Sergiu Victor Homei (born 6 July 1987) is a

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n former football player. He played as a

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. Homei was a member of Romania's national under-21 football team.

Career

Homei started professional football at the age of 17, playing for CF Liberty Salonta in

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, winning a place in the first eleven in the second part of the year. Liberty won Liga II that year, but

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bought their place, and so they would play in the third division,

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. Homei subsequently transferred to

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in the Bordosi Liga, where he played 14 matches in the first half of the season before moving to

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. He played his first match in the top football league of

against

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. In order to play more matches, Homei was loaned for one year to Politehnica Iaşi in the pre-season period of 2007. He returned to Dinamo in the summer of 2008, when his loan expired, and manifested his wish to be loaned again at Politehnica Iaşi. He was later loaned to

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and FCM Târgu Mureş. Homei never managed to make the step towards the first team at Dinamo and in 2013 he was released. In January 2014, Homei signed a contract for 18 months with Corona Brașov. After the team was relegated from Liga I at the end of the 2013–14 season, Homei became a free agent and signed a contract for two years with

FC Botoșani Fotbal Club Botoșani (), commonly known as FC Botoșani or simply Botoșani, is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Botoșani, Botoșani County, that competes in the Liga I. In 2013, twelve years after being established, ...

. Homei joined

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n club Neftochimic Burgas in the summer of 2016. In August 2017, Homei signed with

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Honours

;Liberty Salonta *

: 2005–06 ;Dinamo București *

: 2006–07

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Homei, Sergiu 1987 births Living people People from Năsăud Romanian footballers Romania under-21 international footballers Association football defenders Romanian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria Expatriate footballers in Hungary Liga I players FC Dinamo București players FC Politehnica Iași (1945) players ACF Gloria Bistrița players FC Unirea Urziceni players ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș players Liga II players CF Liberty Oradea players LPS HD Clinceni players CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu players CSM Corona Brașov footballers FC Botoșani players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players FC Sopron players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Neftochimic Burgas players Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary