Bogdan Stelea

Infobox Football biography
playername = Bogdan Stelea


fullname = Bogdan Gheorghe Stelea
height = Height|m=1.88
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1967|12|5
cityofbirth = Bucharest
countryofbirth = Romania
currentclub = FC Braşov
clubcrest =
clubnumber = 1
position = Goalkeeper
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1986
1987
1987–1992
1992–1993
1993
1994
1994–1995
1995–1997
1997–2002
2002
2002–2004
2004–2005
2005
2006
2006–2008
2008–
clubs = Dinamo Bucureşti
Politehnica Iaşi
Dinamo Bucureşti
RCD Mallorca
Standard Liège
Rapid Bucureşti
Samsunspor
Steaua Bucureşti
UD Salamanca
Rapid Bucureşti
UD Salamanca
Dinamo Bucureşti
Akratitos
Oţelul Galaţi
Unirea Urziceni
FC Braşov
caps(goals) = 001 (0)
000 (0)
097 (0)
027 (0)
003 (0)
013 (0)
031 (0)
047 (0)
109 (0)
010 (0)
036 (0)
013 (0)
014 (0)
000 (0)
037 (0)
0010 (0)
nationalyears = 1988–2005
nationalteam = Romania
nationalcaps(goals) = 091 (0)
pcupdate = June 22, 2008
ntupdate = August 6, 2007

Bogdan Gheorghe Stelea (born 5 December, 1967) is a Romanian football goalkeeper. He was born in Bucharest and started his career with Dinamo Bucureşti. He then spent large parts of his career in Spain.

Club career

Bogdan Stelea started playing football at Dinamo Bucharest in 1988 as a substitute goalkeeper and after 2 years became the first goalkeeper in his team, played in 37 games.

In 1992 after he won the champion title with Dinamo he was transferred to RCD Mallorca for $650.000. After 2 seasons in Spain he went in Belgium to Standard Liege but played only in 3 games so he came back in Romania to Rapid Bucharest for a year.

After one season in Turkey to Samsunspor he returned one more time in Romania to the champion team Steaua Bucharest and won 2 titles with them and participated for 2 times in UEFA Champions League.

In 1997 Bogdan Stelea was transferred to UD Salamanca in Spain and stayed there 7 seasons between 1997-2002 and 2002-2004 with a new come back in Romania to Rapid in 2002.

After some games for Dinamo and Akratitos he signed in 2005 for Otelul Galati but didn't play any match because of an bad injury.

In 2006 he signed with Unirea Urziceni at the recommendation of his new couch and former national teammate, Dan Petrescu. He slowly began winning the first place as the goalkepeer for Unirea. In 2008, at the age of 40, he was one of the best goalkepeers in the 2007-08 season in Liga I.

International career

Stelea made his debut for the national team in 1988, and represented his country at the 1990 World Cup, 1994 World Cup, Euro 1996, 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. He has been capped 91 times, the last against Slovakia in 2005.

External links

* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/php/spieler.php?id=5722 Career history] at National Football Teams