Marius Niculae

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Marius Niculae
Personnel
Surname Marius Constantin Niculae
birthday May 16, 1981
place of birth Bucharest ,  Romania
size 184 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1990-1996 Dinamo Bucharest
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-2001 Dinamo Bucharest 100 (43)
2001-2005 Sporting Lisbon 59 (14)
2005-2006 Standard Liege 26 0(4)
2007 1. FSV Mainz 05 6 0(0)
2007-2008 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 35 0(8)
2008–2012 Dinamo Bucharest 89 (38)
2011 →  AO Kavala  (loan) 12 0(4)
2012 FC Vaslui 19 (11)
2013 Shandong Luneng Taishan 8 0(2)
2013-2014 FC Hoverla-Zakarpattya Uzhhorod 13 0(3)
2014 Şanlıurfaspor 0 0(0)
2015 Dinamo Bucharest 13 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2000-2013 Romania 43 (15)
1 Only league games are given.

Marius Constantin Niculae (born May 16, 1981 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian football player . He played a total of 380 games in the Romanian Liga 1 , the Portuguese Primeira Liga , the Belgian Pro League , the German Bundesliga , the Scottish Premier League , the Greek Super League , the Chinese Super League and the Ukrainian Premjer-Liha . In 2000 he won the Romanian championship with Dinamo Bucharest and the Portuguese championship in 2002 with Sporting Lisbon . As a national player, he took part in the 2008 European Championship .

Club career

Niculae played his first championship game in Divizia A for Dinamo Bucharest on November 22, 1996 at the age of 15 against FC Farul Constanța . He scored 43 goals in 100 league games for his club before moving to Portuguese top club Sporting Lisbon in 2001 for a transfer fee of around nine million US dollars . With this he became Portuguese champions in 2002 and lost 3-1 in the final of the UEFA Cup CSKA Moscow in 2005 in his own stadium . Niculae was substituted on in the final in the closing stages.

In 2005 the striker moved to the Belgian club Standard Liège on a free transfer . His contract, which expired in 2006, was not renewed and he was without a club until December 2006. The 1. FSV Mainz 05 signed Niculae until June 2007. After the club's relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga , Niculae signed a new contract for the 2007/08 season with Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Premier League on July 17, 2007 .

In July 2008 Niculae moved back to Dinamo Bucharest . There he found his scoring danger again in the 2008/09 season with twelve goals and finished third with his club. In the following season , with a sixth place, expectations were not met. In the winter break of 2010/11 he was loaned to AO Kavala in the Greek Super League for half a year . He then returned to Dinamo. There he won the Romanian Cup for the third time in 2012 . He then moved to the reigning runner-up FC Vaslui . He left this again during the winter break and went to Shandong Luneng Taishan in China. Half a year later he moved to the Ukrainian club FC Hoverla-Zakarpattya Uzhhorod .

In the summer of 2014 he moved to the Turkish second division club Şanlıurfaspor , which he left again in August 2014. At the beginning of 2015, Dinamo Bucharest signed him again. His contract there was no longer renewed in the summer of 2015. After he had not found a new club, Niculae ended his career.

National team

Niculae made his debut on February 2, 2000 against Latvia in the Romanian national team . After 18 internationals and ten goals, Niculaes career was stopped for the first time in November 2001 by a cruciate ligament tear . Later, a broken foot followed, so that the former young star has only been used sporadically in the national team. For the Romanian U-21 national team, he scored four goals in 21 games.

successes

relationship

Marius is the son of Constantin Niculae (* 1955), who became European champion in Debrecen in 1981 and vice world champion in judo in Maastricht and now works as a judo trainer.

literature

  • Mihai Ionescu / Răzvan Toma / Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 285 .

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personal data
SURNAME Niculae, Marius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niculae, Marius Constantin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Romania