Viorel Moldovan

Dinu Viorel Moldovan ( born July 8, 1972 in Bistrita, Bistrita-Nasaud circle ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach.

Career as a player

Moldovan began his career in 1984 in the youth of Gloria Bistrita. After a short visit to Viitorul Bistrita he returned to his home club and rose in 1990 with Gloria for the first time in the club's history in the Divizia A on. There he made ​​his debut on 21 October 1990 the away defeat against Petrolul Ploieşti. 1991 failed attempt to transfer an MVV Maastricht, for 1993, he moved to league rivals Dinamo Bucharest. For the 1995/96 season he moved to Switzerland to Moldovan Neuchâtel Xamax. After only one season with the New burgers in which he became top scorer of the National League A, he moved to league rivals Grasshopper Club Zurich, where he was able to defend his title. For the second half of the 1997/98 season he signed for English Premier League club Coventry City, where he was but rarely used. In the summer of 1998, Moldovan Coventry left towards Fenerbahce in Turkey, where he spent two seasons. In 2000 he moved to France with FC Nantes, with the 2001, he was champion of France and was able to win the Trophée des Champions. After a brief stint in 2003 in the United Arab Emirates at Al- Wahda Moldovan returned to FC Nantes. In the 2004/05 season he played for Servette Geneva, he left home to FCU Politehnica Timişoara direction after the forced relegation. In the 2006/07 season he played for Rapid Bucharest before he finished his career.

National

Moldovan played from 1993 to 2005 70 times for the Romanian national football team, thereby pass him 26 goals. He took with her also to the Football World Cup in 1994, where he remained without use, and 1998 and the European Football Championships in 1996 and 2000 in part.

Career as a coach

After he worked as sports director at Unirea Urziceni, Moldovan sparked November 1, 2008 Viorel Hizo in the office of head coach from FC Vaslui. As Adrian Porumboiu, the patron of the association, had repeatedly expressed regarding a possible withdrawal from the championship after the end of the 2008/09 season, Moldovan released his contract on 26 May 2009 to early.

On 27 July 2009, five days before the start of the 2009/10 season, Moldovan replaced shortly Nicolò Napoli as a coach at FC Braşov in Liga 1, but terminated the contract because of outstanding salary payments beginning June 2010. September 9, 2010, he took over the training at Erstligaaufsteiger Sportul Studenţesc, gave the office on October 31, 2010 after seven league games in which the team was able to win only one point and had slipped to the bottom of the table, but again.

Since September 2013 he has been head coach of Rapid Bucharest in the League II

Successes as a player

  • World Cup qualifiers: 1994, 1998
  • European Football Cup: 1996, 2000
  • Swiss Champion: 1998
  • French Champion: 2001
  • Romanian Cup Winners: 2007
  • French Supercup: 2001
  • Scorer of the National League A: 1995/96, 1996/97

Awards

On 25 March 2008 Moldovan 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.

Others

Viorel Moldovan was also the non- football- interested part of the Swiss population, when its name has played a role during a quiz show fraud. A candidate of the quiz show risk gave to a question the name of Moldovans as a response. In fact, would Viorel Moldovan only been to a later question the correct answer; the candidate is the right answers had left to explore by helper, but it confuses the issues. The full answer " The isch Danish Fuessballer Moldovan gsi " ( That was the Moldovan footballer ) was then in Switzerland for fixed phrase. Moldovan is married and has a son and a daughter.

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