Marius Baciu

Marius Baciu

Personal information
Full name	Marius Achim Baciu
Date of birth	(1975-05-01) 1 May 1975
Place of birth	Mediaș, Romania
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992–1993	Inter Sibiu	1	(0)
1993–1994	Gaz Metan Mediaș	24	(0)
1994–1996	Inter Sibiu	56	(1)
1996–2002	Steaua București	140	(8)
2002–2004	Lille	34	(1)
2004–2005	Oberhausen	24	(3)
2005–2006	Panserraikos	14	(0)
2006–2007	Oțelul Galați	36	(2)
2007	Universitatea Cluj	9	(0)
2007–2009	Gaz Metan Mediaș	11	(0)
Total		300	(15)
International career
1996–1997	Romania U-21	5	(0)
Managerial career
2009–2010	Voința Sibiu
2010	Pandurii Târgu Jiu
2010	Unirea Alba Iulia
2011	Silvania Şimleu Silvaniei
2011	Politehnica Iași
2012–2013	SC Bacău
2014–2015	Academica Argeș
2015	Concordia Chiajna
2017	Turris Turnu Măgurele
2017–2019	Daco-Getica București
2019	Turris Turnu Măgurele
2020	Sohar SC
2020–	Al-Taqadom
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marius Achim Baciu (born 1 May 1975 in Mediaș) is a Romanian former player and current football manager of Saudi Arabian club Al-Taqadom.

Club career

Baciu started his career playing as a youth for Gaz Metan Mediaș, before joining the squad of FC Inter Sibiu as a professional player in 1992. One year later he was loaned to his former team Gaz Metan Mediaș, rejoining FC Inter Sibiu in 1994.

In 1996, FC Inter Sibiu was relegated from Liga I, but Baciu, then 21, was signed by Steaua București winning the championship in 1997 and 1998 and the Romanian Cup in 1999. After a new championship in 2001, Baciu refused to renew his contract with Steaua and as a result, he was sent to play for the reserves team. During his years at Steaua, Baciu was also the team's captain.

In 2002, he left Steaua to play in France for Lille OSC but after two mediocre seasons he was released from his contract and signed with the German squad Rot-Weiß Oberhausen as a free agent.

Between 2005 and 2007 he was part of the Oțelul Galați squad. In 2007, Baciu signed a contract with the new promoted U Cluj.

Coaching career

Politehnica Iași

In summer 2011, Baciu signed a two-year contract with Romanian side Politehnica Iași. In August 2011, he was released from his contract. Since he started his coaching career Baciu has achieved great praise for his consistent results specially when taking Vointa Sibiu from second Romanian Division to First Romanian League and keeping the team in the first places in the championship.

While at Concordia Chiajna in 2015, Baciu successfully managed to keep the team away from the relegation in his last season in charge with the team.

Honours

Player

Steaua București

• Romanian Championship League: 1996–97, 1997–98, 2000–01
• Romanian Cup: 1996–97, 1998–99
• Romanian Supercup: 1998, 2001

Gaz Metan Mediaș

• Liga II: 1999–00

External links

• Marius Baciu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)