Dan Ion Potocianu (born 5 March 1974) is a

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n former

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who played as a defender during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Career

Potocianu started playing professionally in 1990 with his home-town team

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. In 1993, he earned a move to

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where he went on to make over 100 appearances before leaving for

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in 1997. While at Servette, he had a loan spell. Potocianu joined

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's first team on loan during the second half of their 1998–99 season under head coach

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. Potocianu played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game in the

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on 13 March 1999 as Basel were defeated 1–2 by Servette. During his short loan period with the club, Potocianu played a total of 12 games for Basel without scoring a goal. 10 of these games were in the Nationalliga A and two were friendly games. He returned to Progresul București in 2000, but injury forced him to retire in 2002 at the age of 28. He was capped once for the

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, as a second-half substitute for Anton Doboş in an 8-1 European Championships Qualifying win over

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in Eschen on 6 September 1997.

Honours

;CSM Reșița *

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(1): 1991–92 ;Naţional București *

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Runner-up (3): 1995–96, 1996–97, 2001–02 *

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Runner-up (1): 1996–97 ;Servette * Swiss League (1): 1998–99

References

Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage

External links

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