Cosmin Vâtcă

Cosmin Vâtcă
Personal information
Full name Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă
Date of birth (1982-05-12) 12 May 1982
Place of birth Turda, Romania
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
CFR Cluj
Number 12
Youth career
CSŞ Turda
Arieşul Turda
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2005 Bihor Oradea 45 (0)
2006–2007 Oţelul Galaţi 48 (0)
2007–2010 Steaua Bucureşti 0 (0)
2009–2010Gaz Metan Mediaş (loan) 25 (0)
2010–2011 Gaz Metan Mediaş 7 (0)
2012 Rapid București 3 (0)
2012–2014 Viitorul Constanța 21 (0)
2014 Gaz Metan Medias 0 (0)
2014– CFR Cluj 5 (0)
National team
2009– Romania B 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 May 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 April 2009

Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă, (born 12 May 1982, Turda), is a Romanian footballer who plays for CFR Cluj as a goalkeeper.

Club career

Vâtcă began his career in his home town of Turda at CSS Turda. The first important club for which he played was FC Bihor. He made his debut in Liga I (then Divizia A), on 2 May 2004, in a match against Steaua Bucureşti. He signed for €12.000 with Oţelul Galaţi in January 2006. The first match he played for Oţelul Galaţi was the shocking 3-0 away win against Dinamo Bucureşti.

He has the reputation of a good goalkeeper, with very good reflexes who sometimes makes mistakes. In the 2006-2007 season, he made 33 appearances in Liga I for Oțelul Galați, having conceded 54 goals. He joined Steaua Bucureşti in the summer of 2007 for €550,000, but he did not play in any matches during the 2007/2008 season of Liga I. He played in two Romanian Cup matches, against FCM Bacău (4-0) and Unirea Urziceni (0-2).

Oţelul Galaţi wanted to sign him back after the competitional break started. Oţelul Galaţi's goalkeepers, Ismail Kouha, Paulius Grybauskas and Valentin Borş have had some bad evolutions, which made the team's board to turn their attention to Vâtcă. But, the team's president, Marius Stan, dismissed all speculation and said that Oţelul would not buy back Vâtcă. After his contract with Steaua ended, he signed with Gaz Metan Mediaş as a free agent.[1]

In January 2012, he signed a contract for three years with Rapid București.[2]

Honours

Club

CFR Cluj

References

  1. "Vâtcă is a free agent!" (in Romanian). ProSport. Retrieved 2010-06-22.
  2. "Inca o achizitie: Vatca" (in Romanian). fcrapid.ro. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/1/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.