Liviu Ciobotariu
| Liviu Ciobotariu | ||
 Liviu Ciobotariu (2019)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | March 26, 1971 | |
| place of birth | Ghimpați , Romania | |
| size | 188 cm | |
| position | Central defender | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1989-1998 | Progresul / National Bucharest | 173 (19) |
| 1990 | → Pandurii Târgu Jiu (loan) | |
| 1998-1999 | Dinamo Bucharest | 47 (4) |
| 1999-2001 | Standard Liege | 47 (0) |
| 2001-2003 | RAEC Mons | 46 (1) |
| 2004 | Royal Antwerp | 14 (0) |
| 2004-2005 | Dinamo Bucharest | 8 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1997-2001 | Romania | 32 (3) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2006 | National Bucharest | |
| 2006-2007 | Dunărea Galați | |
| 2007-2008 | CS Otopeni | |
| 2008 | Internațional Curtea de Argeș | |
| 2008-2009 | CS Otopeni | |
| 2009-2010 | Pandurii Târgu Jiu | |
| 2010 | CF Brăila | |
| 2010-2011 | Dinamo II Bucharest | |
| 2011–2012 | Dinamo Bucharest | |
| 2012-2013 | CSMS Iași | |
| 2013-2014 | FC Vaslui | |
| 2015 | ASA Târgu Mureș | |
| 2015-2016 | al-Faisaly FC | |
| 2017-2018 | Al-Tai FC | |
| 2018-2019 | FC Botoșani | |
| 2019-2020 | Lebanon | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Liviu Ciobotariu (born March 26, 1971 in Ghimpați , Giurgiu County ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach . He played a total of 335 games in the Romanian Divizia A and the Belgian First Division . As a national player, he took part in the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Football Championship .
Player career
In the club
The career of Ciobotariu began in 1989 with Progresul Bucharest in Divizia C . After promotion to Divizia B in 1990 , he first played for half a year with league rivals Pandurii Târgu Jiu before returning to Progresul. With the club he managed to stay up in 1991, before a year later the march through to Divizia A was made perfect.
Once in the House of Lords, Ciobotariu was able to defend his place in the team and had his share in the steep rise of his team. After relegation in 1993 and a place in midfield in the following season , the club was able to place in the top third of the table at the end of the 1994/95 season . His most successful years with FC Național followed, when he was able to finish both the 1995/96 and 1996/97 seasons with his team as runner-up behind Steaua Bucharest . In both seasons he achieved the best goal yield of his career with four and six goals respectively. After the cup final in 1997 he moved with his club as a defeated cup finalist in the European Cup Winners' Cup . There he overtook him in the first round against the Turkish representative Kocaelispor . A year earlier, the club had reached the second round of the UEFA Cup .
After almost nine years, Ciobotariu left Național in February 1998 and moved to local rivals Dinamo Bucharest . Here he was also able to celebrate the runner- up in the 1998/99 season . In the autumn of 1999 he signed the Belgian top club Standard Liège . After two years he moved to RAEC Mons in Division II . There he was promoted to the First Division . After relegation in 2003 , the club was in danger of relegation in the 2003/04 season . During the winter break, however, Ciobotariu moved to league rivals Royal Antwerp , with whom he only came to the bottom of the table.
In the summer of 2004 Ciobotariu returned to Romania and ended his career after another runner-up with Dinamo Bucharest.
In the national team
Ciobotariu played 32 games for the Romanian national football team . He made his debut on August 20, 1997 in the World Cup qualifier against Macedonia , when he came on in the 74th minute for Daniel Prodan . After successfully qualifying, national coach Anghel Iordănescu appointed him a year later in his squad for the 1998 World Cup in France. Although he had previously played only four international matches, Ciobotariu played the tournament as a regular.
After the World Cup, Ciobotariu was able to maintain his place in the team under Iordănescus successor Victor Pițurcă . At the end of 1999 he was able to celebrate the successful qualification for the European Championship 2000 . There he was part of the squad of the new national coach Emerich Jenei , but was only used in Belgium and the Netherlands in the opening game against Germany and in the quarter-finals against Italy .
In the following World Cup qualification , Ciobotarius missions became less frequent. On June 6, 2001, he played his last international match against Lithuania .
Coaching career
After the end of his active career, Ciobotariu worked as a football coach. In June 2007 he left Dunărea Galați to sign a one-year contract in Liga II at CS Otopeni as the successor to Costel Orac . At the end of the season, the promotion to League 1 succeeded , but Ciobotariu took over the coaching position at Internațional Curtea de Argeş until September 2008 . In November 2008 he was again head coach of CS Otopeni in League 1, where he succeeded Marian Bucurescu . He had taken over the club second from bottom place and he failed to descend to avoid. He stayed in Otopeni, but left the club in October 2009 to take over his former club Pandurii Târgu Jiu in the House of Lords, who had previously separated from Sorin Cârțu . After just one win in eleven games, he was released in March 2010 and replaced by his predecessor. On September 30, 2010 he replaced Daniel Timofte as a coach at CF Brăila , the bottom of the league II table. Since he came in only one draw in five league games, he was replaced by Timofte again in November 2010. On December 24, 2010 Ciobotariu was accepted as a coach of the second division Dinamo II Bucharest and as a youth coach in the staff of Dinamo Bucharest . On July 11, 2011, he was promoted to the first team coach as the successor to Ioan Andone . Although Dinamo finished second and had won the semi-final first leg of the Cupa României 2011/12 against Gaz Metan Mediaş , Ciobotariu was dismissed after a home defeat by Petrolul Ploieşti on April 10, 2012 and replaced by the Italian Dario Bonetti .
In August 2012, Ciobotariu was head coach of first division club CSMS Iași . There he was released in April 2013 in view of the threat of relegation and replaced by Sorin Cârțu . From October 2013 he was in charge of FC Vaslui before he was released in April 2014 and replaced by Costinel Botez . In early 2015, he succeeded Cristian Pustai as head coach of ASA Târgu Mureș . After the runner-up in 2015 , he left the club to al-Faisaly FC in Saudi Arabia.
From 2019 to 2020, Ciobotariu was the head coach of the Lebanese national team .
successes
As a player
- World Cup participant: 1998
- EM participants: 2000
- Romanian runner-up: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2005
- Romanian Cup Winner: 2005
- Belgian Cup finalist: 2000
- Promotion to the Belgian First Division: 2002
As a trainer
- Romanian runner-up: 2015
Others
Ciobotariu is married and has two sons who both play football. The older son, Cosmin Ciobotariu (* 1993), made his debut in 2009 as a defender at CS Corbeanca in Liga IV . He later moved to CS Cautis and then briefly trained under his father at CS Otopeni before deciding on a career as a referee in 2011.
Web links
- Liviu Ciobotariu in the database of weltfussball.de
- Liviu Ciobotariu on romaniansoccer.ro (English)
- Liviu Ciobotariu on labtof.ro (Romanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ only games in Divizia A
- ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor, May 5, 2008 , accessed July 31, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ Falimentul fotbalului brăilean ( Memento from November 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 28, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ ProSport of December 29, 2010 , accessed on July 28, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ ProSport of July 11, 2011 , accessed on July 28, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ ProSport of April 10, 2012 , accessed on April 20, 2012 (Romanian)
- ↑ Libertatea of September 23, 2009 , accessed November 29, 2011 (Romanian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ciobotariu, Liviu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghimpați , Giurgiu County |