Ovidiu Nicușor Burcă (born 16 March 1980) is a Romanian
football manager and current head coach of
Liga I
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side
Dinamo București A dynamo is a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator.
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Places
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.
Club career
Early career
Born in
Slatina, Burcă began his youth career at
Școala de Fotbal Gheorghe Popescu.
Emelec
He began his professional career in Ecuador at
Club Sport Emelec in the
Primera Categoría Serie A league making six appearances.
JEF United Ichihara
A year later he got noticed by the Japanese club
JEF United Ichihara
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and signed with them. He played there only four matches and impressed the scouts of
Ventforet Kofu
is a Japanese football club from Kōfu in Yamanashi Prefecture. The team currently competes in the J2 League and play their home games in JIT Recycle Ink Stadium, located in Kōfu.
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and he was transferred immediately.
Ventforet Kofu
Burcă played sixteen matches and scored one goal for Ventforet.
Universitatea Craiova
After a year in Ecuador and near two years in Japan, Burcă returned to Romania to play for
FC Universitatea Craiova
U Craiova 1948, commonly known as FC U Craiova 1948 or FC U Craiova, is a Romanian professional football club based in Craiova, Dolj County, which competes in the Liga I.
It is along with CS Universitatea Craiova one of the two entities asser ...
a total of 25 matches, which impressed
FC Dinamo București who signed him.
Dinamo București
He won with them the
Romanian League
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during the 2003–04 season. After spending three years with Dinamo, Burcă signed a one-and-a-half-year and contract with
FC Național.
Energie Cottbus
In June 2007,
Bundesliga
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side
Energie Cottbus
FC Energie Cottbus ( Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons i ...
announced signing him a three-year contract deal. However, in his first Bundesliga season at the club he did not make any appearance due a serious injury, which resulted a year break in the 2007–08 season. Burcă was one of the key players at Cottbus and they named him as
captain in 2009. He was loaned out in 2008 to Chinese club
Beijing Guoan
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.
Politehnica Timișoara
After his contract expired with the German side, Burcă signed a one-year contract with
FC Politehnica Timișoara returning to
Liga 1 after three years. He was handed the number 25 shirt.
He made his debut in a
Europa League
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play-off against
Manchester City in a 2–0 loss.
Honours
Player
Dinamo București
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Divizia A:
2003–04
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Cupa României:
2002–03,
2003–04,
2004–05
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Supercupa României:
2005
Național București
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Cupa României runner-up:
2005–06
Rapid București
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Cupa României runner-up:
2011–12
Coach
CSM Slatina
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Liga III
The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. Its name was changed from Divizia C to Liga III before the start of the 2006–07 season. It was the first in this format (six series of 18 t ...
:
2021–22
References
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Living people
1980 births
Sportspeople from Slatina, Romania
Footballers from Olt County
Men's association football central defenders
Romanian men's footballers
Romania men's under-21 international footballers
C.S. Emelec footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
JEF United Chiba players
Ventforet Kofu players
FC U Craiova 1948 players
FC Dinamo București players
FC Progresul București players
FC Energie Cottbus players
Beijing Guoan F.C. players
FC Politehnica Timișoara players
FC Rapid București players
FC Rapid București presidents
Liga I players
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Chinese Super League players
Romanian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Ecuador
Expatriate men's footballers in Japan
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in China
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador
Romanian football managers
Liga II managers
CSM Slatina (football) managers
FC Dinamo București managers