Cosmin Vâtcă

Cosmin Vâtcă
Personal information
Full name	Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă
Date of birth	12 May 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Turda, Romania
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	CFR Cluj
Number	12
Youth career
	CSŞ Turda
	Arieşul Turda
Senior career*
Years	Team
2001–2005	Bihor Oradea
2006–2007	Oţelul Galaţi
2007–2010	Steaua Bucureşti
2009–2010	→ Gaz Metan Mediaş (loan)
2010–2011	Gaz Metan Mediaş
2012	Rapid București
2012–2014	Viitorul Constanța
2014	Gaz Metan Medias
2014–	CFR Cluj
International career‡
2009–	Romania B
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 May 2016; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 April 2009

Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă, (born 12 May 1982, Turda), is a Romanian footballer who plays for CFR Cluj as a goalkeeper.

Club career

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 Bucureşti. He signed for €12.000 with Oţelul Galaţi in January 2006. The first match he played for Oţelul Galaţi was the shocking 3-0 away win against Dinamo Bucureşti.

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 Bucureşti 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).

Oţelul Galaţi wanted to sign him back after the competitional break started. Oţelul Galaţi's goalkeepers, Ismail Kouha, Paulius Grybauskas and Valentin Borş 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 Mediaş as a free agent.^[1]

In January 2012, he signed a contract for three years with Rapid București.^[2]

Honours

Club

CFR Cluj

Cupa României: 2015–16

References

^ "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 2012-01-28. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

Player profile on RomanianSoccer

[1] "Vâtcă is a free agent!" (in Romanian). ProSport. Retrieved 22 June 2010.

[2] "Inca o achizitie: Vatca" (in Romanian). fcrapid.ro. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-28. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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