Valeriu "Vivi" Răchită (born 30 May 1970) is a Romanian former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

and current manager.

Playing career

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, he spent most of his career in Romania with

Steaua București Steaua or Steaua București may refer to: * CSA Steaua București, a Romanian multi-sports club * CSA Steaua București (football), the football team of the multi-sports club * Fotbal Club FCSB, a football team that used this name between 2003 ...

and Petrolul Ploiești, winning a combined five domestic honours with them. Răchită also had brief stints in the country at FC Onești, Farul Constanța and

FC Universitatea Craiova U Craiova 1948, commonly known as FC U Craiova 1948 or FC U Craiova, is a Romanian professional football club based in Craiova, Dolj County, which competes in the Liga I. It is along with CS Universitatea Craiova one of the two entities assert ...

, as well as at Ankaragücü and

Litex Lovech Litex ( bg, Литекс) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Lovech, which currently competes in the Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Sports Club. The club's home ground is the Gradski Stadion ...

abroad.

Managerial career

Răchită began coaching in 2005 at Petrolul Ploiești, and continued his early managerial career at

Chimia Brazi Club Sportiv Brazi, commonly known as CS Brazi, or simply as Brazi, is a Romanian amateur football club based in Brazi, Prahova County. The club was established in 1968, under the name of ''Chimia Brazi'' by the Brazi oil refinery. In 2002 the ...

and

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from

Astra Ploiești Asociația Fotbal Club Astra Giurgiu (), commonly known as Astra Giurgiu or simply Astra, was a Romanian football club based in the city of Giurgiu, Giurgiu County. Founded in 1921 in Ploiești as ''Clubul Sportiv Astra-Română'', it spent the ...

. He returned to Petrolul in 2009, and guided it to

Liga I The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...

promotion at the end of the 2010–11 season after winning its series in the

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. Between 2014 and 2015, Răchita served as an assistant to

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 ...

at the Romania national team and Saudi Arabian club

Al-Ittihad Al-Ittihad (Arabic: الاتحاد "The Union"), sometimes transliterated as Al-Etihad or Al-Ettihad may refer to: Sports Football Libya *Al-Ittihad Club (Tripoli), a football club based in Bab Ben Gashier * Al Ittihad Gheryan, a football club bas ...

, respectively.

Career statistics

Managerial

Honours

Player

Petrolul Ploiești * Cupa României: 1994–95
President's Gold Cup in Dhaka, Bangladesh
1993 Steaua București *

Divizia A The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...

: 1996–97, 1997–98 * Cupa României: 1996–97 *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României ( en, Romanian Supercup) is a Romanian 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 ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

Litex Lovech *

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup ( bg, Купа на България, Kupa na Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. The tourname ...

: 2000–01

Manager

Petrolul Ploiești *

Liga II The Liga 2, most often spelled as Liga II, is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name from Divizia B just before the start of the 2006–07 Liga II, 2006–07. It is currently Sponsor (commercial), sp ...

2010–11 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rachita, Valeriu 1970 births Living people Romanian footballers Romanian expatriate footballers CSO Plopeni players MKE Ankaragücü footballers PFC Litex Lovech players FC Petrolul Ploiești players FCV Farul Constanța players FC U Craiova 1948 players FC Steaua București players FC Astra Giurgiu managers Liga I players Süper Lig players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Expatriate footballers in Turkey Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria Romanian football managers FC Petrolul Ploiești managers CS Sportul Snagov managers ACS Poli Timișoara managers Association football defenders