Dorin Goga

Dorin Goga

Personal information
Full name	Dorin Ioan Goga
Date of birth	2 July 1984 (1984-07-02) (age 27)
Place of birth	Zalău, Romania
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Poli Timişoara
Number	21
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2003–2008	Universitatea Cluj	120	(33)
2008–	Politehnica Timişoara	88	(29)
National team‡
2011–	Romania	0	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:35, 5 November 2011 (UTC+1). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16:35, 3 September 2011 (UTC+1)

Dorin Ioan Goga (born 2 July 1984) is a Romanian footballer currently under contract with FC Timişoara.

Club career

Early career

Goga began his youth career at Universitatea Cluj he mainly played there as winger in the beginning.

Univeristatea Cluj

Goga was promoted to first team in the summer of 2003 when U Cluj was in 2nd league. He scored a goal helping them promote to the First League after years of absence. Before achieving promotion to Liga I with U Cluj, he had not received much attention, however, after several great matches in a horrendous half-season for the team, has shown interest from clubs like FC Timişoara, who offered €1,000,000 and 12 players in exchange for the talented striker's services. The offer was rejected, and Goga remained at the club at least until the end of the 2007–08 season. At the end of the season 2007–2008, he finally signed a contract with FC Timişoara.

Politehnica Timişoara

On 2008, Goga signed with Poli. He was the goalscorer for Poli in Europa League scoring two goals, against Ajax and Dinamo Zagreb. On 22 September he scored one goal in a 3–1 victory in the Romanian Cup against Juventus Bucureşti. After a disastrous start of the season, scoring only one goal in thirteen rounds, he scored the winning goal in the 69th minute in 2–1 victory against FC Vaslui.^[1] On 26 February 2011, Goga scored the equalizer against Gaz Metan Mediaş in a 3–1 win.^[2] It was his third goal in Liga 1 this season. Dorin scored a fantastic goal in a 4–0 demolition of Universitatea Craiova. He scored again against Victoria Brăneşti and it seems that Dušan Uhrin, Jr. reinvent himself again.^[3]

References

1. ^ "Poli - Vaslui 2-1". Politehnica Timişoara. 6 November 2010. http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/stiri/21285/etapa-14-fc-timisoara--fc-vaslui-2-1.htm. 
2. ^ "Poli - Gaz Metan 3-1". Politehnica Timişoara. http://www.poli.tm.ro/fcpt/stire.php?id=191. Retrieved 26 February 2011. 
3. ^ "The Poet is Back". RomanianSoccer. http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/stiri/23288/etapa-22-victoria-branesti--timisoara-0-2.htm. Retrieved 19 March 2011. 

External links

• FCPTM profile (Romanian)
• Profile of Dorin Goga at RomanianSoccer.ro
• UEFA Profile

Romanian football portal

Persondata
Name	Goga, Dorin
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	2 July 1984
Place of birth	Zalău, Romania
Date of death
Place of death