Marian Aliuţă

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Marian Aliuţă

Full name	Marian Aliuţă
Date of birth	February 3, 1978 (1978-02-03) (age 30)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Politehnica Timişoara
Number	7
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995-1996 1995-1996 1996-1997 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-2000 2000-2002 2002-2004 2004-2005 2005 2005-2006 2006 2006-2007 2007-	Steaua Bucureşti Steaua Mizil Chindia Târgovişte Gloria Bistriţa Farul Constanţa Sheriff Tiraspol Shakhtar Donetsk Steaua Bucureşti Rapid Bucureşti Chunnam Dragons Metalurh Donetsk Changchun Yatai Iraklis Thessaloniki Politehnica Timişoara	0 - (-) 14 (4) 17 (2) 12 (0) 25 (2) 26 (3) 47 (1) 50 (5) 10 (1) 0 - (-) 23 (2) 13 (1) 10 (1) 24 (1)
National team²
2001-	Romania	4 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 7, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of April 5, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Marian Aliuţă, (born February 4, 1978 in Bucharest), is a Romanian football player, currently under contract with FCU Politehnica Timişoara. However, he signed for the club after the end of the winter transfer window and therefore does not have the right to play for Poli until next season.

Aliuţă stated to play football at Steaua Bucharest and as soon as he reached the age of 18 is loaned to Steaua Mizil and then to Chindia Târgovişte and Gloria Bistriţa. Released from him contract with Steaua, Aliuţă signed with FC Farul Constanţa in 1997 and then with Sheriff Tiraspol one year later.

1999 finds him in Ukraine, playing for Shakhtar Donetsk from where he returned to Romania in 2002 to finally make his debut for Steaua Bucharest, at that time being, with USD135,000 the highest paid footballer from Divizia A. Despite being voted as The Best Player of Divizia A at the end of 2002-03 season, Aliuţă leaves Steaua after an altercation with the club's Chief Executive Mihai Stoica. Rapid Bucharest is his next club, which he left after only few weeks to play in Korea for Chunnam Dragons and then in the 2005-06 season he played for FC Metalurg Donetsk. In November of 2006 he signed a two-year contract with Iraklis Thessaloniki.