Ovidiu Burcă

Ovidiu Burcă

Burcă warming up before a game
Personal information
Full name	Ovidiu Nicușor Burcă
Date of birth	(1980-03-16) 16 March 1980
Place of birth	Slatina, Romania
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Team information
Current team	Rapid Bucureşti (President)
Youth career
1996–1998	Football School Gică Popescu
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–1999	Emelec	6	(0)
2000	JEF United Ichihara	4	(0)
2000	Ventforet Kofu	16	(1)
2001–2002	Universitatea Craiova	25	(0)
2002–2005	Dinamo București	46	(0)
2005–2007	Național București	39	(2)
2007–2010	Energie Cottbus	40	(0)
2008	→ Beijing Guoan (loan)	15	(1)
2010–2011	Politehnica Timișoara	20	(0)
2011–2012	Rapid București	10	(1)
Total		221	(5)
International career
2001	Romania U–21	4	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ovidiu Burcă (born 16 March 1980 in Slatina) is a former Romanian football defender.

Club career

Early career

Burcă began his youth career at Football School Gică Popescu.

Emelec

He began his professional career in Ecuador at Club Sport Emelec in the Primera Categoría Serie A league making six appearances.

JEF United Ichihara

A year later he got noticed by the Japanese club JEF United Ichihara and signed with them. He played there only four matches and impressed the scouts of Ventforet Kofu and he was transferred immediately.

Ventforet Kofu

Burcă played sixteen matches and scored one goal for Ventforet.

Universitatea Craiova

After a year in Ecuador and near two years in Japan, Burcă returned to Romania to play for FC Universitatea Craiova a total of 25 matches, which impressed FC Dinamo București who signed him.

Dinamo București

He won with them the Romanian League during the 2003–04 season. After spending three years with Dinamo, Burcă signed a one-and-a-half-year and contract with FC Național.

Energie Cottbus

In June 2007, Bundesliga side Energie Cottbus announced signing him a three-year contract deal. However, in his first Bundesliga season at the club he did not make any appearance due a serious injury, which resulted a year break in the 2007–08 season. Burcă was one of the key players at Cottbus and they named him as captain in 2009. He was loaned out in 2008 to Chinese club Beijing Guoan.

Politehnica Timișoara

After his contract expired with the German side, Burcă signed a one-year contract with FC Politehnica Timișoara returning to Liga 1 after three years. He was handed the number 25 shirt. He made his debut in a Europa League play-off against Manchester City in a 2–0 loss.

Honours

Club

Dinamo Bucharest

• Romanian League: 2003–04
• Romanian Cup: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05
• Romanian Supercup:2004-05

External links

• Ovidiu Burcă at romaniansoccer.ro
• Ovidiu Burcă at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Ovidiu Burcă at worldfootball.net