Dan Petrescu is a well-known Romanian coach, and in the past a footballer who now heads Al-Nasr from the United Arab Emirates. Dan Petrescu’s career was incredibly intense, both in his youth and when he already became a coach. When Petrescu was a football player, he played in the position of right-back. Professional performances by Dan Petrescu ended in 2003, when at the age of 36 he announced his retirement.
Biography
Dan Petrescu was born December 22, 1967 in the Romanian capital Bucharest. However, at the same time he has not only Romanian, but also British citizenship, which he received when he played in England. As for his personal life, Petrescu was married twice. He broke up with his first wife in 2003, and in 2008 he remarried. He and his wife Adriana have three daughters, two of whom Dan had left from a previous marriage.
Club career
Dan Petrescu’s football appearances began in Romania, where he was brought up from an early age by the academy of one of the country's most powerful clubs, Steaua. At the age of eighteen, he signed a professional contract with the team and from 1985 to 1991 played for this club. In total, he played 151 matches for Steaua, and also in Romania played 25 games for Olt Skornichesti on loan.
In 1991, Dana Petrescu’s career changed dramatically, as he went on a promotion and moved to Italy, where he played for Foggia for two years and Genoa for another year. Unlike the Romanian championship, where Petrescu won three championships and two cups, and also once reached the final of the Champions League, in Italy he did not expect great success, but it was Foggia and Genoa that became a great springboard for him.
In 1994, he moved to England, where he played for a year and a half for Sheffield before climbing to the top of his career. In the winter of 1996, Dan Petrescu moved to London Chelsea, for which he played four and a half years, entered the field 207 times, won the FA Cup, the FA Cup and the Champions League. Since 2000, the defender's career began to decline, he first moved to Bradford, then to Southampton, after which he returned to Romania in 2002. The last football club of Dana Petrescu is National, in which he played his last season before announcing his retirement in the summer of 2003.
Career Team
Petrescu made his debut in Romania in March 1989 and has since spent as many as 94 matches for the national team. This is the sixth indicator among all Romanian football players in the history of the national team. Petrescu was at the 1994 World Cup, where he scored a goal against the hosts of the tournament, which allowed the Romanians to leave the group. He was also at the 1996 European Championships and the 1998 World Championships, where he scored a goal against the English. The last major tournament in Petrescu was the European Championship 2000.
Career coach
Dan Petrescu, whose biography did not end within the field, but continued outside it, became a coach immediately after the completion of his football career. In the summer of 2003, he led the Romanian Sportul, which he led for one season and won the First League of Romania. Following this, Petrescu became the head of the Polish Wisla, with whom he took second place in the Polish championship, and in 2006 he stayed for a long time in the Romanian Unira club. He stayed there for almost three and a half years and won the Romanian championship before moving to Russia in winter 2009 to lead the Kuban.
He spent another three seasons driving one club, leading him to victory in the First Division in 2010, after which he moved to Dynamo Moscow. There he failed to achieve success, so he went to the Qatari Al-Arabi, which he led for a very short time. In the summer of 2015, Petrescu returned to Romania and headed “Tirgu Mures”, with whom he won the Roman Super Cup, but a month later he went to work in China, where he was offered an incredible contract in Jiangsu Saint. With this club he won the Chinese Cup, and in the summer of 2016 he returned to Russia to head the Kuban, from which he was dismissed in October of that year. On October 29, 2016, Petrescu was led by Al-Nasr from the UAE, which he now leads.