Florin Bratu

Florin Bratu

Bratu in 2010
Personal information
Full name	Florin Daniel Bratu
Date of birth	(1980-01-02) 2 January 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Karmiotissa (head coach)
Youth career
1990–1992	Voința București
1992–2000	Rapid București
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2000–2003	Rapid București	48	(15)
2000–2001	→ Tractorul Brașov (loan)	27	(8)
2003–2004	Galatasaray	25	(6)
2004–2007	Nantes	13	(2)
2005–2006	→ Dinamo București (loan)	23	(6)
2006–2007	→ Valenciennes (loan)	22	(1)
2007–2010	Dinamo București	44	(22)
2010	→ Litex Lovech (loan)	7	(2)
2011–2012	Gaz Metan Mediaş	11	(1)
2012	Gloria Bistrița	9	(1)
Total		229	(64)
International career
2001–2002	Romania U21	3	(2)
2003–2008	Romania	15	(2)
Managerial career
2014–2015	Dinamo II București
2015–2016	Tunari
2016–2017	Dinamo București U19
2017–2018	Romania U18
2018	Dinamo București
2018–2019	Aerostar Bacău
2019	Turris Turnu Măgurele
2020	Concordia Chiajna
2021–2022	Romania U21
2023–	Karmiotissa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Florin Daniel Bratu (born 2 January 1980) is a Romanian football coach and former player, who played as forward, who is currently in charge of Cypriot First Division club Karmiotissa.

Club career

Bratu began his career with Rapid Bucharest, but shortly after joining the first team, he was loaned to Tractorul Brașov in 2000. At Tractorul he scored eight goals in 27 Divizia B games, before returning to Rapid Bucharest. ^[1] In the 2002–03 season he won the Divizia A title with Rapid, being the team's top-goalscorer with 11 goals. ^{[1] [2]}

In 2003, Turkish club Galatasaray announced that they had reached an agreement with Rapid for the transfer of Bratu with the player agreeing to a four-year deal and Galatasaray paying Rapid $2,75 million. ^[3] In the 2007–08 season he was signed by Dinamo București from Nantes Atlantique and formed a couple in Dinamo's offence with Ionel Dănciulescu. The Romanian press called them "BD in action", a nickname inspired from the first letters of their family name and the Romanian movie "BD in action". ^{[4] [5] [6]} In the summer of 2010 Bratu joined Litex Lovech on loan where he stayed until December of the same year. ^[7] In January 2011, he signed for Liga I team Gaz Metan Mediaș. ^[8] He played only 11 games for Gaz Metan, seven of them from the first minute and four as a substitute, and scored a goal, in August 2011, against Voința Sibiu. ^{[1] [9]}

In summer of 2012, Bratu signed a one-year contract with Gloria Bistrița, where he spent a few months before announcing his retirement. ^{[1] [10]}

International career

Bratu played 14 games and scored two goals at international level for Romania, making his debut on 12 February 2003 when coach Anghel Iordănescu sent him on the field in order to replace Adrian Mutu in the 90+2 minute of a friendly against Slovakia which ended with a 2–1 victory. ^{[11] [12]} He scored his first goal in a friendly which ended with a 1–0 victory against Lithuania. ^{[11] [13]} Bratu played four games and scored one goal in a 4–0 victory against Luxembourg at the Euro 2004 qualifiers. ^{[11] [14]} He also played in one game at the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, one at the Euro 2008 qualifiers and two at the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. ^[11]

International stats

Romania national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2003	9	2
2004	2	0
2005	0	0
2006	0	0
2007	1	0
2008	3	0
Total	15	2

International goals

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bratu goal. ^[11]

List of international goals scored by Florin Bratu

#	Date	Venue	Cap	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	30 April 2003	Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas, Lithuania	3	Lithuania	1–0	1–0	Friendly
2	6 September 2003	Stadionul Astra, Ploiești, Romania	5	Luxembourg	4–0	4–0	Euro 2004 qualifiers

After retirement

Since retiring from football in the middle of the 2012–13 season, Bratu has gone into punditry and worked for a while as a commentator for Digi Sport (Romania).

In March 2014, Bratu became the head of the scouting department at his former club Dinamo București. ^[15]

Coaching career

In August 2014, Bratu started his coaching career as head coach of the second team at Dinamo II București. ^[16] On 25 February 2018, he was appointed head coach of Dinamo București. ^[17] He was sacked in September 2018. ^[18]

On 9 August 2021, he was named the head coach of Romania U-21. ^[19]

Managerial statistics

As of 23 May 2023 ^{[20] [21]}

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Dinamo II București	20 August 2014	14 June 2015	27	14	2	11	48	43	+5	051.85
CS Tunari	13 July 2015	6 July 2016	25	5	5	15	33	55	−22	020.00
Romania U18	12 July 2017	28 January 2018	5	0	3	2	4	7	−3	000.00
Dinamo București	25 February 2018	23 September 2018	24	14	2	8	41	28	+13	058.33
Aerostar Bacău	17 October 2018	6 May 2019	21	7	3	11	38	33	+5	033.33
Turris Turnu Măgurele	3 October 2019	22 October 2019	4	1	1	2	5	6	−1	025.00
Concordia Chiajna	8 January 2020	6 November 2020	14	5	3	6	23	22	+1	035.71
Romania U21	9 August 2021	15 August 2022	8	2	2	4	12	17	−5	025.00
Karmiotissa	25 March 2023	Present	9	5	1	3	10	9	+1	055.56
Total			137	53	22	62	214	220	−6	038.69

Honours

Rapid București

• Divizia A: 2002–03 ^{[1] [2]}
• Cupa României: 2001–02 ^[1]
• Supercupa României: 2002, 2003 ^[1]

Dinamo București

• Supercupa României: 2005 ^[1]

Litex Lovech

• Bulgarian Supercup: 2010 ^[1]

References

1. Florin Bratu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
2. "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
3. "Gazeta Sporturilor vă prezintă sumele şi tranzacţiile reale în cele 12 transferuri instrumentate de DNA: "Căpu$ele de milioane"" [Gazeta Sportulor presents the real amounts and transactions in the 12 transfers instrumented by DNA: "Million heads"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 5 January 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
4. "Talnar: "A intrat in actiune BD"" [Talnar: "BD came into action"] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 23 February 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
5. "BD in actiune si Clujul aproape campioana! Se pregateste statuia spartanului necunoscut!" [BD in action and Cluj almost champion! The statue of the unknown Spartan is being prepared!] (in Romanian). Sport.ro. 5 May 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
6. "BD în acţiune! Din nou. Bratu – Dănciulescu au trecut la munca de birou. Gazeta Sporturilor îţi prezintă locul de muncă al noilor şefi" [BD in action! Again. Bratu – Dănciulescu went to office work. Gazeta Sportulor presents you the job of the new bosses] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
7. Nikolov, Ivan (2 June 2010). "Брату – бомба със закъснител" (in Bulgarian). 7sport.net. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
8. "Florin Bratu a semnat cu Gaz Metan Medias! A plecat însă Vîtcă la Lankaran" [Florin Bratu signed with Gaz Metan Medias! But Vitca went to Lankaran] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
9. "Bratu e convins de calificare: "Dau gol și cu austriecii"" [Bratu is convinced of the qualification: "I will also score with the Austrians"] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 24 August 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
10. "Florin Bratu a semnat cu Bistrița. "Am de luat o revanșă față de mine"" [Florin Bratu signed with Bistrița. "I have to take revenge on myself"] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 6 July 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
11. "Florin Bratu". European Football. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
12. "Romania – Slovakia 2:1". European Football. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
13. "Lithuania – Romania 0:1". European Football. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
14. "Romania – Luxembourg 4:0". European Football. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
15. "Florin Bratu s-a intors la Dinamo" (in Romanian). LPF.ro. 12 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
16. "Florin Bratu, antrenor principal la FC Dinamo II București" (in Romanian). fcdinamo.ro. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
17. "El e alesul! Dinamo și-a găsit antrenor: un mare dinamovist a semnat contractul în această seară" (in Romanian). gsp.ro. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
18. Apostol, Eduard; Gafiuc, Justin; Vrînceanu, Victor (23 September 2018). "GALERIE FOTO OFICIAL Niculescu a semnat cu Dinamo! Staff-ul noului antrenor, detaliile contractului, imagini de la RIN". Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). Retrieved 1 October 2018.
19. Visu, Andreea (9 August 2021). "Florin Bratu îl înlocuiește pe Adrian Mutu pe banca României U21". ProSport (in Romanian). Retrieved 10 August 2021.
20. "Florin Bratu, prezentat oficial la Dinamo: "Disciplină, respect reciproc, atitudine!"" (in Romanian). Digi Sport. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
21. Florin Bratu at Soccerway

External links

• Florin Bratu at WorldFootball.net
• Florin Bratu at L'Équipe Football (in French)