Florin Cheran (born 5 April 1947) is a

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n former footballer who played as a defender.

Club career

Florin Cheran was born on 5 April 1947 in

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but spent his childhood in

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where he played football at junior level at local club, Unirea Râmnicu Vâlcea, also during that period he practiced athletics and volleyball, being national champion at the child level long jump. He started to play football at senior level at

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club, Electronica București. Cheran went to play for

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, making his

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debut on 16 August 1969, under coach

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in a 5–2 victory against

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. He won four

titles with '' The Red Dogs'', in the first he contributed with one goal scored in 29 matches, in the second he played 16 games, in the third he made 31 appearances and in the last one he scored 3 goals in 34 matches. After 11 seasons spent at Dinamo in which he made 284

appearances with 8 goals scored and played 23 matches in European competitions, Cheran went to play for the team from his childhood town,

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for two seasons. In 1982 he returned in

at the club where he started his senior career, which this time was named Dinamo Victoria București where he was also an assistant coach. In the 1985–86 season he became

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's assistant at Dinamo, also playing one game in

, which was his last, a 2–0 victory against Bihor Oradea on 8 June 1986 in which he replaced Iulian Mihăescu in the 74th minute because the team had a squad problem in that period. Florin Cheran has a total of 326

appearances in which he scored 8 goals.

International career

Florin Cheran played 29 matches at international level for

, making his debut under coach

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on 5 June 1974 in a friendly which ended 0–0 against

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. He played five games at the Euro 1976 qualifiers and four at the 1978 World Cup qualifiers. Cheran played three games at the

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and three at the successful

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. He also played 8 matches for Romania's Olympic team.

Managerial career

Florin Cheran started his managerial career while still being an active player, being

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’s assistant at Dinamo Victoria București from 1982 until 1984. In 1984 he became the team's head coach, helping it gain promotion to

. Afterwards he went to be

's assistant at

, where he would spend 15 years, being assistant to all the head coaches the club had during this time. In 2000 he was Ion Moldovan's assistant at Romania's under 21 national team, afterwards being the assistant of

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and

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's senior side. In 2002 he was Ion Moldovan's assistant at

, afterwards he went to work for the

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, being the head coach of various junior national team squads over the course of almost 9 years.

Honours

Player

Dinamo București *

: 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77 Romania *

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: 1977–80, runner-up 1973–76 Individual *

Romanian Footballer of the Year The Romanian Footballer of the Year ( ro, Fotbalistul român al anului), also known as the Nicolae Dobrin Trophy ( ro, Trofeul Nicolae Dobrin), is an annual association football award given by the ''Gazeta Sporturilor'' newspaper to the Romanian ...

(''fifth place''): 1976,

Manager

Dinamo Victoria București *

: 1984–85

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheran, Florin 1947 births Living people Footballers from Bucharest Romanian men's footballers Olympic footballers for Romania Romania men's international footballers Men's association football defenders Liga I players Liga II players Victoria București players FC Dinamo București players Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea players Romanian football managers