Marius Predatu

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Marius Predatu
Personal information
Date of birth (1967-08-15) 15 August 1967 (age 56) [1]
Place of birth Sibiu, Romania [1]
Position(s) Striker [1]
Youth career
Inter Sibiu
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1989–1990 Inter Sibiu 40 (6)
1991–1992 Argeș Pitești 36 (3)
1992–1995 Universitatea Cluj 94 (36)
1995–1996 Panionios 28 (8)
1996 Universitatea Cluj 7 (2)
1997 Gloria Bistrița 20 (10)
1997–1999 Universitatea Cluj 40 (7)
1999–2000 Gloria Bistrița 16 (3)
2000–2001 Universitatea Cluj 10 (3)
Total291(78)
International career
1993 Romania 1 (0)
Managerial career
2021 Arieșul Mihai Viteazu
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marius Predatu (born 15 August 1967) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a striker. [2] [3]

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Club career

Marius Predatu was born on 15 August 1967 in Sibiu, Romania and started playing junior level football at local club, Inter. [1] [4] In the 1989–90 season he started his senior career, playing 26 Divizia A games in which he scored six goals for Inter. [1] In the middle of the following season he went to play for Argeș Pitești for one year and a half. [1]

In 1992 he signed with Universitatea Cluj where in his first season under the guidance of coach Remus Vlad he scored a personal record of 14 goals, including four in a 5–0 with Rapid București which earned him the nickname "Ïl Principe", also he would become a fan-favorite, the team's gallery chanting:Marius Predatu, va băga patru(Marius Predatu, will give four). [1] [4] [5] [6] [7] In the following two seasons he appeared and scored regularly for "U", going to play for the 1995–96 season in the Greek first league at Panionios, alongside fellow Romanians Marian Ivan and coach Emerich Jenei, scoring eight goals in 28 matches. [1] [4] [8] [9] [10]

In 1997 he returned for a short while at Universitatea Cluj, then playing for the rest of the season at Gloria Bistrița. [1] [4] Afterwards he went for a third spell at "U" Cluj, staying two seasons before he signed for a second spell at Bistrița where he stayed one year, making his last Divizia A appearances, having a total of 253 games with 67 goals in the competition. [1] [4]

In the 2000–01 season, he played for the last time for Universitatea Cluj, this time in Divizia C, under the guidance of player-coach Ioan Sabău, helping the team win promotion to Divizia B. [4] [11]

International career

Marius Predatu played one game at international level for Romania, being used by coach Cornel Dinu to replace Gheorghe Ceaușilă in the 64th minute of a 2–1 victory against Cyprus at the 1994 World Cup qualifiers. [12] [13]

Coaching career

After he ended his playing career, Predatu worked as a youth coach at Universitatea Cluj and coached the senior side of Arieșul Mihai Viteazu in the 2021–22 Liga IV season, however he resigned after a loss in the first round. [5] [14] [15] [16]

Honours

Universitatea Cluj

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  2. ↑ "Bagiu, Meszaros şi Predatu revin pe teren" [Bagiu, Meszaros and Predatu return to the field] (in Romanian). Liga2.prosport.ro. 18 May 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
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  6. ↑ "Un nou "Prinț" la națională! După aproape 2 decenii, selecționerul contează pe un jucător de la "U" Cluj" [A new "Prince" at the national team! After almost 2 decades, the national team is counting on a player from "U" Cluj] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
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  8. ↑ "Foreign Players in Greece since 1959/60". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  9. ↑ "Greece 1995/96". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  10. ↑ "Panionios Neas Smyrnis in 1995/96". National-football-teams.com.
  11. 1 2 "Universitatea Cluj 2000–01 season" (in Romanian). 4everucluj.ro.
  12. ↑ "Marius Predatu". European Football. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  13. ↑ "Romania - Cyprus 2:1". European Football. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  14. ↑ "Video. Splendoare în iarbă, la Baza Sportivă Mihai Viteazu" [Video. Splendor in the grass, at the Mihai Viteazu Sports Base] (in Romanian). Ziarul21.ro. 4 July 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  15. ↑ "Prima "victimă" a Ligii a IV-a, după doar o etapă! Vezi declarația EXCLUSIVĂ a antrenorului, Marius Predatu, după ce a plecat de la Arieșul Mihai Viteazu" [The first "victim" of Liga IV, after only one stage! See the EXCLUSIVE statement of the coach, Marius Predatu, after he left Ariesul Mihai Viteazu] (in Romanian). Refleqtmedia.ro. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  16. ↑ "Fotbal, Liga IV: Marius Predatu nu mai este antrenorul celor de la Arieșul Mihai Viteazu" [Football, Liga IV: Marius Predatu is no longer the coach of Ariesul Mihai Viteazu] (in Romanian). Turdanews.net. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
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