Dorin Goian

Dorin Goian
Dorin Goian (2012)
Personnel
Surname	Dorin Nicolae Goian
birthday	December 12, 1980
place of birth	Suceava ,  Romania
size	194 cm
position	Central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-2000	Foresta Suceava	16 (0)
2000	→  Gloria Buzău  (loan)	19 (0)
2000-2001	Foresta Suceava	15 (0)
2001-2003	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	45 (2)
2003-2004	FCM Bacau	26 (2)
2004-2009	Steaua Bucharest	107 (6)
2009-2011	US Palermo	30 (1)
2011-2013	Glasgow Rangers	35 (1)
2012-2013	→  Spezia Calcio  (loan)	26 (2)
2013-2016	Asteras Tripoli	69 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2005-2014	Romania	62 (5)
1 Only league games are given.

Dorin Nicolae Goian (born December 12, 1980 in Suceava , Suceava County ) is a former Romanian football player . The central defender played a total of 321 games in the Romanian League 1 , the Italian Serie A , the Scottish Premier League and the Greek Super League . In 2005 and 2006 he won the Romanian championship with Steaua Bucharest .

Career

society

Goian as a player for Steaua Bucharest in 2009

At the age of 17, Goian was committed by Foresta Fălticeni (later Foresta Suceava ), a small club near Suceava , where he was to play in the second team. Two years later he was brought into the first team and loaned to Gloria Buzau for a few months in 2000 . After his return, he plays in the Divizia A and Divizia B .

In 2003 he moved to FCM Bacau , for whose team Goian completed a season. He played 26 games and scored two goals. During this time he was appointed to the Romanian national team for the first time.

In August 2004 Goian moved to Steaua Bucharest , where he signed a 5-year contract. He scored his first goal for this team in the UEFA Cup against Vålerenga IF . In this competition he scored more goals against RC Lens , Halmstads BK , SC Heerenveen and FC Middlesbrough and was the most successful goalscorer of his team as a defensive player.

In August 2009 he signed a four-year contract with the Italian first division club US Palermo . There he reached the final of the Coppa Italia 2011 , but lost to Inter Milan there .

In the summer of 2011 Goian moved to Scotland to the Glasgow Rangers and signed a three-year contract there. In 2012, the Rangers were transferred to the Scottish Football League Third Division . Goian was then loaned to the Italian second division club Spezia Calcio for a year . After his return he left Scotland in August 2013 and joined the Greek first division club Asteras Tripolis . With his new club, he qualified for the Europa League at the end of the 2013/14 season . He ended his active career in the summer of 2016.

National team

Goian played his first game in the national team on November 16, 2005 against Nigeria . He was able to qualify with Romania for the European Football Championship in 2008 and was called up for the tournament in the squad. In the group games he ran in two games for the Romanians, but could not prevent the preliminary round.

successes

• Romanian champion : 2005 , 2006
• Romanian Super Cup winner : 2006
• UEFA Cup semi-finalist: 2006
• Coppa Italia finalist: 2011
• Scottish runner-up : 2012

Private

Goian is married and has one daughter. His brother Lucian Goian (* 1983) is also a soccer player.

Web links

Commons : Dorin Goian  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Dorin Goian in the database of weltfussball.de
• Dorin Goian in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Dorin Goian on romaniansoccer.ro (English)
• Goian's stake statistics on aic.football.it
• Dorin Goian in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PRESO DORIN GOIAN DALLO STEAUA BUCAREST
2. ↑ rangers.co.uk: “One Of Europe's Best”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)