Daniel Tudor (footballer)

Romanian footballer and coach

Daniel Tudor
Personal information
Full name Daniel Ovidiu Tudor
Date of birth (1974-06-01) 1 June 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth Frăsinet, Romania
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Universitatea Craiova (GK coach)
Youth career
0000–1993 Metalul Frăsinet
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1995 Flacăra Moreni[a] 19 (0)
1995–2003 Dinamo București 10 (0)
1997 → Flacăra Moreni (loan)
1998 → Farul Constanța (loan) 7 (0)
1998–2000 → Rocar București (loan) 33 (0)
2000–2002 → Universitatea Craiova (loan) 19 (0)
2003–2006 Fehérvár 81 (1)
2006–2008 UTA Arad 47 (0)
2008–2010 Unirea Urziceni 13 (0)
2011 Juventus București 7 (0)
Total 236 (1)
Managerial career
2011–2012 CFR Cluj (GK coach)
2012–2013 CFR Cluj (GK coach)
2013–2014 Kuban Krasnodar (GK coach)
2015–2017 FC Krasnodar (GK coach)
2017 Terek Grozny (GK coach)
2018 Dinamo București (GK coach)
2018 Arsenal Tula (GK coach)
2018–2019 Spartak Moscow (GK coach)
2020 Riga FC (GK coach)
2020–2021 CFR Cluj (GK coach)
2021–2022 Al-Ittihad (GK coach)
2022 Universitatea Craiova (GK coach)
2022–2023 Universitatea Craiova (GK coach)
2024– Universitatea Craiova (GK coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Daniel Ovidiu Tudor (born 1 June 1974) is a Romanian football coach and a former goalkeeper, currently goalkeeping coach at Liga I club Universitatea Craiova.

Career

Daniel Tudor was born on 1 June 1974 in Frăsinet, Romania.[1] He started playing senior level football in 1993 at Flacăra Moreni in Divizia B.[1] In 1995 he went to play for Dinamo București where on 27 February 1996 coach Marian Bondrea gave him his Divizia A debut in a 1–0 away loss in front of Argeș Pitești.[1][2] In the following years Tudor was loaned by Dinamo to various teams of Romanian football, firstly back at Moreni but this time in the third league, then at Farul Constanța in Divizia A, afterwards at Rocar București which he helped promote from the second to the first league, his last loan being at Universitatea Craiova in the first league.[1] He came back to Dinamo for the 2002–03 season at end of which he won under the guidance of coach Ioan Andone the Cupa României, keeping a clean sheet in the 1–0 win over Național București from the final, being named "The man of the match".[1][3][4]

In July 2003, Tudor signed with Fehérvár where he was colleague with fellow Romanians Gabriel Vochin, Marian Savu and Ion Voicu.[5] On 26 July coach János Csank gave him his Nemzeti Bajnokság I debut in a 1–1 with Pécsi.[6][7] On 22 May 2004 he scored the only goal of his career from a penalty in a 6–1 win over Lombard Pápa.[1][6][8] In his last season he won the 2005–06 Magyar Kupa but coach Aurél Csertői did not use him in the final.[3][9] During his period spent at Fehérvár he was nicknamed "Pink Panther", at one point the Hungarians considering giving him Hungarian citizenship in order to play for the national team, however he left because of some unpaid salaries, moving back to Romania at UTA Arad.[1][3]

After two seasons at Arad he signed with Unirea Urziceni with whom in his first season he won the title but coach Dan Petrescu used him in only two matches as first-choice goalkeeper was Giedrius Arlauskis.[1][3][10] Afterwards he participated with Urziceni in the 2009–10 Champions League group stage, on 20 October 2009 he made his single appearance in the competition, saving a Steven Davis penalty to help his side win 4–1 with Rangers on the Ibrox Stadium.[3][11][12] In the same season on 10 April 2010, Tudor played his last Liga I match, a 1–1 with FC Vaslui, having a total of 114 appearances in the competition.[1][13] He completely ended his career after playing seven games for Juventus București in the second half of the 2010–11 Liga II season.[1][14]

Honours

Dinamo București

Fehérvár

Unirea Urziceni

Notes

  1. ^ The statistics for the 1993–94 Divizia B season are not available.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Daniel Tudor at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1995–96". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "EXCLUSIV A fost la Dinamo, dar a plecat în Rusia și e categoric: "Am condiții prea bune ca să revin în România" Dezvăluiri despre cum a luat Urziceni titlul" [EXCLUSIVE He was at Dinamo, but he left for Russia and he is definitely: "I have too good conditions to return to Romania" Revelations about how Urziceni won the title] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 13 January 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Romanian Cup – Season 2002–2003". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Impresarul Tiberiu Bordaș se lansează în lumea transferurilor Trei vedete pentru FC Oradea" [Agent Tiberiu Bordaș launches into the world of transfers Three stars for FC Oradea] (in Romanian). Crisana.ro. 25 July 2003. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Daniel Tudor profile". Magyarfutball.hu. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Videoton - Pecsi 1 : 1". Magyarfutball.hu. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  8. ^ "Videoton FC Fehérvár - Lombard FC Haladás 6 : 1". Magyarfutball.hu. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  9. ^ "Vasas SC - FC Fehérvár 2 : 2". Magyarfutball.hu. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  11. ^ "Rangers 1 - 4 Unirea Urziceni". BBC. 20 October 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  12. ^ "Rangers - Unirea Urziceni 1-4. Victorie istorică pentru români!" [Rangers - Unirea Urziceni 1-4. Historical victory for the Romanians!] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 20 October 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  13. ^ "Rusescu egaleaza in prelungiri: Vaslui 1-1 Urziceni (Akakpo '25 / Rusescu '90)" [Rusescu draws in stoppage time: Vaslui 1-1 Urziceni (Akakpo '25 / Rusescu '90)] (in Romanian). Sport.ro. 10 April 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  14. ^ "Daniel Tudor a dat Steaua pe Colentina!" [Daniel Tudor gave Steaua for Colentina!] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 6 February 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  • Daniel Tudor at WorldFootball.net
  • Daniel Tudor at Soccerway