Sergiu Radu

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Personal information
Sergiu Radu
Full name	Sergiu Marian Radu
Date of birth	August 10, 1977 (1977-08-10) (age 30)
Place of birth	Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	VfB Stuttgart
Number	39
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996–1998 1997–1998 1998–2001 2001–2003 2003–2004 2005 2005–2007 2007– 2008– 2008	Jiul Petroşani Olimpia Satu Mare (loan) Rapid Bucharest FC Naţional Bucureşti Le Mans UC72 FC Naţional Bucureşti Energie Cottbus VfL Wolfsburg → VfB Stuttgart (loan) VfL Wolfsburg	14 0(0) 23 (12) 54 (14) 57 (21) 15 0(0) 15 0(7) 67 (26) 11 0(2) 02 0(0)
National team²
2007–	Romania	01 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 December 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 23 September 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Sergiu Marian Radu (born 10 August 1977 in Râmnicu Vâlcea) is a Romanian professional football (soccer) player, currently playing for German club Vfl Wolfsburg.

Beginning his career in his native Romania, Radu started out at Jiul Petroşani, before leaving in 1998 for Rapid Bucharest. He moved to Bucharest rivals FC Naţional three years later.

2003 brought his first move to a foreign club, Le Mans UC72 in France. However this was not a successful period, and after fifteen goalless matches he returned to Naţional. He moved to Germany in 2005 to join Cottbus, then a Bundesliga 2 club. Cottbus won promotion in 2006, with Radu's contribution being 12 goals in 33 games. In the next season with Energie Cottbus in the Bundesliga he scored 14 goals in 34 matches, being the goal-scorer of his team.

In July 2007, he made a permanent move to VfL Wolfsburg.

In January 2008 he was loaned to VfB Stuttgart, who have the option to sign the forward permanently.^[1]^[2]