Pavel Adrian Dulcea (born 25 November 1978) is a
Romanian
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former
striker. Currently he is a manager.
Club career
He started his career in his home town, in the 1995/96 season, at
FC Râmnicu Vâlcea in
Romanian Second League. The oldest know this team by the name
Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea. When he was a youth, after an international tournament played in Naples by his team, he was offered by
Salernitana
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, but his family declined the offer.
After leaving Râmnicu Vâlcea, in 1998, followed a period of almost 10 years spent only with teams from Ardeal. With one exception, the 2001/02 season, where he spent time with the Hungarian teams
Györi and
Siófok
Siófok (; german: Fock; la, Fuk) is a town in Somogy County, Hungary on the southern bank of Lake Balaton. It is the second largest municipality in Somogy County and the seat of Siófok District. It covers an area of about 124.66 km2 (48.1 ...
. This being his only experiences outside of Romanian football. During this entire period of 10 years, he played for teams such as
Gloria Bistrița,
Unirea Dej
Fotbal Club Unirea Dej, commonly known as Unirea Dej, is a Romanian professional football club from Dej, Cluj County, Romania, founded in 1921. They play in the Liga II.
History
It is one of Romania's oldest football teams, although it never ...
,
Olimpia Satu Mare
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,
CFR Cluj
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,
Gaz Metan Mediaș and
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.
His debut in the
Romanian First League was in the 1998/99 season, when he played for Gloria Bistrița. He only played 6 games that season, failing to score a goal. Also in Bistrița, but in his second period at Gloria, he made his debut in the Europe. In the 2000/01 season he played in the
UEFA Intertoto Cup
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against
FC Jazz Pori
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History
PPT 1934–1991
FC Jazz was established in 1934 as Po ...
from Finland.
He came to
FC Argeș
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in the 2007. Argeș had been relegated to
Liga II
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and were aiming for promotion. He had a good season, managing to score 14 goals in 22 matches. Thanks to his goals, he was nicknamed "Dulcea Boom Boom" by Arges fans. He played with FC Argeș in Liga I in the following season. He scored 7 times in 31 games, 2 of the goals being scored in the last leg, in Argeș's spectacular 5-2 victory over Dinamo. He stayed with the team even in difficult moments. At the end of the 2008/09 season, Argeș was relegated due to the corruption scandal.
Cornel Penescu, the owner of the club at that time, had been involved. Adrian remained with the team in the next season, in Liga II, where he played 23 matches and scored 7 goals.
After that, in 2010 he moved to
CS Mioveni
Clubul Sportiv Mioveni (; ''Mioveni Sports Club''), commonly known as CS Mioveni, or simply as Mioveni, is a Romanian professional football club based in Mioveni, Argeș County, currently playing in the Liga I.
They were founded in 2000 as ''AS ...
, where he stayed one season. Then he moved to
ALRO Slatina
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The club was founded in the summer of 2006 after the merger of A ...
for a season and returned to FC Argeș where he stayed until the club was disaffiliated and went extinct.
Adrian remained in Pitesti, choosing to be involved in the revival of FC Argeș. He signed with
SCM Pitesti and played there two seasons, in
Liga III
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. In 2015 he ended his career as a footballer.
Personal life
He is an
AC Milan
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fan, because of the legendary team managed by
Arrigo Sachi, with
Gullit,
Rijkaard and
Van Basten. Marco van Basten was his role model as a footballer. As a coach, he has
Bobby Robson
Sir Robert William Robson (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009) was an English footballer and football manager. His career included periods playing for and later managing the England national team and being a UEFA Cup-winning manager at Ipswich ...
as his model who impressed him with his modesty.
He has a son, Patrick Dulcea, who is also a footballer. He plays at the academy of
Farul Constanta, being one of the best players of his age.
External links
*http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/players/d/dulcea_adrian.shtml
*http://www.nela.hu//nch_pid.php?id=2067
*https://arges-sport.ro/adrian-dulcea-a-fost-numit-antrenor-secund-al-nationalei-u20-a-romaniei/
*https://fcolimpia.ro/interviu-adrian-dulcea/
*https://www.gsp.ro/fotbal/liga-1/adrian-dulcea-interviu-dupa-ce-a-preluat-o-pe-fc-arges-trebuie-sa-tinem-cu-dintii-de-liga-1-617351.html
1978 births
Living people
Romanian footballers
FC Unirea Dej players
FC Olimpia Satu Mare players
Győri ETO FC players
CFR Cluj players
ACF Gloria Bistrița players
CSM Jiul Petroșani players
FC Argeș Pitești players
Liga I players
Liga II players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Romanian football managers
FC Argeș Pitești managers
Romanian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Association football forwards
Sportspeople from Râmnicu Vâlcea
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