| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 15 August 1967 [1] | ||
| Place of birth | Sibiu, Romania [1] | ||
| Position(s) | Striker [1] | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Inter Sibiu | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (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) |
| Total | 291 | (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]
Predatu was born on 15 August 1967 in Sibiu, Romania and began 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 and a half years. [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. [1] [4] [5] Among these were four in a 5–0 win against Rapid București which earned him the nickname "Ïl Principe", and he also became a fan-favorite, the team's gallery chanting:Marius Predatu, va băga patru(Marius Predatu, will give four). [6] [7] In the following two seasons he appeared and scored regularly for "U". [1] [4] Subsequently, he went 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]
In 1997, Predatu returned for a short while at Universitatea Cluj, but spent the rest of the season at Gloria Bistrița. [1] [4] Afterwards he went for a third spell at "U" Cluj, staying two seasons. [1] [4] Then 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, Predatu played for the last time for Universitatea Cluj, on this occasion in Divizia C, under player-coach Ioan Sabău, helping the team win promotion to Divizia B. [4] [9]
Predatu played one game for Romania, when on 14 April 1993, coach Cornel Dinu sent him in the 64th minute to replace Gheorghe Ceaușilă in a 2–1 victory against Cyprus in the 1994 World Cup qualifiers. [10]
After he ended his playing career, Predatu worked as a youth coach for Universitatea Cluj. [6] He coached the senior side of Arieșul Mihai Viteazu in the 2021–22 Liga IV season, but resigned after a loss in the first round. [11]
Universitatea Cluj