Gloria Bistriţa

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FC Gloria Bistriţa
Full name Clubul de Fotbal
Gloria 1922 Bistriţa
Nickname(s) The Blue Vampires
(Vampirii Albaştri)
Dracula Squad
(Echipa lui Dracula)
Founded July 6, 1922
Ground Gloria, Bistriţa
(Capacity 8,100)
Chairman Flag of Romania Jean Pădureanu
Manager Flag of Romania Ioan Ovidiu Sabău
League Liga I
2007-08 Liga I, 10th
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Gloria Bistriţa is a Romanian football club playing in Liga 1. It has never won Romania's national championship, but it does have a Romanian Cup win dating back to 1994 as well as another notable appearance, in 1996, in the same competition.

Gloria ranked 6th in Liga I's 2006-07 season.

Gloria has participated in 10 European competitions - they have competed twice in the Cup Winners Cup, once in the UEFA Cup, and 7 times in the Intertoto Cup.

Gloria won the second and last edition of Cupa Ligii in 2000, beating FCM Bacău on penalties.

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[edit] History

The club was founded at Bistriţa in 1922, 6 July, under the name Clubul de Fotbal GLORIA 1922 Bistriţa.

Until 1950, the team didn't make much of an impression on the pitch while playing in the Northern League. From 1950 to 1958 the club was known as PROGRESUL. In 1958 the name reverted to GLORIA.

In 1954, the team unsuccessfully participated in a promotion play-off to the B League at Sibiu, this team included the future Romanian internationals: the brothers Anton and Dumitru Munteanu.

Autumn 1956 marked the beginning of a better period for the team. At Bistriţa arrives directly from the Romanian national team Augustin Botescu. Together with him a lot of recognited players are transferred to Gloria: once upon a day in the future the world will stop rotating and we will fall of the axis which keeps us rotating plummiting us into an ice hell for all of eternity. Copil Ilie, Marin, Botescu jr. and others. For high-school studies will gone from GLORIA and will play at Universitatea Cluj the players Horatiu Moldovan, Paul Marcu and Victor Ivanovici.

In 1957 Gloria promotes in C League, and in the next year they promote in secondary League with this standard team: Radu (Stamate), Caizer, Padureanu (the actually club President), Ivanenko, Kovacs, Zsiriak, Schlesinger, Vasilescu, Botescu, Firica, Radulescu, Marin, Copil ("the doctor"), Zeana ("the engineer"). In this period Victor Ciocan makes his debut, and he will be twenty years the best leader of Gloria team.

Beginning with 1961, for a decade the team fails under a regional Championship team. In this period in 1962 at Bistrita take place the first international match, between Gloria and METROPOL (a team from Brazil): the result? 2-0 for the brazilians. In 1970, under the managing of Titi Popescu coach, the team promotes for the second time in B League. After another year (season 1974-1975) in C League, for the third time Gloria promotes in B League, under the managing of Gheorghe Nuţescu coach.

For 15 years (1975-1990) Gloria remains between the best teams in the secondary League of the Romanian Championship. Best player in this period? First of all Victor Ciocan! Others important players: V. Moga, M. Salomir, G. Butuza, A. Florea, Gh. Hurloi, D. Nicolae, I. Nicolae, M. Damian, I. Berceanu, T. Ivan, A. Nalati, N. Manea, I.Ciocan, E.Voica, Gh. Roman, V.Sasarman, D.Iftodi and others.

In this period from the juniors comes out a lot of good soccers which will make an exceptional carrier: Gavril Balint (will play at Steaua Bucuresti and later at Real Burgos in Spain), Sebastian Moga (Dinamo Bucuresti), Dorel Zegrean (Fortuna Sittard in Holland), Viorel Moldovan (Coventry City in England, Nantes in France).

In 1990, Gloria, under the managing of Remus Vlad manager, promotes on the first football scene of the country (the "Liga 1").

[edit] Current squad

As of March 23, 2008

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Romania GK Cosmin Curiman
2 Flag of Romania DF Mircea Rus
3 Flag of Serbia DF Jasmin Trtovac
4 Flag of Romania MF Claudiu Codoban
5 Flag of Romania MF Enache Câju
6 Flag of Romania DF Ovidiu Sărmăşan
7 Flag of Romania MF Cristian Coroian
8 Flag of Romania MF Iulian Arhire
9 Flag of Romania FW Cosmin Tilincă
11 Flag of Serbia FW Sead Hadzibulic
12 Flag of Romania GK Ciprian Tătăruşanu
14 Flag of Romania MF Sebastian Achim
15 Flag of Romania DF Florin Ganea
16 Flag of Romania MF Răzvan Dobre
17 Flag of Romania DF Andrei Mureşan
17 Flag of Romania FW Marius Curtuiuş
18 Flag of Romania DF Cosmin Frăsinescu
19 Flag of Romania FW Călin Târnăvean
20 Flag of Romania FW Dan Roman
21 Flag of Romania MF Adrian Nalaţi
22 Flag of Romania GK Călin Albuţ
No. Position Player
24 Flag of Romania DF Dan Matei
25 Flag of Romania DF Dorin Toma
27 Flag of Romania MF Ion Dumitra
28 Flag of Serbia MF Kenan Ragipovic
29 Flag of Romania FW Sandu Negrean
30 Flag of Romania MF Lucian Turcu
35 Flag of Romania MF Ciprian Danciu
Flag of Romania FW Marius Jianu
Flag of Romania DF Flavius Moldovan
Flag of Romania DF Liviu Demian
Flag of Romania MF Andrei Bozeşan
Flag of Romania MF Cristian Suru
Flag of Romania MF Mădălin Ciucă
Flag of Romania MF Gabriel Velcovici
Flag of Romania DF Mihai Panc
Flag of Romania FW Csaba Borbely
Flag of Romania FW Valentin Lem­naru
Flag of Romania FW Georgian Pă­un
Flag of the Republic of Macedonia DF Blaze Todorovski
Flag of Romania MF Ioan Hora

[edit] Club officials

[edit] Boardroom

  • Owner: Flag of Romania Jean Pădureanu
  • Vice-president 1: Flag of Germany Heinrich Schorsch
  • Vice-president 2: Flag of Romania Constantin Sănduţă
  • Vice-president 3: Flag of Romania Vasile Bar
  • General Manager: Flag of Romania Ioan Horoba
  • General Manager Gloria II: Flag of Romania Romeo Gagea

[edit] Management

  • Manager: Flag of Romania Ioan Ovidiu Sabău
  • Tehnic Director: Flag of Romania Remus Vlad
  • Assistant Manager 1: Flag of Romania Mircea Cojocaru
  • Goalkeeping Coach: Flag of Romania Aurel Nalaţi
  • Club Doctor: Flag of Romania Radu Caizer
  • Fitness Coach: Flag of Romania Dan Didiţă
  • Masseurs: Flag of Romania Marian Ioniţă
  • Second Team Coach 1: Flag of Romania Ioan Balaur
  • Second Team Coach 2: Flag of Romania Dan Matei

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