Ștefan Costel Grigorie (born 31 January 1982) is a

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n former

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who played as a

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, currently assistant coach at

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club Tunari.

Club career

Grigorie was born on 31 January 1982 in

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, Romania, starting his career at Universitatea Craiova, making his

Divizia A 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 on 2 June 1999 in a 1–0 loss against

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. He was loaned for a half of year in 2000 at neighboring

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team, Electro in

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, afterwards returning at Universitatea where he made his European competitions debut in the 2001 Intertoto Cup, scoring five goals in four appearances. In 2002 when Craiova owner Gheorghe Nețoiu left the team to go at

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, he took players Grigorie, Dan Alexa,

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, Ciprian Danciu,

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and Cosmin Bărcăuan with him. He helped the club win the 2003–04 Divizia A, being used by coach

Ioan Andone Ioan Andone (; born 15 March 1960) is a Romanian professional football coach and former player. Club career Corvinul Hunedoara Ioan Andone, nicknamed "Fălcosul" was born on 15 March 1960 in Șpălnaca , and when he was 14 years old, he playe ...

in 25 matches in which he scored eight goals. During his four seasons spent with '' The Red Dogs'' in which developed an appetite for goals, scoring 30 goals in 101 Divizia A matches, he also won three

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, scoring the only goal from the 2005 final against Farul Constanța. He won the 2005 Supercupa României, being used by Andone all the minutes in the 3–2 victory against

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Steaua București. He also made some European performances as getting past

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in the

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, then in the 2005–06 edition of the same competition, they eliminated Everton with a historical 5–2 win on aggregate, reaching the group stage. In the summer of 2006 he was bought together with Dan Alexa from Dinamo by Politehnica Timișoara where he spent only one season, not accommodating, being transferred at

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in exchange for

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. Grigorie spent six seasons with '' The Railwaymen'', playing a total of 136 Divizia A matches, scoring 13 goals, winning the

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against his former team Dinamo. Under the guidance of coach

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, he helped the team eliminate

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with 4–2 on aggregate in the play-offs of the 2010–11 Europa League, reaching the group stage of the competition. In 2013, Grigorie had his first and only experience outside Romania, playing for half of year in the

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, afterwards returning to play in Divizia A for three years and a half at FC Brașov,

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and

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. He ended his career by spending two seasons in

at FC Brașov and

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. Grigorie has a total of 368 Divizia A matches in which he scored 59 goals and 38 appearances with five goals scored in European competitions (including four appearances and five goals in the

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International career

Grigorie played two friendly games for

, making his debut under coach

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on 12 February 2003, when he came as a substitute and replaced

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in the 82nd minute of a 2–1 win over

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. His second and final appearance for the national team was under coach

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on 16 August 2006 in a 2–0 victory against

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International stats

Honours

Dinamo București *

: 2003–04 *

: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05 *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României () is a Romanian football (soccer), football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994 Supe ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Rapid București *

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grigorie, Stefan 1982 births Living people People from Segarcea Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Liga I players Liga II players FC U Craiova 1948 players FC Dinamo București players FC Politehnica Timișoara players FC Rapid București players FC Brașov (1936) players CS Concordia Chiajna players FC Politehnica Iași (2010) players Cypriot First Division players Apollon Limassol FC players FC UTA Arad players Romanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Footballers from Dolj County 21st-century Romanian sportsmen