Romeo "Romică" Bunică (born 11 April 1974) is a Romanian former professional

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who played as a forward.

Club career

Born in

Râmnicu Sărat Râmnicu Sărat (also spelled ''Rîmnicu Sărat'', , or ''Rebnick''; ) is a municipiu, city in Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia. It was first attested in a document of 1439, and raised to the rank of ''municipiu'' in ...

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Bunică spent almost all his career, despite 2 seasons and a half at

Otopeni Otopeni () is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, neighbouring the north of Bucharest along the DN1 road to Ploiești. It has 21,750 inhabitants, of which 99.0% are ethnic Romanians. One village, Odăile, is administered by the city. H ...

, at teams from his homecounty such as: Olimpia Râmnicu Sărat,

FC Gloria Buzău Asociația Sportivă Fotbal Club Buzău (), commonly known as Gloria Buzău or simply as Buzău, is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Buzău, Buzău County, that competes in the Liga II. The club was originally founded o ...

or Petrolul Berca. A regular player of the second and third leagues, Bunică made his

Liga I Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

debut when he was 33 years old at

, in a 1–2 defeat against

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. The most controversial moment of Bunică's career took place on 30 November 2007, when as a player of Gloria Buzău, at that time a team with many players loaned from Steaua București and seen by many as an unofficial satellite, scored from a free kick in the last minute, goal by which Gloria would equalize Steaua, 1-1. After the match he was removed from the team, fact that caused a big media scandal. In 2009 Bunică retired and started his manager career, managing teams such as:

FC Voluntari Fotbal Club Voluntari (), commonly known as FC Voluntari or simply Voluntari, is a Romanian professional football club based in Voluntari, Ilfov County, that competes in the Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian league system. Founded in 2 ...

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* * 1974 births Living people People from Râmnicu Sărat Romanian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Liga I players Liga II players FC Gloria Buzău players CS Otopeni players Romanian football managers FC Voluntari managers CS Otopeni managers Footballers from Buzău County {{Romania-footy-forward-1970s-stub