Cosmina Anișoara Dușa (born 4 March 1990) is a Romanian

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who plays as a forward for Beroe in Bulgaria and the Romanian national team. As a player she won the national championship, the national cup and was top scorer of the league.

Career

Club

Dușa started playing football in

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with her brother's friends. At the age of 17, she was accepted by the Romanian women's football club champions, CFF Clujana Cluj. She made her official debut in a

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match against

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; scoring five goals in the three group matches. She later played for AS Volos 2004 from

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and was called up for the Romania national team. In 2010, she returned to

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and followed her first trainer, Mirel Albon, to the newly founded team

CFF Olimpia Cluj Fotbal Club U Olimpia Cluj-Napoca, commonly known as FCU Olimpia Cluj, or simply as U Olimpia Cluj, is a women's football team from Cluj-Napoca in Romania. It is Romania's top women's football club, having won all league titles since its incept ...

. In the club's very first season Dușa scored 103 goals in the club's 24 matches, making her the Liga I top scorer. She repeated that feat by winning the 2012 top-scorer award with 71 goals. In the

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qualifying she scored five goals in three matches. She was awarded for "Best Women's Footballer" in Romania from 2010 to 2012. By the end of September 2012, she transferred to the

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-based club

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in Turkey.

International

Dușa made her debut in the Romanian national team in March 2009 against

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. She featured for Romania in the

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tournament.

Career statistics

Honours

Club

; Romania Liga I Feminin :; CFF Clujana :: ''Winners'' (2): 2007–08, 2008–09 :; CFF Olimpia Cluj :: ''Winners'' (2): 2011, 2012 ; Romanian Women's Cupp :; CFF Clujana :: ''Winners'' (1): 2007–08 :; CFF Olimpia Cluj :: ''Winners'' (2): 2011, 2012 ; Turkish Women's First League :; Konak Belediyespor :: ''Winners'' (5): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 :: ''Third place'' (1): 2017–18

Individual

; Turkish Women's First League :; Konak Belediyespor :: ''Top scorer'' (3): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dusa, Cosmina Living people 1990 births Footballers from Mureș County Romanian women's footballers Women's association football forwards Konak Belediyespor players FCU Olimpia Cluj players CFF Clujana players Turkish Women's Football Super League players Romania women's international footballers Romanian expatriate women's footballers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate women's footballers in Turkey 21st-century Romanian sportswomen