Vasile Ilie "Lică" Jula (born 13 December 1974) is a retired

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

n footballer who played as a defender.

Career

Jula began his career at

Universitatea Cluj Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj (), commonly known as Universitatea Cluj or simply as U Cluj, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I, the first ...

, playing in the

1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup The 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup was the first edition of the tournament administered by the UEFA. It saw Strasbourg and Bordeaux win their semi-finals to advance to the UEFA Cup, the latter eventually finishing runners-up. It also saw English repres ...

. He later went on to play for

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before moving to

CFR Cluj Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ), is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, which competes in the Liga I. It was founded in 1907 as ''Kolozsvári Vasutas Sport Club'', whe ...

during the summer of 2004. After 3 years at CFR, in which he played in the

final, "Lică" Jula moved to

Dacia Mioveni Clubul Sportiv Mioveni (; ''Mioveni Sports Club''), commonly known as CS Mioveni, or simply as Mioveni, is a Romanian professional football club based in Mioveni, Argeș County, currently playing in the Liga I. They were founded in 2000 as ''A ...

and after one season he signed with

FC Zalău Fotbal Club Zalău was a Romanian football team from Zalău, Sălaj County, founded in 2005 and dissolved in 2017 after encountered financial problems. History FC Zalău was founded in the summer of 2005, in order to continue Zalău's football ...

where he played for 5 years, his last years as a player. In the first part of the 2013–14 season Jula was the manager of the team under the Meseș Hill. In April 2021, Jula was the caretaker manager of

SCM Zalău Sport Club Municipal Zalău, commonly known as SCM Zalău, is a Romanian professional football club based in Zalău, Sălaj County. This team represents the football section of the multi-sport club SCM Zalău, which also include athletics, boxi ...

International career

In 2005, he was called up by coach

Victor Pițurcă Victor Pițurcă (; born 8 May 1956) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player. Club career Pițurcă was born in Orodel, Dolj County. He joined Universitatea Craiova as a youth in 1970, aged 14, and four years later he was ...

to play for

, but he was only a reserve during the 2006 World Cup qualification game against

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Honours

CFR Cluj * UEFA Intertoto Cup runner-up: 2005

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jula, Vasile 1974 births Living people Romanian footballers Association football defenders Liga I players Liga II players FC Universitatea Cluj players ACF Gloria Bistrița players CFR Cluj players CS Mioveni players FC Zalău players Romanian football managers People from Dej