- Mihai Neşu
Football player infobox
playername = Mihai Neşu
fullname = Mihai Mircea Neşu
height = height|m=1.76
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1983|02|19
cityofbirth =Oradea
countryofbirth =Romania
currentclub =FC Utrecht
clubnumber = 3
position = Left Back
youthyears =
youthclubs =Steaua Bucureşti
years = 2001–2008
2008–
clubs =Steaua Bucureşti FC Utrecht
caps(goals) = 086 00(1)
003 00(0)
nationalyears = 2003–2005
2005–
nationalteam = Romania U21
Romania
nationalcaps(goals) = 012 00(0)
005 00(0)
pcupdate =23 August ,2008
ntupdate = September 10, 2008Mihai Mircea Neşu (nickname: „Bişonul”/„The Bichon”), (born
February 19 ,1983 inOradea ) is aRomania n football player, who played his entire career forSteaua Bucureşti .Club career
teaua Bucureşti
*He signed his first professional contract in 2001 with
Steaua Bucureşti and this team remained the only team for which he played in his entire career.*He debuted on
April 21 ,2002 in a game againstPetrolul Ploiesti which was ended 1-1.*In the first two seasons he didn't play too much, only 13 games, and his best performance was the vice-champion title in 2002-2003.
*They succeeded the same performance in the next season when Nesu played more, 13 games.
*In the season 2004-2005 he won his first champion title with Steaua and he succeeded to score his first goal in Divizia A, although he played only 7 games.
*In the next year he played in 19 games and Steaua won for the second consecutive year the title of champion team.
*After Ogararu's transfer to
Ajax Amsterdam , Mihai Nesu won a place in the first "eleven" and now is a basic player for the team.*In the European Cups he played in 20 games but didn't score any game. He debuted in the season 2003-2004 in
UEFA Cup when played 3 games.*After only one European game in 2004-2005 he had in the next season very good results and Nesu played in all four games for the qualifiers in
UEFA Champions League . After this he played in UEFA Cup and succeeded to defeat teams like Lens, Heerenveen,Betis Sevilla andRapid Bucuresti , but they were eliminated in the semi-final by Middlesbrough.*In the season 2006-2007 Steaua with Nesu as a titular player eliminated
Standard Liege and succeeded after 10 years to qualify in UEFA Champions League groups in a group withReal Madrid ,Olympique Lyonnais andDynamo Kiev .*As of
August 23 ,2008 Neşu played 86 games in Liga I ofRomania , scoring once. All the games were played underSteaua 's badge.FC Utrecht
*Neşu completed a transfer deal with FC Utrecht which will see him move to the club on August 27, 2008. He will replace
Erik Pieters who left forPSV in the summer. [http://www.fc-utrecht.nl/actueel/nieuws/1153]International career
*He also won four caps for Romania, his first in 2005, against Ivory Coast.
Titles
Trivia
*Neşu is the son of a famous
Romania n soccerreferee .
*In 1999, aged 16, he was on a trial with the Dutch teamPSV Eindhoven .
*He married Maria Laura Gherman in June 2006.External links
* [http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/players/n/nesu.shtml Mihai Neşu's career @ Romaniansoccer.ro (English)]
* [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/Players/Player=61500/index.html Mihai Neşu's profile @ UEFA.com (English)]
* [http://www.fcutrecht.net Mihai Neşu's in Utrecht(Dutch)]
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