Eugen Trică

Eugen Trică (born 5 August 1976) is a Romanian football manager and former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Eugen Trică
Eugen Trică in August 2009
Personal information
Date of birth (1976-08-05) 5 August 1976
Place of birth Teslui, Romania
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1988–1993 Universitatea Craiova
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1998 Universitatea Craiova 91 (14)
1998–2003 Steaua București 130 (21)
2003–2005 Litex Lovech 54 (22)
2005 Maccabi Tel Aviv 10 (1)
2006–2007 CSKA Sofia 34 (17)
2007–2008 CFR Cluj 46 (15)
2009 Anorthosis 12 (1)
2009 CFR Cluj 1 (0)
2009–2010 Universitatea Craiova 16 (2)
2010–2011 Concordia Chiajna 22 (6)
Total 416 (99)
National team
1996–1998 Romania U21 20 (6)
1999–2007 Romania 4 (0)
Teams managed
2012–2013 Juventus București
2013 CFR Cluj
2013 Al-Nahda (assistant)
2013–2014 UTA Arad
2014 Juventus București
2015 CFR Cluj
2015 Metalul Reșița
2015–2016 Ittihad (assistant)
2017–2018 Politehnica Iași (assistant)
2019 Sportul Snagov
2019–2020 FC U Craiova
2020–2021 Turris Turnu Măgurele
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Trică started his career at Universitatea Craiova as a youth, being promoted in the first team in 1995.

He then joined Steaua București in 1998, winning the championship in 2001.

Litex Lovech was the third club Trică played for, after being transferred in 2003, then after two years he joined the squad of Maccabi Tel Aviv but after only few months he returned to Bulgaria, this time at PFC CSKA Sofia. Trică is one of the highest scoring foreign players in the A PFG with 39 goals to his name.[1]

In May 2007, Trică returned to Romania after he could not agree on a contract with CSKA, signing with CFR Cluj. At Cluj he was part of the team that won for the first time in the club's history the championship and the cup in 2008, playing in Champions League.

He moved in 2009 to Cyprus first division at Anorthosis Famagusta FC, just after the team was eliminated from Champions League group stage. However, after the end of the season, he returned to Cluj.

On 25 August 2009, Eugen Trică signed to the first love FC "U" Craiova.

After a year, in August 2010, he joined Concordia Chiajna, a team from the second Romanian division. Trică helped the group promote to Liga I for the first time in history. After a few games in the first division for Concordia, in October 2011, Trică decided to quit.

International career

He was one of the best players of the national U21 team, but has only four caps for Romania.

Honours

[2]

Player

Manager

Personal life

Trică was married to Lorena, daughter of Ilie Balaci, one of the best Romanian football players from the past.[3] They divorced in 2015.[4]

References
  1. "Топ 20 за чуждестранни футболисти голмайстори". bgfootball.eu. 1 March 2015. Archived from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. "Eugen Trică Player Profile". RomanianSoccer.ro. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  3. "Liana, fata cea mica a lui Ilie Balaci, duce mai departe traditia sportiva a familiei!" [Liana, the little girl of Ilie Balaci, carries on the sporting tradition of the family!] (in Romanian). wowbiz.ro. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  4. Eugen Trică, sprijinul Lorenei, la înmormântarea lui Ilie Balaci. Cei doi au divorţat de trei ani!, spynews.ro, 23 October 2018
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