Gheorghe Bucur

Gheorghe Bucur
Personnel
birthday	April 8, 1980
place of birth	Bucharest ,  Romania
size	171 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1998-2005	Sportul Studențesc	169 (76)
2005-2009	FC Timișoara	124 (60)
2010-2016	FK Kuban Krasnodar	160 (28)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2005-2013	Romania	26 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Gheorghe "Gigel" Bucur (born April 8, 1980 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian football player on the position of a striker . He played a total of 320 games in the Romanian League 1 and the Russian Premjer League .

Club career

Bucur began his career at Sportul Studențesc , where he was brought to the first team in 1998. In his first season with the students, the striker was 13th with the club in the Divizia B. After a third place in 2000, 2001 the promotion could be fixed. Bucur debuted in the season 2001/02 on 13 August 2001 at home against Petrolul Ploiesti in the Divizia A . In his first first division season you could only reach 13th place; in the following relegation playoffs, however, the club was able to secure relegation. The relegation followed in 2003 when they only reached the penultimate place with 15th place. The following year came back to top place. As a climber, Bucur and his club were able to achieve the best position of his career so far in the 2004/05 season with seventh place.

In 2005 he moved to FC Timișoara for a transfer fee of 800,000 US dollars , after an eighth and seventh place in 2005/06 and 2006/07 you could qualify for the 2007/08 with sixth place for the UEFA Cup . In the 2008-09 season, Bucur made his European club debut when he played through FK Partizan Belgrade in the first round of the UEFA Cup and received a yellow card. The game ended 1: 2. Due to the 0: 1 in the second leg in Belgrade , the club was eliminated early. This season they were also runner-up three points behind champion Unirea Urziceni . In early 2010, Bucur moved to the second Russian division to Kuban Krasnodar . At the end of the season he rose to the Premjer league with Kuban . In the 2012/13 season he qualified with Kuban for the Europa League . There he moved with his team into the group stage and was eliminated against Valencia CF and Swansea City . In the league, he slipped with his club in the following years in the lower half of the table. After relegation in 2016 , he ended his career.

National team

For the Romanian national team, the striker played 26 times and scored four goals. He made his debut on February 9, 2005 in the friendly against Slovakia when he came on in the 71st minute. Bucur scored the first goal in national team dress on June 8, 2005 in the qualifying game for the 2006 World Cup against Armenia . In the 3-0 success, Bucur scored a double.

After he had come to a short stint in the World Cup qualifier against the Czech Republic on September 3, 2005, Bucur was initially no longer considered by national coach Victor Pițurcă . He only returned to the national team in August 2007, but was rarely substituted on. It was only under Pițurcă's successor Răzvan Lucescu that he was back in the starting line-up and scored the 1-0 lead in the World Cup qualifier against Austria on September 9, 2009. After another goal in the final qualifying game against the Faroe Islands on October 14th, Bucur was rarely considered. It was only when Lucescu was replaced by Pițurcă in the summer of 2011 that he was back in the squad on September 2, 2011 in the European Championship qualifier against Luxembourg . His last international match for the time being, he played on October 11, 2011 in a 1-1 draw against Albania , when he came on for Costin Lazar in the 87th minute .

In early September 2013, Bucur returned to the national team. After being substituted on in the 78th minute of the World Cup qualifier against Turkey on September 10, 2013, he was back on the starting line-up for the first time on October 15, 2013 against Estonia .

successes

• Promotion to League 1 : 2001, 2004
• Promotion to Premier League : 2010

Web links

• Gheorghe Bucur in the database of weltfussball.de
• Gheorghe Bucur in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Gheorghe Bucur on romaniansoccer.ro (English)