Bogdan Stelea

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Bogdan Stelea
Personal information
Full name	Bogdan Gheorghe Stelea
Date of birth	December 5, 1967 (1967-12-05) (age 40)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.88 m : 85 kg
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Unirea Urziceni
Number	12
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986 1987 1987-1992 1992-1993 1993 1994 1994-1995 1995-1997 1997-2002 2002 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005 2006 2006-2008 2008-	Dinamo Bucureşti Politehnica Iaşi Dinamo Bucureşti RCD Mallorca Standard Liège Rapid Bucureşti Samsunspor Steaua Bucureşti UD Salamanca Rapid Bucureşti UD Salamanca Dinamo Bucureşti Akratitos Oţelul Galaţi Unirea Urziceni FC Brasov	1 (0)  ? (0) 97 (0) 27 (0) 3 (0) 13 (0) 31 (0) 47 (0) 109 (0) 10 (0) 36 (0) 13 (0) 14 (0) 0 (0) 27 (0) 0 (0)
National team2
1988-2005	Romania	91 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of August 6, 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of August 6, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Bogdan Gheorghe Stelea (born 5 December 1967) is a Romanian football goalkeeper. He was born in Bucharest and started his career with Dinamo Bucureşti. He then spent large parts of his career in Spain.

[edit] Club Career

Bogdan Stelea started playing football at Dinamo Bucharest in 1988 as a substitute goalkeeper and after 2 years became the first goalkeeper in his team, played in 37 games.

In 1992 after he won the champion title with Dinamo he was transferred to RCD Mallorca for $650.000. After 2 seasons in Spain he went in Belgium to Standard Liege but played only in 3 games so he came back in Romania to Rapid Bucharest for a year.

After one season in Turkey to Samsunspor he returned one more time in Romania to the champion team Steaua Bucharest and won 2 titles with them and participated for 2 times in UEFA Champions League.

In 1997 Bogdan Stelea was transferred to UD Salamanca in Spain and stayed there 7 seasons between 1997-2002 and 2002-2004 with a new come back in Romania to Rapid in 2002.

After some games for Dinamo and Akratitos he signed in 2005 for Otelul Galati but didn't play any match because of an bad injury.

In 2006 he signed with Unirea Urziceni at the recommendation of his new couch and former national teammate, Dan Petrescu. He slowly began winning the first place as the goalkepeer for Unirea.

In 2008, at the age of 40, he was one of the best goalkepeers in the 2007-08 season in Liga I.

[edit] International Career

Stelea made his debut for the national team in 1988, and represented his country at the 1990 World Cup, 1994 World Cup, Euro 1996, 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. He has been capped 91 times, the last against Slovakia in 2005.

[edit] External links

• Career history at National Football Teams

v • d • e Romania squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup 1 Lung • 2 Rednic • 3 Klein • 4 Andone • 5 Rotariu • 6 G. Popescu • 7 Lăcătuş • 8 Sabău • 9 Cămătaru • 10 Hagi • 11 Lupu • 12 Stelea • 13 A. Popescu • 14 Răducioiu • 15 Mateuţ • 16 Timofte • 17 Dumitrescu • 18 Balint • 19 Săndoi • 20 Muzsnay • 21 Lupescu • 22 Liliac • Coach: Jenei

v • d • e Romania squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup 1 Prunea • 2 Petrescu • 3 Prodan • 4 Belodedici • 5 Lupescu • 6 Popescu • 7 Munteanu • 8 Chiriţă • 9 Răducioiu • 10 Hagi • 11 Dumitrescu • 12 Stelea • 13 Selymes • 14 Mihali • 15 Panduru • 16 Vlădoiu • 17 Moldovan • 18 Gâlcă • 19 Papură • 20 Stîngă • 21 Ivan • 22 Preda • Coach: Iordănescu

v • d • e Romania squad - UEFA Euro 1996 1 Stelea • 2 Petrescu • 3 Prodan • 4 Belodedici • 5 Lupescu • 6 Popescu • 7 Lăcătuş • 8 Sabău • 9 Răducioiu • 10 Hagi • 11 Munteanu • 12 Prunea • 13 Selymes • 14 Gâlcă • 15 Doboş • 16 Mihali • 17 Filipescu • 18 Stîngă • 19 Ilie • 20 Moldovan • 21 Vlădoiu • 22 Tene • Coach: Iordănescu

v • d • e Romania squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Stângaciu • 2 Petrescu • 3 Dulca • 4 Doboş • 5 Gâlcă • 6 Gheorghe Popescu • 7 Lăcătuş • 8 Munteanu • 9 Moldovan • 10 Hagi • 11 Ilie • 12 Stelea • 13 Ciobotariu • 14 Niculescu • 15 Marinescu • 16 Gabriel Popescu • 17 Dumitrescu • 18 Filipescu • 19 Stîngă • 20 Selymes • 21 Craioveanu • 22 Prunea • Coach: Iordănescu

v • d • e Romania squad - UEFA Euro 2000 1 Lobonţ • 2 Petrescu • 3 Ciobotariu • 4 Filipescu • 5 Gâlcă • 6 Popescu • 7 Mutu • 8 Munteanu • 9 Moldovan • 10 Hagi • 11 Ilie • 12 Stelea • 13 Chivu • 14 Petre • 15 Lupescu • 16 Roşu • 17 Belodedici • 18 Ganea • 19 Lincar • 20 Hîldan • 21 Prunea • 22 Contra • Coach: Jenei

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