Marius Șumudică
Romanian association football manager and former player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marius Ninel Șumudică (born 4 March 1971) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Marius Ninel Șumudică | ||
Date of birth | (1971-03-04) 4 March 1971 (age 53) | ||
Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
1978–1988 | Sportul Studențesc | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1989–1996 | Sportul Studențesc | 127 | (26) |
1992–1993 | → Dacia Unirea Brăila (loan) | 11 | (1) |
1994 | → Corvinul Hunedoara (loan) | 6 | (1) |
1996–1999 | Rapid București | 70 | (26) |
1999–2001 | Marítimo | 50 | (7) |
2001–2002 | Rapid București | 26 | (9) |
2002–2003 | Debrecen | 39 | (21) |
2004 | Omonia | 9 | (6) |
2004 | UTA Arad | 10 | (3) |
2005 | Gloria Bistrița | 2 | (0) |
Total | 350 | (100) | |
Managerial career | |||
2005 | Rapid București (assistant) | ||
2005–2006 | Rapid II București | ||
2006–2007 | Rocar București | ||
2007 | AS Dodu Berceni | ||
2008 | Inter Gaz București | ||
2008 | Progresul București | ||
2009 | Astra Ploiești | ||
2009 | Farul Constanța | ||
2010 | Gloria Bistrița | ||
2010–2011 | Rapid București | ||
2011 | AO Kavala | ||
2011 | Astra Ploiești | ||
2011–2012 | FC Brașov | ||
2012 | FC Vaslui | ||
2012 | Universitatea Cluj | ||
2012–2013 | Al-Shaab | ||
2014–2015 | Concordia Chiajna | ||
2015–2017 | Astra Giurgiu | ||
2017–2018 | Kayserispor | ||
2018–2019 | Al-Shabab | ||
2019–2021 | Gaziantep | ||
2021 | Çaykur Rizespor | ||
2021 | CFR Cluj | ||
2021–2022 | Yeni Malatyaspor | ||
2022 | Al-Shabab | ||
2022–2023 | Al-Raed | ||
2023–2024 | Gaziantep | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Șumudică played as a striker and started out at Sportul Studențesc in 1989, going on to represent five other teams in his native country as well as Marítimo, Debrecen and Omonia abroad. In the 1998–99 season, he was part of Mircea Lucescu's squad that won Rapid București the national title, managing to score 17 goals in the process. With "the White-Burgundies", he also claimed two Cupa României trophies in the 1997–98 and 2001–02 campaigns.
After retiring as a player, Șumudică became an assistant coach at Rapid București in 2005. He went on to manage numerous sides both home and abroad, before bringing Astra Giurgiu its first-ever Liga I title in the 2015–16 season, at his third stint with the club. As a result, Șumudică was named the 2016 Romania Coach of the Year by the Gazeta Sporturilor newspaper. Apart from his time in Romania, he has coached sides in Greece, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.