 season with seventh place.
In 2005 he was transferred for a fee of $ 800,000 for FC Timişoara, according to an eighth and a seventh place in the years 2005/ 06 and 2006 /07, you could qualify with the sixth place in the UEFA Cup 2007/ 08. In the 2008 /09 season Bucur made his debut at European club level, he played through in the 1st round of the UEFA Cup in the match against FK Partizan Belgrade and received a yellow card. The match ended 1:2. By 0-1 in the return leg in Belgrade, the club dropped out prematurely. This season one was also runner-up three points behind champions Unirea Urziceni. In early 2010 moved Bucur in the second Russian league to Kuban Krasnodar. At the end of the season he went on to Kuban in the Premjer League.
National
For the Romanian national team striker played 24 times and scored four goals. He made his debut on 9 February 2005 in a friendly against Slovakia, when he came on in the 71st minute. The first goal scored in national dress Bucur on 8 June 2005 in the 2006 World Cup qualifying match against Armenia. At 3-0 Bucur netted a brace.
After he had come in the World Cup qualifier against the Czech Republic for a brief appearance on September 3, 2005 Bucur was initially not taken into account by national coach Victor Piţurcă. In August 2007 he returned to the circle of the national team, but was rarely off the bench. Only under Piţurcăs Razvan Lucescu successor he was back in the starting lineup and scored in a World Cup qualifier against Austria on 9 September 2009, the gateway to the 1-0 lead. After another goal in the final qualifier against the Faroe Islands on 14 October Bucur was rarely considered. Only when Lucescu was in turn replaced by Piţurcă the summer of 2011, he was on 2 September 2011 at the European Championship qualifier against Luxembourg again in the squad. His most last match he played 11 October 2011 in a 1-1 draw against Albania when he came on in the 87th minute for Costin Lazar.
Beginning September 2013 Bucur returned back to the national team. After he was on as a substitute in the World Cup qualifier against Turkey on September 10, 2013 in the 78th minute, he stood at October 15, 2013 against Estonia for the first time in the starting lineup.
Achievements
- Promotion to League 1: 2001, 2004
- Rise in the Premjer League: 2010