Cornel Buta

Cornel Buta

Personal information
Date of birth	(1977-11-01) 1 November 1977
Place of birth	Vaslui, Romania
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Right back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–1999	FC Brașov	88	(6)
2000	Dinamo București	9	(3)
2000–2004	Rapid București	25	(0)
2001	→ FC Brașov (loan)	26	(0)
2003	→ Naţional București (loan)	21	(0)
2004–2005	Volyn Lutsk	42	(4)
2006	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	12	(1)
2006–2010	Politehnica Iaşi	105	(3)
2010–2011	Volyn Lutsk	20	(1)
Total		348	(18)
International career‡
2000	Romania	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 November 2010 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 August 2008

Cornel Buta (born 1 November 1977) is a Romanian retired footballer. He played as a right back and occasionally as a libero.

Club career

He started his professional career at FC Brașov, playing in the first two football leagues in Romania. After three and a half seasons he transferred to Dinamo București as a replacement for Cosmin Contra, who moved to Deportivo Alavés earlier. He stayed only a few months, however, and at the beginning of the next season he moved to Rapid București, where he still could not confirm. As a result, he returned to FC Braşov, where he played for another season and a half.

After further spells at Rapid, twice, and FC Naţional, Buta played in Ukraine, at FC Volyn Lutsk, before returning in Romania, at Pandurii Târgu-Jiu. After a full season played, his next club would be Politehnica Iaşi, moving there as a free agent.

In his career, he won 4 trophies: Divizia A in 2000 with Dinamo, the Romanian Cup in 2000 with Dinamo and in 2002 with Rapid, and the Romanian Supercup in 2002 with Rapid

Honours

FC Braşov

• Liga II: 1998–99

Dinamo București

• Liga I: 1999–00
• Romanian Cup: 1999–00

Rapid București

• Liga I: 2002–03
• Romanian Cup: 2001–02
• Supercupa României: 2002, 2003

External links

• Cornel Buta at National-Football-Teams.com
• Cornel Buta at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
• Cornel Buta at WorldFootball.net
• Cornel Buta at Soccerway
• Cornel Buta at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)