Mihai Neşu
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Mihai Neşu | ||
Personal information | ||
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Full name | Mihai Mircea Neşu | |
Date of birth | February 19, 1983 | |
Place of birth | Oradea, Romania | |
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 91⁄2 in) | |
Playing position | Left Back | |
Club information | ||
Current club | Steaua Bucureşti | |
Number | 15 | |
Youth clubs | ||
Steaua Bucureşti | ||
Senior clubs1 | ||
Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
2001- | Steaua Bucureşti | 82 (1) |
National team2 | ||
2005- | Romania | 4 (0) |
1 Senior club appearances and goals |
Mihai Mircea Neşu (born February 19, 1983 in Oradea) is a Romanian football player, who played his entire career for Steaua Bucureşti.
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[edit] Club career
[edit] Steaua Bucuresti (2001-present)
He signed his first professional contract in 2001 with Steaua Bucuresti and this team remained the only team for which he played in his entire career.
He debuted on April 21, 2002 in a game against Petrolul Ploiesti which was ended 1-1.
In the first two seasons he didn't play too much, only 13 games, and his best performance was the vice- champion title in 2002-2003.
They succeeded the same performance in the next season when Nesu played more, 13 games.
In the season 2004-2005 he won his first champion title with Steaua and he succeeded to score his first goal in Divizia A, although he played only 7 games.
In the next year he played in 19 games and Steaua won for the second consecutive year the title of champion team.
After Ogararu's transfer to Ajax Amsterdam, Mihai Nesu won a place in the first "eleven" and now is a basic player for the team.
In the European Cups he played in 20 games but didn't score any game. He debuted in the season 2003-2004 in UEFA Cup when played 3 games.
After only one European game in 2004-2005 he had in the next season very good results and Nesu played in all four games for the qualifiers in UEFA Champions League. After this he played in UEFA Cup and succeeded to defeat teams like Lens, Heerenveen, Betis Sevilla and Rapid Bucuresti, but they were eliminated in the semi-final by Middlesbrough.
In the season 2006-2007 Steaua with Nesu as a titular player eliminated Standard Liege and succeeded after 10 years to qualify in UEFA Champions League groups in a group with Real Madrid, Olympique Lyonnais and Dynamo Kiev.
As of May 09, 2008 Neşu played 73 games in Liga I of Romania, scoring once. All the games were played under Steaua's badge.
[edit] International career
He also won four caps for Romania, his first in 2005, against Ivory Coast.
[edit] Trivia
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- Neşu is the son of a famous Romanian soccer referee.
- In 1999, aged 16, he was on a trial with the Dutch team PSV Eindhoven.
- He married Maria Laura Gherman in June of 2006.
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