Florin Cheran

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Florin Cheran
Personal information
Date of birth (1947-04-05) 5 April 1947 (age 77)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1962–1965 Unirea Râmnicu Vâlcea
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1967–1969 Electronica București 20 (0)
1969–1980 Dinamo București 284 (8)
1980–1982 Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea 41 (0)
1982–1984 Dinamo Victoria București
1986 Dinamo București 1 (0)
Total346(8)
International career‡
1971–1976 Romania Olympic 8 (0)
1974–1978 Romania 29 (0)
Managerial career
1982–1984 Dinamo Victoria București (assistant)
1984–1985 Dinamo Victoria București
1985 Dinamo București (assistant)
1985 Dinamo București (caretaker)
1985–2000 Dinamo București (assistant)
2000 Romania U21 (assistant)
2001 Romania (assistant)
2002 Dinamo București (assistant)
2009–2010 Romania U17
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 December 2019
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 December 2019

Florin Cheran (born 5 April 1947) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a defender. [1]

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Club career

Florin Cheran was born on 5 April 1947 in Bucharest but spent his childhood in Râmnicu Vâlcea where he played football at junior level at local club, Unirea Râmnicu Vâlcea, also during that period he practiced athletics and volleyball, being national champion at the child level long jump. [2] [3] He started to play football at senior level at Divizia B club, Electronica București. [2] [3]

In 1969, Cheran went to play for Dinamo București, making his Divizia A debut on 16 August 1969, under coach Traian Ionescu in a 5–2 victory against Jiul Petroșani. [2] [3] He won four Divizia A titles with The Red Dogs , in the first under the guidance of Nicolae Dumitru and Ionescu he contributed with one goal scored in 29 matches, in the second Ion Nunweiller used him in 16 games, in the third Nicolae Dumitru sent him on the field 31 times and in the fourth he worked with Ion Nunweiller again, scoring three goals in 34 matches. [2] [3] [4] He also played 23 matches in European competitions with The Red Dogs , earning historical victories in the European Cup against Madrid giants Real and Atlético, however on both occasions the team did not get pass further in the competition as the aggregate result was in favor of the Spaniards. [2] [3] [5] [6] For the way he played in 1976, Cheran was placed fifth in the ranking for the Romanian Footballer of the Year award. [7]

In 1980, Cheran went to play for the team from his childhood town, Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea for two seasons. [2] [3] [4] Afterwards he returned in Divizia B at the club where he started his senior career, which this time was named Dinamo Victoria București where he was also an assistant coach. [8] In the 1985–86 season he became Mircea Lucescu's assistant at Dinamo, also playing one game in Divizia A, which was his last, a 2–0 victory against Bihor Oradea on 8 June 1986 in which he replaced Iulian Mihăescu in the 74th minute because the team had a squad problem in that period. [2] [3] [9] Florin Cheran has a total of 326 Divizia A appearances in which he scored eight goals. [2]

International career

Florin Cheran played 29 matches at international level for Romania, making his debut under coach Valentin Stănescu on 5 June 1974 in a friendly which ended 0–0 against Netherlands. [10] [11] He played five games at the Euro 1976 qualifiers and four at the 1978 World Cup qualifiers. [10] Cheran played three games at the 1973–76 Balkan Cup and three at the successful 1977–80 Balkan Cup. [10] He also played eight matches for Romania's Olympic team. [10]

Managerial career

Florin Cheran started his managerial career while still being an active player, being Constantin Teașcă’s assistant at Dinamo Victoria București from 1982 until 1984. [8] In 1984 he became the team's head coach, helping it gain promotion to Divizia A. [8] Afterwards he went to be Constantin Cernăianu's assistant at Dinamo București but after Cernăianu left he was caretaker coach for one game, then becoming Mircea Lucescu's assistant, he would go on to spend 15 years, being assistant to all the head coaches the club had during this time. [3] [12] [13] In 2000 he was Ion Moldovan's assistant at Romania's under 21 national team, afterwards being the assistant of László Bölöni and Gheorghe Hagi at Romania's senior side. [3] In 2002 he was Ion Moldovan's assistant at Dinamo București, afterwards he went to work for the Romanian Football Federation, being the head coach of various junior national team squads over the course of almost 9 years. [3] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

Honours

Player

Dinamo București

Romania

Individual

Manager

Dinamo Victoria București

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References

  1. ↑ Florin Cheran at WorldFootball.net
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Florin Cheran at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Cheran, 11 sezoane de glorie în "Ștefan cel Mare": Mă doare sufletul de cum a ajuns Dinamo. Nici nu mai merg la meciuri!" [Cheran, 11 seasons of glory in "Ștefan cel Mare": My soul hurts when I see what Dinamo had become. I don't even go to matches anymore!] (in Romanian). Pariuri.ro. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  5. ↑ "Florin Cheran. Champions League 1975/1976". WorldFootball. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  6. ↑ "Florin Cheran. Champions League 1977/1978". WorldFootball. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  7. 1 2 "Romania - Player of the Year Awards". Rsssf.org. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Memorialul puterii, episodul 2: Victoria București" [The Memorial of Power, episode 2: Victoria Bucharest] (in Romanian). Wesport.ro. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  9. ↑ "Vezi povestea unui meci special al lui Mircea Lucescu: "Fugi, nea Mircea, fugi!"" [See the story of a special match of Mircea Lucescu: "Run, nea Mircea, run!"] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 27 April 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "Florin Cheran". European Football. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  11. ↑ "Netherlands - Romania 0:0". European Football. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  12. ↑ "Antrenorii echipei Dinamo" [The coaches of Dinamo] (in Romanian). Romaniansoccer.ro. 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  13. ↑ "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1985-86" (in Romanian). Romaniansoccer.ro. 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  14. ↑ ""La Dinamo, obiectivele de performanta nu se discuta"" ["At Dinamo, the performance objectives are not discussed"] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 13 August 2002. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  15. ↑ "Moldovan the man for Dinamo" (in Romanian). Uefa.com. 12 August 2002. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  16. ↑ "Un atacant de culoare joacă la naţionala U15 a României!" [A player of color plays for the U15 national team of Romania!] (in Romanian). Prosport. 10 July 2008. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  17. ↑ "Naţionala U19, debut victorios" [The U19 national team, debut with a victory] (in Romanian). Adevarul. 6 October 2006. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  18. ↑ "Egal contra Bosniei-Herțegovina, în ultimul meci din Turul de elită U17" [Draw against Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the last match in the Elite tour U17] (in Romanian). FRF.ro. 24 March 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  19. ↑ "Balkan Cup 1977–80". European Football. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  20. ↑ "Balkan Cup 1973–76". European Football. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
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