Boris Keca (born 5 April 1978) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian former

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who spent several seasons at

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n football clubs, playing as a

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Club career

Keca was born in

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. He started playing in Romania with Naţional Bucharest, a club at the time popular for foreign players from Eastern-Europe (the likes of his fellow Bosnian

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or Albanian

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) or Australians ( Michael Thwaite,

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or Jonathan McKain). With Naţional he could compete in the

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, where they would edge out teams like

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and

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before eventually being eliminated by

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in the Second Round. He made his debut in

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on 19 November 1999 against Universitatea Craiova.Boris Keca
at RomanianSoccer.ro He then transferred in 2003 to Braşov, from where he was brought to Steaua Bucharest in January 2005, by his former Naţional coach

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, ahead of their

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matches, where they managed to reach the Round of 16 after surpassing

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. He was being dropped out of the team after the defeat in the 2005 Romanian Supercup match. Subsequently, he spent the 2004–2005 season at

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, where they succeeded finishing in the last non-relegating spot in a season after which the first league would change from 16 to 18 teams. The following season, he was brought to Argeş Piteşti by another Italian manager

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. The club would get relegated at the end of the season finishing 17th, with Giannini being sacked after nine consecutive defeats. Towards the end of his playing career he signed with the second league side

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and the following season with the fourth division team of outer Bucharest, Voinţa Domneşti.Liga2: Pomul lăudat de la Domneşti
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Honours

Runner-Up: * Naţional București **

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: 2002–03 * Steaua București **

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: 2005

References

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