Cristian Săpunaru

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Cristian Săpunaru
Cristian Sapunaru (cropped) - Sweden vs Romania 23 March 2019.jpg
Săpunaru with the national team (2019)
Personnel
Surname Ionuț Cristian Săpunaru
birthday April 5, 1984
place of birth Bucharest ,  Romania
size 187 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1990-2002 FC National Bucharest
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002-2006 FC National Bucharest 34 (3)
2004-2005 →  Callatis Mangalia  (loan) 10 (0)
2006-2008 Rapid Bucharest 51 (2)
2008–2012 FC Porto 67 (3)
2010 →  Rapid Bucharest  (loan) 10 (3)
2012-2013 Real Zaragoza 29 (2)
2013-2014 FC Elche 8 (1)
2015 Rapid Bucharest 13 (4)
2015-2016 Pandurii Târgu Jiu 22 (5)
2016-2017 Astra Giurgiu 32 (8)
2017-2019 Kayserispor 59 (2)
2019-2020 Denizlispor 14 (0)
2020– Kayserispor 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008– Romania 25 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: January 24, 2020

2 As of March 27, 2018

Ionuț Cristian Săpunaru (born April 5, 1984 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian football player .

Career

society

Săpunaru in training with FC Porto (2011)

Săpunaru's professional career started in 2002 with the then Romanian vice-champions FC Național Bucharest . He had been part of the club since he was seven. In his first season in 2002/03 he came on only four missions. The following season was even worse and Săpunaru had to be content with an appearance in the dress of the bankers . During the winter break, it was decided to start a rental business and gave it to Callatis Mangalia for half a year . In Divizia B , he should gain match practice. After his return, it took him a year before he developed into a regular player in 2005/06. In summer 2006 he moved within the capital and joined Rapid Bucharest . A few weeks before signing the contract, Săpunaru lost with Progresul against Rapid in the Romanian Cup final.

In summer 2008 he moved to FC Porto . There he signed a five-year contract, but was loaned back to Rapid Bucharest in the second half of the 2009/10 season. After returning to Porto, he won the 2011 championship , the Portuguese Cup and the Europa League .

On August 31, 2012 it was announced that Săpunaru was moving to Real Zaragoza . With his new club, he had to relegate at the end of the 2012/13 season . He then moved to FC Elche . He had been without a club for half a year since the summer of 2014 before Rapid Bucharest brought him back to Romania. In the 2015/16 season he then played for Pandurii Târgu Jiu . In summer 2016 he joined Astra Giurgiu .

In the summer of 2017 he moved to Turkey for the first division club Kayserispor . After two years as a regular player, Săpunaru moved together with his teammate Tiago Lopes to the Aegean club Denizlispor , which he left again during the winter break and returned to Kayserispor.

National team

Although he did not have too much accumulated international match experience Săpunaru was in the squad of the Romanians for the 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland nominated.

He made his debut in preparation for the European Championship in a friendly against Montenegro .

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Romanian squad . He was one of the players who played all three group games until they were eliminated for the full season.

successes

society

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cristian Sapunaru se une a la plantilla del Real Zaragoza (Spanish), realzaragoza.com, accessed on September 1
  2. ↑ "Şampiyon Denizlispor, ilk imzayı Sapunaru'ya attırdı!" (In Turkish), accessed on June 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Săpunaru, Cristian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Săpunaru, Ionuț Cristian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Romania