Ovidiu Burcă

Ovidiu Burcă
Burcă warming up before a game
Personal information
Full name Ovidiu Nicușor Burcă
Date of birth (1980-03-16) 16 March 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Slatina, Romania
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 Voluntari (head coach)
Youth career
1986–1996 Olt Scornicești
1996–1998 Școala de Fotbal Gheorghe Popescu
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–1999 Emelec 6 (0)
1999[1] JEF United Ichihara 4 (0)
2000 Ventforet Kofu 16 (1)
2001–2002 Universitatea Craiova 25 (0)
2002–2005 Dinamo București 48 (0)
2005–2007 Național București 39 (2)
2007–2010 Energie Cottbus 39 (0)
2008 → Beijing Guoan (loan) 15 (1)
2010–2011 Politehnica Timișoara 20 (0)
2011–2012 Rapid București 24 (1)
Total 236 (5)
International career
2001 Romania U21 4 (0)
Managerial career
2014–2015 Oțelul Galați (sporting director)
2015–2020 Rapid București (president)
2020 Rapid București (sporting director)
2020–2021 Rapid București U19
2021 Rapid II București
2021–2022 CSM Slatina
2022–2023 Dinamo București
2024– Voluntari
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ovidiu Nicușor Burcă (born 16 March 1980) is a Romanian football manager, currently in charge of Liga II club Voluntari.

Club career

Early career

Born in Slatina, Burcă began his youth career at Școala de Fotbal Gheorghe Popescu.

Emelec

He began his professional career in Ecuador at Club Sport Emelec in the Primera Categoría Serie A league making six appearances.

JEF United Ichihara

A year later he got noticed by the Japanese club JEF United Ichihara and signed with them. He played there only four matches and impressed the scouts of Ventforet Kofu and he was transferred immediately.

Ventforet Kofu

Burcă played sixteen matches and scored one goal for Ventforet.

Universitatea Craiova

After a year in Ecuador and near two years in Japan, Burcă returned to Romania to play for FC Universitatea Craiova a total of 25 matches, which impressed FC Dinamo București who signed him.

Dinamo București

He won with them the Romanian League during the 2003–04 season. After spending three years with Dinamo, Burcă signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with FC Național.

Energie Cottbus

In June 2007, Bundesliga side Energie Cottbus announced signing him a three-year contract. However, in his first Bundesliga season at the club he did not make any appearance due a serious injury, which resulted a year break in the 2007–08 season. Burcă was one of the key players at Cottbus and they named him as captain in 2009. He was loaned out in 2008 to Chinese club Beijing Guoan.

Politehnica Timișoara

After his contract expired with the German side, Burcă signed a one-year contract with FC Politehnica Timișoara returning to Liga 1 after three years. He was handed the number 25 shirt.[2] He made his debut in a Europa League play-off against Manchester City in a 2–0 loss.

Honours

Player

Dinamo București

Național București

Rapid București

Coach

CSM Slatina

References

  1. ^ J.League
  2. ^ "Burcă signed with Poli". FC Timişoara. 10 August 2010.