Florin Alexandru Tene (born 10 November 1968) is a retired

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n footballer and current goalkeeper coach at Neftchi Baku.

Club career

Florin Tene was born on 10 November 1968 in

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, Romania and started to play junior level football at local club, Dinamo under the guidance of coaches Ioan Timar, Iosif Varga and

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, also until his youth period ended in 1987 he was teammate with fellow goalkeepers

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and

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. He made his Divizia A debut, playing for '' The Red Dogs'' on 18 June 1987 under coach

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in a 5–4 loss in front of Sportul Studențesc București which would remain his only appearance for the team, afterwards leaving to play for Autobuzul București in

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. After one season spent at Autobuzul, Tene returned back to Divizia A football at Flacăra Moreni where he spent two seasons, earning a 4th place in the first one that granted the team the qualification to the

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, a occasion which gave him the opportunity to make his debut in European competitions, appearing in both legs of the 4–1 loss on aggregate in front FC Porto in the first round. In 1990 he went to play for Gloria Bistrița and during the 1991–92 season he was transferred back at Dinamo, being used by coach Florin Halagian in 21 league games until the end of the season as the team won the title. In the following season he played all the four games in the 1992–93 Champions League campaign, helping '' The Red Dogs'' eliminate Kuusysi Lahti in the preliminary round, being eliminated by

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in the first round and in the middle of the season he returned to play for Gloria where in the following season he helped the club win the

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by playing five games in the campaign, including keeping a clean sheet in the 1–0 victory against Universitatea Craiova from the

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, also in the same season he scored the only goal of his career from a penalty kick in a 5–0 victory against Sportul Studențesc. In 1994, Tene went to play for a third spell at Dinamo, then in the middle of the 1995–96 season he switched teams again, this time going for one year and a half at

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and afterwards he had his only experience outside Romania, playing 10 games in the 1997–98 1.Lig for Karabükspor in

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. He returned in Romania at Steaua București with whom in one season he won two trophies by keeping a clean sheet in the 4–0 victory against Rapid in the 1998 Supercupa României and made two appearances in the victorious

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campaign but without being used in the

. He played the first half of the

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season at Rocar București and the second at Argeș Pitești and in the following season he went for a fourth spell at Dinamo where he made his last five Divizia A appearances, having a total of 275 matches and one goal scored in the competition and a total of 15 games in European competitions.

International career

Florin Tene played 6 friendly games at international level for

, making his debut under coach

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on 26 August 1992 in a 2–0 victory against

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. He was selected by coach

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to be part of

's squad at the

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final tournament, however he was not used in any games, the same year he played his last international match on 14 August in a 2–0 victory against

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. For representing his country at

, Tene was decorated by

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on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.

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Managerial career

After he ended his playing career, Florin Tene worked mostly as a goalkeeper coach at various teams, having only two spells as head coach at

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and Sportul Studențesc and since 2013 he became a part of Laurențiu Reghecampf's staff at the teams he coached which include Steaua București, Al Hilal,

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, Al Wahda or Neftchi Baku.

Honours

Dinamo București * Divizia A: 1991–92 Gloria Bistriţa * Cupa României: 1993–94 Steaua București * Cupa României: 1998–99 * Supercupa României:

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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tene, Florin 1968 births Living people Footballers from Bucharest Romanian footballers Romanian expatriate footballers FC Steaua București players ACF Gloria Bistrița players UEFA Euro 1996 players Men's association football goalkeepers FC Rapid București players Romania men's international footballers Liga I players Liga II players Süper Lig players FC Dinamo București players FC Argeș Pitești players AFC Rocar București players CSM Flacăra Moreni players Kardemir Karabükspor footballers Expatriate footballers in Turkey Romanian football managers FC Sportul Studențesc București managers