Dan Petrescu is a famous Romanian coach, anda former footballer who now heads Al-Nasr from the United Arab Emirates. Dana Petrescu's career was incredibly rich, both in his youth and when he became a coach. When Petrescu was a football player, he acted in the position of right-back. Performances at the professional level of Dan Petrescu ended in 2003, when he, at the age of 36, announced his retirement.
Biography
Дан Петреску родился 22 декабря 1967 года в the capital of Romania, Bucharest. However, he has not only Romanian, but also British citizenship, which he received when he played in England. As for his personal life, Petrescu was married twice. He broke up with his first wife in 2003, and in 2008 he remarried. He and his wife, Adriana, have three daughters, two of whom Dan left from his last marriage.
Club career
The performances of Dan Petrescu in football began inRomania, where he was raised from an early age by the academy of one of the strongest clubs in the country, Steaua. At the age of eighteen, he signed a professional contract with the team and from 1985 to 1991, he played for this club. In total, he played for 151 matches for Steaua, and also spent 25 games for Olt Scornichesti on loan in Romania.
In 1991, Dana Petrescu's career seriouslychanged, as he went on increasing and moved to Italy, where he had played for Foggia for two years, and for another year for Genoa. Unlike the Romanian Championship, where Petrescu won three championships and two cups, and also once reached the Champions League final, in Italy he was not expecting great success, but it was Foggia and Genoa that became a springboard for him in big football.
In 1994, he moved to England, where he playeda year and a half for Sheffield before climbing to the top of his career. In the winter of 1996, Dan Petrescu went to Chelsea in London, for which he played four and a half years, entered the field 207 times, won the FA Cup, the FA Cup and the Champions League. Since 2000, his career as a defender began to decline, he moved first to Bradford, then to Southampton, and then in 2002 he returned to Romania. The last football club of Dan Petrescu is National, in which he played his last season before announcing his retirement in the summer of 2003.
Career in the national team
Petrescu made his Romania debut in March1989 and since then has spent for the national team as many as 94 matches. This is the sixth figure among all Romanian football players in the history of the national team. Petrescu was at the 1994 World Championships, where he scored a goal against the hosts of the tournament, which allowed the Romanians to leave the group. He was also at the European Championships in 1996 and at the World Championships in 1998, where he scored a goal against the British. The last major tournament Petrescu was the European Championships 2000.
Career coach
Coach Dan Petrescu, whose biography is notended within the field, and continued beyond, became immediately after the completion of a football player’s career. In the summer of 2003, he headed the Romanian Sportul, which he led for one season and won the First League of Romania. Following this, Petrescu headed the Polish “Vistula”, with which he took second place in the Polish Championship, and in 2006 he stayed in the Romanian club “Unirea” for a long time. He stayed there for almost three and a half years and won the Romanian Championship before moving to Russia in the winter of 2009 to head the Kuban.
Three more seasons he spent driving one club,bringing him to victory in the First Division in 2010, after which he moved to Dynamo Moscow. There he was unable to achieve success, so he went to the Qatari Al-Arabi, which he supervised for a very short time. In the summer of 2015, Petrescu returned to Romania and headed Tirgu Mures, with which he won the Roman Super Cup, but a month later he went to work in China, where he was offered an incredible contract at Jiangsu Sainty. With this club, he won the Chinese Cup, and in the summer of 2016 he returned to Russia to head Kuban, from which he was dismissed in October of the same year. On October 29, 2016, Petrescu headed Al-Nasr from the United Arab Emirates, which he now heads.
