Valentin Vasile Badea (born 23 October 1982 in

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

) is a

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n former

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player. He played as a striker. His last contract was with

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team

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Club career

*On 2001 Jiul bought Badea for €1,000 from Rulmentul Alexandria. *Prior to 2006, when Badea joined Steaua București, he also played for Rulmentul Alexandria,

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and

FC Vaslui CS Sporting Juniorul Vaslui (), commonly known as Sporting Vaslui, Juniorul Vaslui or simply as Vaslui, is a Romanian professional football club based in Vaslui, Vaslui County, founded in 2002 and re-founded in 2014. The club is currently pla ...

. *He was discovered by Ioan Sdrobiş while he was playing for Rulmentul Alexandria in

's third division and where Badea was the team's top goalscorer. Sdrobiş then brought him to

, and then to

where he was the coach. *In 2006 Steaua paid €1,000,000 for Badea. *On 23 August 2006 he has scored two goals in the match against

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, in the third qualifying round of

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, goals which sent Steaua București into the group stage after ten years of absence. *On 20 December 2009, he was released from

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. *On 24 February 2010, he signed with

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Statistics

Titles

Trivia

*Steaua's

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was quoted by the press as saying that Badea will once become the Romanian top striker.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Badea, Valentin 1982 births Living people People from Alexandria, Romania Romanian footballers Association football forwards CSM Jiul Petroșani players FC Steaua București players FC Steaua II București players FC Vaslui players Panserraikos F.C. players FC U Craiova 1948 players FC Brașov (1936) players FC Politehnica Iași (1945) players CS Concordia Chiajna players FCV Farul Constanța players FC UTA Arad players Romanian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates Expatriate footballers in Greece Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece