Global InformationDan Petrescu information
 Petrescu in 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Daniel Vasile Petrescu | ||
| Date of birth | 22 December 1967 | ||
| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Full-back, winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | CFR Cluj (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1977–1986 | Steaua București | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986–1991 | Steaua București | 95 | (28) |
| 1986–1987 | → Olt Scornicești (loan) | 24 | (0) |
| 1991–1993 | Foggia | 55 | (7) |
| 1993–1994 | Genoa | 24 | (1) |
| 1994–1995 | Sheffield Wednesday | 37 | (3) |
| 1995–2000 | Chelsea | 150 | (17) |
| 2000 | Bradford City | 17 | (1) |
| 2001–2002 | Southampton | 11 | (2) |
| 2002–2003 | Național București | 20 | (0) |
| Total | 433 | (59) | |
| International career | |||
| 1989–2000[2] | Romania | 95 | (12) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2002–2003 | Național București (player/assistant) | ||
| 2003 | Sportul Studențesc | ||
| 2003–2004 | Rapid București | ||
| 2004–2005 | Sportul Studențesc | ||
| 2005–2006 | Wisła Kraków | ||
| 2006–2009 | Unirea Urziceni | ||
| 2009–2012 | Kuban Krasnodar | ||
| 2012–2014 | Dynamo Moscow | ||
| 2014 | Al-Arabi | ||
| 2015 | ASA Târgu Mureș | ||
| 2015–2016 | Jiangsu Suning | ||
| 2016 | Kuban Krasnodar | ||
| 2016–2017 | Al-Nasr | ||
| 2017–2018 | CFR Cluj | ||
| 2018–2019 | Guizhou Hengfeng | ||
| 2019–2020 | CFR Cluj | ||
| 2021 | Kayserispor | ||
| 2021–2023 | CFR Cluj | ||
| 2023–2024 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | ||
| 2024– | CFR Cluj | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Daniel Vasile Petrescu (Romanian pronunciation: [daniˈel vaˈsile peˈtresku]; born 22 December 1967) is a Romanian football manager and former player who is currently in charge of Liga I club CFR Cluj.
As a player, Petrescu was deployed as a full-back or a winger and began his career at Steaua București, with which he played in the 1989 European Cup final. Abroad, he represented Serie A clubs Foggia and Genoa, before moving to the Premier League where he played for Sheffield Wednesday, Chelsea, Bradford City, and Southampton, respectively. With Chelsea, Petrescu won the 1998 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. He earned 95 caps for the Romania national team, being selected in two World Cup squads, in 1994 and 1998, and in two European Championships, in 1996 and 2000.
Petrescu became player-assistant manager to Walter Zenga at Național București towards the end of his playing career,[3] and has since had an extensive career as a head coach in Poland, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, China, Turkey, and South Korea, in addition to his native country. His first job was at Sportul Studențesc, which he led to Liga I promotion. Petrescu has won domestic honours with Unirea Urziceni, Kuban Krasnodar, ASA Târgu Mureș, Jiangsu Suning, and CFR Cluj. He is the second-most successful manager in Romania, tied with Emerich Jenei, winning the league on six occasions (five times with CFR Cluj and once with Urziceni),[4] and was also named Romania Coach of the Year a record five times, tied with Mircea Lucescu.
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- ^ "Național unveil Zenga". UEFA. 23 July 2002. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- ^ "Best of the best! Dan Petrescu, la un titlu de recordul absolut + doi jucători-simbol de la CFR Cluj, lângă Lăcătuș, Lucescu sau Tudorel Stoica" [Best of the best! Dan Petrescu, la un titlu de recordul absolut + doi jucători-simbol de la CFR Cluj, lângă Lăcătuș, Lucescu sau Tudorel Stoica] (in Romanian). gsp.ro. 15 May 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2022.