Sorin Paraschiv

Sorin Paraschiv
	Paraschiv with Volyn Lutsk in 2010
Personal information
Full name	Sorin Ioan Paraschiv
Date of birth	17 June 1981 (age 42)
Place of birth	Alexandria, Romania
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	Foresta Suceava (chairman)
Youth career
1990–1992	CSȘ Alexandria
1992–2000	Steaua București
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2007	Steaua București
2007–2009	Rimini
2009–2010	Unirea Urziceni
2010–2011	Volyn Lutsk
2012	Farul Constanța
2012–2013	Concordia Chiajna
2013–2014	AS Bascov
Total
International career‡
1996–1997	Romania U16
2000–2001	Romania U21
2004–2005	Romania
Managerial career
2017–2018	Voința Turnu Măgurele (sporting director)
2018–2021	Academica Clinceni (sporting director)
2022–2023	Chindia Târgoviște (sporting director)
2023–	Foresta Suceava (chairman)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 09:10, 6 October 2023 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2006

Last updated February 19, 2024

Sorin Ioan Paraschiv (born 17 June 1981) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Steaua București (1999–2007)

After being a member of the Steaua Youth Academy, where Paraschiv started to play football in 1992, aged 11, in 1999, aged 18, he signed his first professional contract with Steaua.

He made his first appearance in Divizia A in 2000, when he was only 19 years old, in a match versus FC Extensiv Craiova won by his team with 3–0.

Even though he only played only 1 game in his first season, Steaua won the championship title that year. Starting from the season 2001–2002 Paraschiv became an essential player for Steaua and because of his performances constantly good he became the vice-captain of the team after Steaua's main leader Mirel Rădoi.

After 3 seasons in which Steaua finished on the second place, Paraschiv and his teammates succeeded to win the champion title in 2 consecutive seasons (2004–2005, 2005–2006).

Even though he only scored eleven times in 139 games Paraschiv has an important place in the coordination of Steaua's play. Sorin Paraschiv played 34 games and he scored three times in the European cups. He debuted in the season 2002–2003 in the qualifiers for UEFA Champions League when Steaua was eliminated by Dynamo Kiev.

He played in 2 other seasons in UEFA Cup but his climbing in the European Cups started in the season 2004–2005 in UEFA Cup. Although Steaua defeated teams like Valencia, the ex-winner of UEFA Cup, Beşiktaş Istanbul and Standard Liège was eliminated in 1/8 finals by Villarreal.

Next season after they were eliminated from UEFA Champions League qualifiers by Rosenborg, Steaua played in UEFA Cup and reached the semifinal phase. They had important victories against Lens, SC Heerenveen, Real Betis and against their rivals from the internal competition, Rapid București in the quarter-final. They were stopped in the semifinal after two dramatic games by Middlesbrough.

In the season 2006–2007 they succeeded to qualify in UEFA Champions League in a group with Real Madrid, Olympique Lyonnais and Dynamo Kiev after they defeated Standard Liège in the qualifiers.

He played at Steaua until 2007, winning three Romanian championships (2000–01, 2004–05, 2005–06) and two Romanian Super Cups.

Rimini Calcio F.C. (2007–2009)

On 4 July 2007 Italian Serie B club Rimini officially announced to have signed him. Paraschiv's contract with Rimini is due to expire in June 2011.^[1]

Unirea Urziceni (2009–2010)

On 30 June 2009 he left Italy and returned to his homeland to sign with Unirea Urziceni.^[2]

International career

For the national team Sorin Paraschiv debuted in 2004 in a game against Andorra, which ended with the Romanians victory (5-1). He also played in another 3 games against Armenia, Ivory Coast and Nigeria but did not score anytime.^[3]

International stats

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Romania
	2004	2	0
	2005	2	0
Total		4	0

Honours

Steaua București^[3]

Unirea Urziceni

Supercupa României runner-up: 2009, 2010

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References

↑ "Gran colpo del Rimini: arriva PARASCHIV !" (in Italian). Rimini Calcio. 4 July 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2007.
↑ Unirea
1 2 Sorin Paraschiv at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)

External links

Sorin Paraschiv at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
Sorin Paraschiv – UEFA competition record ( archive )
Sorin Paraschiv at National-Football-Teams.com
Sorin Paraschiv at Soccerway

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[1] "Gran colpo del Rimini: arriva PARASCHIV !" (in Italian). Rimini Calcio. 4 July 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2007.

[2] Unirea

[RS-3] 1 2 Sorin Paraschiv at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)

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