Florentin Petre (born 15 January 1976) is a Romanian professional

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and former player.

Club career

Born in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

, Petre started playing football at the youth center of

Dinamo București A dynamo is a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator. Dynamo or Dinamo may also refer to: Places * Dinamo (Moscow Metro), a station of the Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia * Dinamo (Yekaterinburg Metro), a station of the Yekaterin ...

, playing his first

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match for the senior squad on 15 October 1994 in a 2–0 victory over

Universitatea Cluj Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj (), commonly known as Universitatea Cluj or simply as U Cluj, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I, the first ...

in which he opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. He was loaned to

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in the second half of that season, playing 8

matches in which he scored one goal. He helped Dinamo win The Double, scoring 7 goals in 22 matches in the 1999–2000 Divizia A. In 2000 Petre contracted

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and had an accident while fishing in the

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when he touched an electricity wire with his fishing rod and almost lost his life, these events put him on the sideline for almost two seasons, but he sill managed to bring his contribution to the winning of the 2001–02 title by scoring one goal in 10 appearances. He helped Dinamo win The Double again, playing 24 games and scoring 4 goals in the

2003–04 Divizia A The 2003–04 Divizia A was the eighty-sixth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began in August 2003 and ended in June 2004. Dinamo București became champions on 3 June 2004. Team changes Relegated The teams ...

season. Petre spent a total of 12 seasons at Dinamo in which he scored 43 goals in 259

appearances, winning three titles, five cups and one supercup, also playing 32 games and scoring 6 goals in European competitions (including 3 appearances in the

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). Petre left Dinamo in July 2006 and signed a three-year contract with Bulgarian club

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia ( bg, ЦСКА София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sport ...

. In his first season spent in Bulgaria, Petre played alongside fellow Romanians

Eugen Trică Eugen Trică (born 5 August 1976) is a Romanian football manager and former footballer who played as a midfielder, currently in charge of Liga II club Concordia Chiajna. Club career Eugen Trică started his career at Universitatea Craiova as a ...

and Alexandru Pițurcă, managing to win the 2006 Bulgarian Supercup and finish runner-up in the championship. In the following season he played 24 games and scored 11 goals, helping CSKA win the 31st title in the club's history. In 2008, Petre went to play alongside fellow Romanians

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and Andrei Mărgăritescu in the

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for

Terek Grozny Republican Football Club Akhmat ( ce, футболан клуб Ахмат Соьлжа-ГӀала; russian: Республиканский футбольный клуб Ахмат Грозный), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, is a Russian ...

. In January 2010, Petre returned at

for a half of year, alongside fellow Romanians

and coach

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. In both periods spent at CSKA, Petre scored a total of 22 goals in 58 Bulgarian league matches, also appearing in 8 matches in which he scored one goal in European competitions. Petre ended his career in 2011 at

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, his last game being a 2–0 victory against Gloria Bistrița in

, a competition in which he has a total of 278 matches played and 46 goals scored.

International career

Petre played 54 games and scored 6 goals for

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, making his debut under coach

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on 19 August 1998 in a friendly which ended 0–0 against

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. He played 8 games and scored one goal in a 2–1 victory against

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at the successful Euro 2000 qualifiers. He was used by coach

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in two games at the Euro 2000 final tournament, in the first one he came as a substitute and replaced

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in the 64th minute of the 1–0 loss against

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in the group stage and in the second one he played the whole game in the quarterfinal lost with 2–0 against

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. Petre played one game at the 2002 World Cup qualifiers and nine games in which he scored one goal in a 2–1 victory against

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at the 2006 World Cup qualifiers. He played 7 games and scored one goal in a 2–0 victory against

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at the successful Euro 2008 qualifiers. He was used by coach

in two games in the group stage at the Euro 2008 final tournament, in the first one which was a 1–1 against

he played as a starter until the 59th minute when he was replaced by

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and in the second one he came as a substitute and replaced

in the 2–0 loss against

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. Petre played one game and scored one goal in a 2–2 against

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at the 2010 World Cup qualifiers, making his last appearance for the national team in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 loss against

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. On 25 March 2008, he was decorated by the president of

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, for his performance in the

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, where Romania managed to qualify to

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. He received Medalia "Meritul Sportiv" – ("The Sportive Merit" Medal) class III.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Petre goal''.

Managerial career

Petre started his managerial career in February 2012 as

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's assistant coach at

Dinamo II București A dynamo is a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator. Dynamo or Dinamo may also refer to: Places * Dinamo (Moscow Metro), a station of the Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia * Dinamo (Yekaterinburg Metro), a station of the Yekaterinb ...

, moving in the second half of the

2012–13 Liga I The 2012–13 Liga I was the ninety-fifth season of Liga I, the top-level football league of Romania. The season began on 21 July 2012 and ended on 30 May 2013. CFR Cluj were the defending champions. Since Romania dropped from 14th to 22nd plac ...

season as

Cornel Țălnar Cornel Țălnar (born 9 June 1957) is a Romanian football manager and former player. Club career Cornel Țălnar, nicknamed "Țânțarul" (The Mosquito), was born on 9 June 1957 in Bărăbanț, Alba County and started to play at the junior sq ...

's assistant at

's first team. He had his first experience as head coach in 2015 at

. He reunited with Țălnar in 2017, working as his assistant at

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and

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, after which he had a spell as head coach at Foresta Suceava. From August 2018 until December 2021, Petre coached

Dacia Unirea Brăila Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus ...

, finishing with the team in the last place of the

2018–19 Liga II The 2018–19 Liga II (also known as 2018–19 Liga II Casa Pariurilor) was the 79th season of the Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The season began on 4 August 2018 and ended on 1 June 2019. A total of 20 teams co ...

season, thus relegating to

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where he managed to obtain a promotion back to

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in the 2020–21 Liga III season, but after the first half of the 2021–22 season in which the team finished last with only two points, he and the club ended their collaboration.

Rallying

Petre was also passionate of

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, competing in the national

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championships of Romania and Bulgaria, becoming rally champion of Bulgaria in 2010 and obtaining the 3rd position at the 2012 rally championship of Romania.

Personal life

His son

Patrick Petre Patrick Mihai Petre (born 9 May 1997) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga II club Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț. Club career Petre joined Dinamo București at the age of 6 and gradually progressed through the variou ...

is also a footballer who started his career at

Honours

Dinamo București *

: 1999–00, 2001–02, 2003–04 *

Cupa României The Cupa României ( en, Romanian Cup) is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. I ...

: 1999–00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05 *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României ( en, Romanian Supercup) is a Romanian football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994, ...

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CSKA Sofia * Bulgarian League: 2007–08 *

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup ( bg, Суперкупа на България) is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and ...

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Petre, Florentin 1976 births Living people Footballers from Bucharest Romanian footballers Association football wingers FC Dinamo București players PFC CSKA Sofia players FC Akhmat Grozny players FC UTA Arad players Liga I players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Russian Premier League players Romanian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria Expatriate footballers in Russia Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Romania under-21 international footballers Romania international footballers UEFA Euro 2000 players UEFA Euro 2008 players Romanian football managers ACS Foresta Suceava managers AFC Dacia Unirea Brăila managers CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț managers Romanian rally drivers