Career of Romanian football player and coach Dan Petrescu

Dan Petrescu is a famous Romanian coach, and in the past a football player who now heads Al-Nasr from the United Arab Emirates. Career Dana Petrescu was incredibly rich, both in his youth, and when he already became a coach. When Petrescu was a football player, he acted as the right-back. Performances at the professional level Dana Petrescu ended in 2003, when he at the age of 36 announced his retirement.

Biography

Dan Petrescu was born on December 22, 1967 in the capital of Romania Bucharest. However, he has not only Romanian, but also British citizenship, which he received when he was playing in England. As for his personal life, Petrescu was married twice. With the first wife he parted in 2003, and in 2008 he remarried. He and his wife Adriana have three daughters, two of whom Dan left from a previous marriage.

Club career

Dana Petrescu's appearances in football began in Romania, where he was raised from an early age by the academy of one of the strongest clubs in the country, Steaua. At the age of eighteen he signed a professional contract with the team and from 1985 to 1991, played for this club. In total, he played 151 games for Steaua, and also played 25 games for Olt Skornicesti in Romania on loan.

In 1991, Dan Petrescu's career changed dramatically, as he went on promotion and moved to Italy, where he played for two years as "Foggia", and another year - for "Genoa". Unlike the Romanian championship, where Petrescu won three championships and two cups, and once reached the Champions League final, in Italy he did not expect much success, but it was Foggia and Genoa that became a springboard for him in big football.

In 1994, he moved to England, where he played a year and a half for Sheffield before climbing to the top of his career. In the winter of 1996, Dan Petrescu moved to London Chelsea, for which he played four and a half years, went on the field 207 times, won the FA Cup, the English League Cup and the Champions League. Since 2000, the defender's career has declined, he moved first to "Bradford", then to "Southampton", then in 2002 he returned to Romania. Last football club Dana Petrescu - "National", in which he played his last season, before the summer of 2003 announcing the retirement.

Career in the national team

In the Romanian national team Petrescu made his debut in March 1989 and since then has spent 94 games for the national team. This is the sixth indicator among all Romanian football players in the history of the national team. Petrescu was at the 1994 World Cup, where he scored a goal against the hosts of the tournament, which allowed the Romanians to leave the group. He was also at the 1996 European Championships and at the 1998 World Championships, where he scored a goal against the British. The last major tournament Petrescu was the European Championship 2000.

Career coach

Trainer Dan Petrescu, whose biography did not end within the field, but continued beyond its borders, became immediately after the completion of the footballer's career. In the summer of 2003, he headed Romania's Sportul, which he managed for one season and won the First League of Romania. Following this Petrescu led the Polish "Vistula", with which he took second place in the Polish championship, and in 2006 he stayed for a long time at the Romanian club "Unirea". There he stayed almost three and a half years and won the Romanian championship before moving to Russia in winter 2009 to lead the "Kuban".

He spent three more seasons at the wheel of one club, leading him to the victory in the First Division in 2010, after which he moved to the Moscow "Dynamo". There he failed to achieve success, so he went to Qatar's Al-Arabi, which he managed very little. In the summer of 2015 Petrescu returned to Romania and headed "Tirgu Mures", with whom he won the Romanian Super Cup, but a month later went to work in China, where he was offered an incredible contract in "Jiangsu Sainty". With this club, he won the Chinese Cup, and in the summer of 2016 returned to Russia to lead the "Kuban", from which he was dismissed in October of the same year. October 29, 2016 Petrescu was led by Al-Nasr of the United Arab Emirates, which now leads.