Clement Pălimaru (born 4 February 1986) is a Romanian retired professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Politehnica Iași

Pălimaru started playing football in his hometown, at the LPS Botoșani youth club. During the 2004–05 season, he and teammate Paul Tincu were picked up by Politehnica Iaşi, as they were the most promising players from the centre at that time. In order to get more playing time, he was loaned to

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. After 13 matches and five goals scored in the second league (and also two goals against

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in the

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; Cetatea lost the match 3–2), he was called back to Politehnica, at that time in shortage of forwards. Although Pălimaru did get a lot of play time, during the 2006–07 season he began to grow in form and was the team's top scorer in the training games during the winter break. He shortly broke the ice in

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, contributing with a goal in the 4–0 victory over

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International career

Pălimaru appeared five times for the Romania under-21 football team. In the 2009 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers he scored the only goal of the game against

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, in the last minute, after coming on as a substitute.

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* * 1986 births Living people Men's association football forwards Sportspeople from Botoșani Footballers from Botoșani County Romanian men's footballers FC Politehnica Iași (1945) players CSM Cetatea Suceava players FC Botoșani players AFC Dacia Unirea Brăila players FC Politehnica Iași (2010) players FC Gloria Buzău players Liga I players Liga II players 21st-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-footy-forward-1980s-stub