Marian Aliuţă

Marian Aliuţă

Personal information
Full name	Marian Aliuţă
Date of birth	3 February 1978 (1978-02-03) (age 33)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1995–1997	Steaua Bucureşti	0	(0)
1995–1996	→ Steaua Mizil (loan)	14	(4)
1996–1997	→ Chindia Târgovişte (loan)	17	(2)
1997	→ Gloria Bistriţa (loan)	12	(0)
1997–1998	Farul Constanţa	25	(2)
1998–2000	Sheriff Tiraspol	26	(3)
2000–2002	Shakhtar Donetsk	47	(1)
2002–2004	Steaua Bucureşti	50	(5)
2004–2005	Rapid Bucureşti	10	(1)
2005	Chunnam Dragons	0	(0)
2005–2006	Metalurh Donetsk	23	(2)
2006	Changchun Yatai	13	(1)
2006–2007	Iraklis Thessaloniki	10	(1)
2007–2008	Politehnica Timişoara	24	(1)
2008	FC Vaslui	11	(0)
2009–2010	Neftchi Baku	25	(3)
Total		307	(26)
National team‡
2001–2008	Romania	5	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 May 2010. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 September 2008

Marian Aliuţă (born 3 February 1978 in Bucharest) is a former Romanian football player.

Aliuţă started to play football at Steaua Bucureşti and as soon as he reached the age of 18 is loaned to Steaua Mizil and then to Chindia Târgovişte and Gloria Bistriţa. Released from him contract with Steaua Bucureşti, Aliuţă signed with FC Farul Constanţa in 1997 and then with Sheriff Tiraspol one year later.

1999 finds him in Ukraine, playing for Shakhtar Donetsk from where he returned to Romania in 2002 to finally make his debut for Steaua Bucureşti, at that time being, with USD135,000 the highest paid footballer from Divizia A. Despite being voted as The Best Player of Divizia A at the end of 2002-03 season, Aliuţă leaves Steaua Bucureşti after an altercation with the club's Chief Executive Mihai Stoica. Rapid Bucharest is his next club, which he left after only few weeks to play in Korea for Chunnam Dragons and then in the 2005-06 season he played for FC Metalurg Donetsk. In November 2006 he signed a two-year contract with Iraklis Thessaloniki.^[1] After a 1-year spell in Greece, he returned to Romania where he signed for FC Timişoara, a club with a huge fan base. In the summer of 2008 he moved to UEFA Cup contenders FC Vaslui. But after only 11 games he had a dispute with the club's powerful owner, Adrian Porumboiu and was given a free transfer. In the beginning of 2009 Marian Aliuta signed for the Azerbaijan club Neftchi Baku, joining his long-time friend Adrian Neaga.

Career Honours

FC Vaslui

• UEFA Intertoto Cup
  • Winner: 2008

References

1. ^ "Stats Centre: Marian Aliuţă Facts". Guardian.co.uk. http://guardian.touch-line.com/StatsCentre.asp?CTID=24&CPID=96&TEID=7379&PLID=79985&pStr=Player. Retrieved 2009-10-23. 

External links

• Marian Aliuţă at National-Football-Teams.com

Persondata
Name	Aliuta, Marian
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	3 February 1978
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Date of death
Place of death