Cătălin Necula

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Cătălin Răducan Necula (born 4 December 1969) is a Romanian football coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach for UAE Pro League club Sharjah.

Cătălin Necula
Personal information
Full name Cătălin Răducan Necula
Date of birth (1969-12-04) 4 December 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
Sharjah (assistant)
Youth career
0000–1989 Sportul Studențesc
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1993 Sportul Studențesc 77 (1)
1989–1990Sportul 30 Decembrie (loan)
1993–1995 Universitatea Cluj 66 (1)
1995–1998 Național București 91 (2)
1998–1999 Hapoel Kfar Saba 22 (0)
1999–2000 CSM Reșița 24 (0)
2000–2001 Rocar București 10 (0)
2001 Bihor Oradea 10 (1)
2002–2003 Argeș Pitești 25 (0)
2003–2004 Gloria Bistrița 24 (0)
Total 346 (5)
International career
1993 Romania 4 (0)
Managerial career
2004–2005 Național București (assistant)
2005 Național București (caretaker)
2005 Politehnica Timişoara (assistant)
2005–2007 Steaua București (assistant)
2007–2009 Al Hilal (assistant)
2009 Al Hilal (caretaker)
2009–2010 Al Sadd (assistant)
2011 Steaua București (assistant)
2011–2013 Al Ain (assistant)
2013–2017 Al Ahli (assistant)
2018–2021 Jiangsu Suning (assistant)
2021– Sharjah (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

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Necula, son of the famous Romanian goalkeeper Răducanu Necula,[1] started his career at Sportul Studențesc București in 1988. He spent four seasons at Sportul before switching to Universitatea Cluj in 1993.

In 1995, he joined Naţional București and then in 1998 he played for a short while for Hapoel Kfar Saba in Israel. After he returned to Romania, he continued to play for FCM Reşiţa, Rocar București, Bihor Oradea, Argeş Piteşti and Gloria Bistriţa, before retiring from professional football in 2004.

International stats

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Romania
Year Apps Goals
1993 4 0
Total 4 0

Coaching career

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In 2004, Necula returned to Naţional București, this time as assistant coach and then in the autumn of 2005 he was for a short while the team's head coach. When Cosmin Olăroiu took over at Steaua București in the winter of 2005 he asked Necula to join him as assistant manager. Since then, he joined the coaching staff of Cosmin Olăroiu.

Honours

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Player

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Național București

Rocar București

References

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  1. ^ "E OFICIAL: Site Al Hilal: Catalin Necula, antrenorul primei echipe!" [IT'S OFFICIAL: Al Hilal site: Catalin Necula, coach of the first team!] (in Romanian). sport.ro. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
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