Adrian Mihalcea

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Adrian Mihalcea

Full name	Adrian Dumitru Mihalcea
Date of birth	May 24, 1976 (1976-05-24) (age 32)
Place of birth	Slobozia, Romania
Height	180 cm (5'11")
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	AEL Limassol
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995-1996 1996-2001 2001-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005 2005-2006 2006-2008 2008-	Dunarea Calarasi Dinamo Bucharest Genoa 1893 Hellas Verona Dinamo Bucharest Chunnam Dragons FC Vaslui Aris Limassol AEL Limassol	34 (4) 164 (67) 40 (11) 20 (5) 17 (1) 3 (0) 13 (1) 23 (15)
National team
1998-2003	Romania	16 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Adrian Mihalcea (born May 24, 1976 in Slobozia, Romania) is a Romanian international football striker who currently plays with AEL Limassol in Cyprus. He has been capped 16 times for his country but has never scored at international level.

Mihalcea spent many years playing with one of the top Romanian teams, Dinamo Bucharest, where he won the Romanian First Division championship in 2000 and the Romanian Cup in 2000 and again in 2001.

Mihalcea started the 2001 season for Dinamo Bucharest in excellent form, scoring 11 goals in 14 league matches, and earned 5th place in the competition for the 2001 Romanian Footballer of the Year award. This performance attracted the interest of Italian Serie B side Genoa 1893, and Mihalcea signed for the club in January 2002. The following season Mihalcea scored 9 goals in Serie B and was Genoa's leading goalscorer for the campaign. In summer 2003, he was sold to fellow Serie B club Hellas Verona and enjoyed another good season scoring 5 goals in 20 league matches for his new club.

In recent years, however, Mihalcea's career has been in decline. A return to Dinamo Bucharest in 2004 was disappointing, with Mihalcea struggling for goals as the team narrowly missed out on the Romanian championship.

Mihalcea was sold again, this time to Romanian club FC Vaslui, but again struggled for goals and was dropped from the Romanian national squad due to his poor form and lack of scoring.

In summer 2006, Mihalcea moved to Cypriot side Aris Limassol in an attempt to resurrect his career. Although his new club has been struggling in the league during the 2007 season, Mihalcea is currently 2nd in the Cypriot league goal scoring charts with 13.

In May 2008, following the relegation of Aris Limassol to the Cypriot second division, Mihalcea was transferred to AEL Limassol club.

Mihalcea's international career with Romania has not lived up to his early promise, as he played 10 times for the Romanian under-21 team, scoring 3 goals, and was tipped to be a star of the future by Ilie Dumitrescu. He was promoted to the Romanian international squad in 1998 but failed to score in 16 appearances and was overlooked for the European Championships in 2000 and last capped by Romania in 2003.