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Marius Predatu
Romanian footballer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marius Predatu (born 15 August 1967) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a striker.[2][3]
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Club career
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Predatu was born on 15 August 1967 in Sibiu, Romania and began playing junior-level football at local club Inter.[1][4] In the 1989–90 season he started his senior career, playing 26 Divizia A games in which he scored six goals for Inter.[1] In the middle of the following season he went to play for Argeș Pitești for one and a half years.[1]
In 1992 he signed with Universitatea Cluj where in his first season under the guidance of coach Remus Vlad he scored a personal record of 14 goals.[1][4][5] Among these were four in a 5–0 win against Rapid București which earned him the nickname "Ïl Principe", and he also became a fan-favorite, the team's gallery chanting:Marius Predatu, va băga patru (Marius Predatu, will give four).[6][7] In the following two seasons he appeared and scored regularly for "U".[1][4] Subsequently, he went to play for the 1995–96 season in the Greek first league at Panionios, alongside fellow Romanians Marian Ivan and coach Emerich Jenei, scoring eight goals in 28 matches.[1][4][8]
In 1997, Predatu returned for a short while at Universitatea Cluj, but spent the rest of the season at Gloria Bistrița.[1][4] Afterwards he went for a third spell at "U" Cluj, staying two seasons.[1][4] Then he signed for a second spell at Bistrița where he stayed one year, making his last Divizia A appearances, having a total of 253 games with 67 goals in the competition.[1][4]
In the 2000–01 season, Predatu played for the last time for Universitatea Cluj, on this occasion in Divizia C, under player-coach Ioan Sabău, helping the team win promotion to Divizia B.[4][9]
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International career
Predatu played one game for Romania, when on 14 April 1993, coach Cornel Dinu sent him in the 64th minute to replace Gheorghe Ceaușilă in a 2–1 victory against Cyprus in the 1994 World Cup qualifiers.[10]
Coaching career
After he ended his playing career, Predatu worked as a youth coach for Universitatea Cluj.[6] He coached the senior side of Arieșul Mihai Viteazu in the 2021–22 Liga IV season, but resigned after a loss in the first round.[11]
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Universitatea Cluj
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