Marian Aliuță (born 3 February 1978) is a

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n retired footballer who played as midfielder.

Career

Aliuță started to play football at Steaua București and as soon as he reached the age of 18 is loaned to Steaua Mizil and then to Chindia Târgovişte and Gloria Bistriţa. Released from him contract with Steaua București, Aliuță signed with FC Farul Constanţa in 1997 and then with

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one year later. Year 1999 finds him in Ukraine, playing for

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from where he returned to

in 2002 to finally make his debut for Steaua București. At that time being, with US$135,000 the highest paid footballer from

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. Despite being voted as ''The Best Player of

'' at the end of 2002–03 season, Aliuță leaves Steaua București after an altercation with the club's

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Mihai Stoica. Rapid Bucharest is his next club, which he left after only few weeks to play in

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for

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and then in the 2005–06 season he played for FC Metalurg Donetsk. In November 2006, he signed a two-year contract with Iraklis. After a 1-year spell in Greece, he returned to

where he signed for

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, a club with a huge fan base. In the summer of 2008, he moved to

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contenders

FC Vaslui Fotbal Club Vaslui, commonly known as FC Vaslui, or simply as Vaslui (), was a Romanian professional football club based in Vaslui, Vaslui County, founded in 2002 and dissolved in 2014. Its official club colours were yellow and green, hence t ...

. But after only 11 games he had a dispute with the club's powerful owner, Adrian Porumboiu and was given a free transfer. In the beginning of 2009 signed for the

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club Neftchi Baku, joining his long-time friend

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Honours

Club

;Sheriff Tiraspol *

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: 1998–99 ;Shakhtar Donetsk *

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( ) or UPL is a professional association football league in Ukraine and the highest level of the Ukrainian football league system. Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha ( , ) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 in ...

: 2001–02 *

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: 2000–01, 2001–02 ;Vaslui *

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: 2008

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