Ovidiu Burcă

Ovidiu Nicuşor Burcă / ovidiu nikuʃor burkə / ( born March 16, 1980 in Slatina, Olt County ) is a Romanian football player. Since January 2013 he is without a club.

Career

The center-back started his career in 1996 at the Junior Team scoala de fotbal Gică Popescu Craiova, where he played until 1998. Then moved Burcă for a year to Ecuador to CS Emelec.

In 1999, he joined the J. League club JEF United Ichihara Chiba. Again, it did not keep him longer than a year; in July 2000, he returned to his Romanian homeland and signed for FC Universitatea Craiova.

At the beginning of the 2002/ 03 moved to Dinamo Bucharest Burcă, where he was until 2005 once the Romanian champion and twice Romanian Cup Winners' Cup. Overall, he played for Dinamo 46 times in Divizia A and twice in the Champions League. In the season 2004/ 05 he came in addition to ten inserts for the second team of Dinamo in Divizia B. For season 2005/ 06 he went to the city rivals FC Naţional Bucharest and played in two seasons 39 times in Divizia A, scoring two hits.

For 2007/ 08, the defensive player moves to the first Bundesliga Energie Cottbus, where he signed a contract running until 2010. Shortly after his signature, he had to undergo surgery and fell out a long time. A metal plate that had been four months previously employed him due to a hairline crack in the fibula had caused inflammation. Then he struggled in the Bundesliga squad, fell in March but recovered by a groin strain from. In his first season with the Lusatians therefore he did not play. In the summer of 2008, he was awarded by the end of Beijing Guoan.

After the end of his contract with Energie Cottbus Burcă changed in the summer of 2010 back in the Romanian League 1 and joined the FC Timişoara. There he was the season with his team's 2010/11 as runners-up finish behind Oţelul Galaţi. After his club had been denied admission to the 2011/ 12, he moved to league rivals Rapid Bucharest. With his new club, he moved into the Cup final in 2012, but it lost to Dinamo Bucharest 0-1. During the winter break of 2012/13, the paths of Burcă and Rapid parted. Since then, he is without a club.

2013 he started together with other former players a legal dispute with his former employer Rapid Bucharest, in order to claim the outstanding salaries. He has also been a few times as a football expert in TV program on the guest and in August 2013 for a short time as a coach at League FC Braşov in conversation.

Achievements

• Romanian champions: 2004
• Romanian Cup Winners: 2003, 2004

Others

In spring 2006 Burcă opened together with his wife, the restaurant "charm" in Bucharest's Old Town district Lipscani.