Nicolae Adrian Grigore (born 19 July 1983) is a

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n former footballer who played as a defensive

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for clubs such as:

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, FC Brașov,

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, among others. He is currently the manager of Metaloglobus București.

International career

Nicolae Grigore played four games at international level for

, making his debut on 14 October 2009 under coach

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in a 3–1 victory against

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at the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. His following three games were friendlies which also ended up with victories, a 3–1 against

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, a 1–0 against

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and a 4–0 against

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International stats

Honours

Rapid București *

Divizia A The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...

: 2002–03 *

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 ...

: 2001–02, 2005–06, 2006–07 *

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, ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

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* * * 1983 births Living people People from Buftea Romanian footballers Romania international footballers Association football midfielders Liga I players FC Rapid București players FC Brașov (1936) players FC Dinamo București players FC Voluntari players Saudi Professional League players Ettifaq FC players Cypriot First Division players Apollon Limassol FC players Romanian expatriate footballers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Romanian football managers FC Rapid București managers FC Metaloglobus București managers FC Rapid București assistant managers {{Romania-footy-midfielder-stub