Ciprian Prodan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ciprian Cornel Prodan | ||
| Date of birth | 28 April 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Satu Mare, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1996 | Olimpia Satu Mare | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–1999 | Olimpia Satu Mare | 17 | (0) |
| 1999–2001 | ASA Târgu Mureș | 38 | (13) |
| 2001–2002 | Universitatea Cluj | 26 | (12) |
| 2002–2004 | Politehnica Timișoara | 46 | (7) |
| 2004–2005 | Ethnikos Asteras | ||
| 2005–2006 | Brașov | 27 | (14) |
| 2006–2009 | Gaz Metan Mediaș | 85 | (33) |
| 2009–2010 | FCM Târgu Mureș | 20 | (6) |
| 2010 | Victoria Brănești | 9 | (0) |
| 2011 | Spicul Mopan | ||
| 2011–2013 | Olimpia Satu Mare | ||
| Total | 268 | (85) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2013–2017 | Olimpia Satu Mare (assistant) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Ciprian Cornel Prodan (born 28 April 1979) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a forward. Starting and rounding off his career at Olimpia Satu Mare, he spent his career in Romania except one year in Greece.
Career
[edit]Prodan was born on 28 April 1979 in Satu Mare, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1986 at local club Olimpia.[1] He started his senior career at Olimpia during the 1995–96 Divizia B season.[1] He helped them gain promotion to the first league at the end of the 1997–98 season.[1] Subsequently, Prodan made his Divizia A debut on 10 April 1999 under coach Gheorghe Staicu in a 1–0 loss to Foresta Suceava.[1][2] However, he could not avoid the team's relegation to Divizia B.[1][3] In the middle of the 1999–2000 season, he left Olimpia to join ASA Târgu Mureș.[1] For the 2001–02 season, Prodan went to play for Universitatea Cluj, scoring 12 goals in 26 league appearances.[1][4] In 2002, he returned to Divizia a football, signing with Politehnica Timișoara.[1] There, he scored his first top-tier goal on 15 November 2002 in a 2–0 win over Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț.[1][5] Following two seasons with Politehnica, he spent the 2004–05 season at Greek second-tier club Ethnikos Asteras.[1] Afterwards, Prodan returned to Romania and went to Divizia B club Brașov, where he showed an appetite for goals, netting 14 times during the 2005–06 season.[1] In 2006, he moved to another second-tier club Gaz Metan Mediaș, continuing to score regularly there.[1] He helped them gain promotion in the 2007–08 season by scoring 15 goals under coach Cristian Pustai, forming a successful offensive trio with Claudiu Boaru and Eric de Oliveira.[1][6] After spending the 2008–09 season in the first league with Gaz Metan, he returned to the second league by joining FCM Târgu Mureș for the 2009–10 season and scored six goals to help them achieve promotion.[1][7] Prodan's next spell was at Victoria Brănești, where he made his last Liga I appearance on 4 October 2010 in a 0–0 draw against his former side FCM Târgu Mureș, totaling 88 matches with nine goals in the competition.[8] He spent the following years of his career in the third league for Spicul Mopan and Olimpia Satu Mare.[1] After he helped the latter gain promotion to the second league in the 2012–13 season, Prodan retired.[1]
Personal life
[edit]His older brother, Daniel, was also a professional footballer.[9]
Honours
[edit]Olimpia Satu Mare
FCM Târgu Mureș
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Ciprian Prodan at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
- ↑ "Olimpia Satu Mare 0 – 1 Foresta Falticeni". Labtof.ro. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
- ↑ "1998/99 Divizia A". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
- ↑ "Ciprian Prodan profile". 4everucluj.ro. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
- ↑ "Ciprian Prodan. 2002/03 Divizia A". WorldFootball. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
- ↑ "Gaz Metan Mediaș, la al patrulea sezon în elită" (in Romanian). Bzb.ro. 10 July 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
"Sărbătoare pentru Gaz Metan!" (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 11 May 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
"S-au răzgândit" (in Romanian). Tribuna.ro. 24 May 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2026. - ↑ "Liga II 2009/10 season". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
"FCM Târgu Mureş a promovat în Liga I" (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 5 June 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2026. - ↑ "Şi Ciprian Prodan este dorit la Alba Iulia!" (in Romanian). Alba-sport.ro. 31 August 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
"Victoria Brăneşti – FCM Târgu Mureş, scor 0-0, în Liga I" (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 4 October 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
"Ciprian Prodan profile". Labtof.ro. Retrieved 8 August 2026. - ↑ "Fraţii Prodan îşi comemorează tatăl cu un turneu de fotbal" (in Romanian). Informația Zilei. 26 October 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
"Mesajul lui Ciprian Prodan, fratele lui Didi, pentru șeful FRF: "O să te urmăresc toată viața"!" (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
External links
[edit]- Ciprian Prodan at WorldFootball.net
- Ciprian Prodan at Soccerway
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Satu Mare
- Romanian men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Liga I players
- Liga II players
- FC Olimpia Satu Mare players
- ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș players
- FC Universitatea Cluj players
- FC Politehnica Timișoara players
- FC Brașov (1936) players
- CS Gaz Metan Mediaș players
- CS Brănești players
- Ethnikos Asteras F.C. players
- Romanian expatriate men's footballers
- Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
- Expatriate men's footballers in Greece