Cornel Buta

Cornel Buta
Personal information
Date of birth	1 November 1977 (age 46)
Place of birth	Găgești, Romania
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Right back
Senior career*
Years	Team
1996–1999	FC Braşov
2000	Dinamo Bucureşti
2000–2004	Rapid Bucureşti
2001	→ FC Braşov (loan)
2003	→ Naţional Bucureşti (loan)
2004–2005	Volyn Lutsk
2006	Pandurii Târgu Jiu
2006–2010	Politehnica Iaşi
2010–2011	Volyn Lutsk
International career‡
2000	Romania
	*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 in Găgești, Vaslui County) is a Romanian retired football player. He played for as a right back and occasionally as a libero.

He started his professional career at FC Braşov, playing in the first two football leagues in Romania. After three and a half seasons he transferred to Dinamo Bucureşti 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 Bucureşti, 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

Romanian Second League: 1998–99

Dinamo Bucureşti

Rapid Bucureşti

External links

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

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