Vlad Chiricheș

Vlad Chiricheș
Chiricheș with the national team (2012)
Personnel
Surname	Vlad Iulian Chiricheș
birthday	November 14, 1989
place of birth	Bacau ,  Romania
size	184 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
2004-2007	FC Ardealul Cluj
2007-2008	Benfica Lisbon
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2010	Internațional Curtea de Argeș	41 (1)
2010-2011	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	39 (0)
2012-2013	Steaua Bucharest	42 (1)
2013-2015	Tottenham Hotspur	27 (1)
2015–	SSC Naples	32 (3)
2019–	→  US Sassuolo Calcio  (loan)	4 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2011–	Romania	57 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of April 22, 2020 2 As of October 12, 2019

Vlad Iulian Chiricheș (born November 14, 1989 in Bacau ) is a Romanian football player . The central defender has been under contract with SSC Napoli in Serie A since the 2015/16 season . In 2013 he was named Romania's Footballer of the Year .

Career

At the age of 17 Chiricheș moved to Portugal to the youth of Benfica Lisbon . After a year he returned to Romania and joined Internațional Curtea de Argeș in Liga 2 . In 2009 he rose with his team to League 1 , the highest Romanian division. There he was used in 15 games and managed to stay up.

Since Chiricheș Internațional received no approval for the 2010/11 season , he left the club and moved to league rivals Pandurii Târgu Jiu . There he was able to establish himself as a regular player. In January 2012 he was drawn to record champions Steaua Bucharest . There he won his first title with the championship in 2013 .

On August 30, 2013 Chiricheş moved to the Premier League at Tottenham Hotspur . On December 4, 2013 Chiriches also scored his first goal for Tottenham in the derby against Fulham FC .

For the 2015/16 season Chiricheş moved to the Italian series for SSC Napoli .

National team

In August 2011, national coach Victor Pițurcă Chiricheş called into his squad for a friendly against San Marino and nominated him for the starting line-up. Since then he has been a regular member of the squad.

He was also included in the Romanian squad at the 2016 European Football Championship in France . As team captain, he led the national team in the EM opening game against France. There he received the first yellow card of the EM in the 32nd minute of the game. In the games against Switzerland and Albania, he was on the pitch for the full length of the season. After the group stage, the team was eliminated.

successes

• Romanian Footballer of the Year: 2013
• 2 × Romanian champions: 2013 , 2014
• Promotion to league 1: 2009
• Italian runner-up: 2015/16 , 2017/18

Web links

Commons : Vlad Chiricheș  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Vlad Chiricheş in the database of weltfussball.de
• Vlad Chiricheș on romaniansoccer.ro (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Match report France - Romania 2: 1 (0: 0) , in: transfermarkt.de, from June 10, 2016