Florin Cheran

Florin Cheran

Personal information
Date of birth	(1947-04-05) 5 April 1947 (age 76)
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*
Years	Team	Apps	(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)
Total		346	(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
1985–2000	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]

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]} 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 he contributed with one goal scored in 29 matches, in the second he played 16 games, in the third he made 31 appearances and in the last one he scored 3 goals in 34 matches. ^{[2] [3]} After 11 seasons spent at Dinamo in which he made 284 Divizia A appearances with 8 goals scored and played 23 matches in European competitions, Cheran went to play for the team from his childhood town, Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea for two seasons. ^{[2] [3]} In 1982 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. ^[4] 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] [5]} Florin Cheran has a total of 326 Divizia A appearances in which he scored 8 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. ^{[6] [7]} He played five games at the Euro 1976 qualifiers and four at the 1978 World Cup qualifiers. ^[6] Cheran played three games at the 1973–76 Balkan Cup and three at the successful 1977–80 Balkan Cup. ^[6] He also played 8 matches for Romania's Olympic team. ^[6]

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. ^[4] In 1984 he became the team's head coach, helping it gain promotion to Divizia A. ^[4] Afterwards he went to be Mircea Lucescu's assistant at Dinamo București, where he would spend 15 years, being assistant to all the head coaches the club had during this time. ^[3] 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] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

Honours

Player

Dinamo București

• Divizia A: 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77 ^[2]

Romania

• Balkan Cup: 1977–80, runner-up 1973–76 ^{[6] [13] [14]}

Manager

Dinamo Victoria București

• Divizia B: 1984–85 ^[4]

References

1. Florin Cheran at WorldFootball.net
2. Florin Cheran at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
3. "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. "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.
5. "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.
6. "Florin Cheran". European Football. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
7. "Netherlands - Romania 0:0". European Football. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
8. ""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.
9. "Moldovan the man for Dinamo" (in Romanian). Uefa.com. 12 August 2002. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
10. "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.
11. "Naţionala U19, debut victorios" [The U19 national team, debut with a victory] (in Romanian). Adevarul. 6 October 2006. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
12. "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.
13. "Balkan Cup 1977–80". European Football. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
14. "Balkan Cup 1973–76". European Football. Retrieved 28 June 2021.

External links

• Florin Cheran at National-Football-Teams.com