Cosmin Vâtcă
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă | ||
| Date of birth | 12 May 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Turda, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| CSȘ Turda | |||
| Școala de Fotbal Ștefan Kovács | |||
| Viitorul Oradea | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2005 | Bihor Oradea | 45 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Oțelul Galați | 48 | (0) |
| 2007–2010 | Steaua București | 0 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | → Gaz Metan Mediaș (loan) | 25 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Gaz Metan Mediaș | 7 | (0) |
| 2012 | Rapid București | 3 | (0) |
| 2012–2014 | Viitorul Constanța | 21 | (0) |
| 2014 | Gaz Metan Mediaș | 0 | (0) |
| 2014–2018 | CFR Cluj | 21 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | Voluntari | 28 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | CFR Cluj | 4 | (0) |
| 2020 | Universitatea Cluj | 3 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | 1599 Șelimbăr | 7 | (0) |
| Total | 212 | (0) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2023–2024 | Voința Sibiu | ||
| 2024 | Mediaș | ||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 08:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 April 2009 | |||
Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă (born 12 May 1982), is a Romanian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.[1]
Club career
[edit]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 București. He signed for €12,000 with Oțelul Galați in January 2006. The first match he played for Oțelul Galați was the shocking 3–0 away win against Dinamo București.
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 București 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).
Oțelul Galați wanted to sign him back after the competitional break started. Oțelul Galați's goalkeepers, Ismail Kouha, Paulius Grybauskas and Valentin Borș 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 Mediaș as a free agent.[2]
In January 2012, he signed a contract for three years with Rapid București.[3]
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- CFR Cluj
Viitorul Șelimbăr
References
[edit]- ^ 5 TRANSFERURI LA REUNIRE!. cfr1907.ro (in Romanian)
- ^ "Vâtcă is a free agent!" (in Romanian). ProSport. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
- ^ "Inca o achizitie: Vatca" (in Romanian). fcrapid.ro. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
External links
[edit]- Cosmin Vâtcă at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
- Cosmin Vâtcă at Soccerway
- 1982 births
- Living people
- People from Turda
- Romanian men's footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- ACS Sticla Arieșul Turda players
- Liga I players
- FC Bihor Oradea (1958) players
- ASC Oțelul Galați players
- FCSB players
- FCSB II players
- CS Gaz Metan Mediaș players
- FC Rapid București players
- FC Viitorul Constanța players
- CFR Cluj players
- FC Voluntari players
- FC Universitatea Cluj players
- CSC 1599 Șelimbăr players
- Footballers from Cluj County
- Romanian football managers
- 21st-century Romanian sportsmen