Cătălin Răducan Necula (born 4 December 1969) is a retired

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n football player, known for his association with football manager

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, currently working at

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as assistant manager.

Playing career

Necula, son of the famous Romanian

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Răducanu Necula, started his career at Sportul Studențesc București in 1988. He spent four seasons at Sportul before switching to

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in 1993. In 1995, he joined Naţional București and then in 1998 he played for a short while for

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. After he returned to

, he continued to play for FCM Reşiţa,

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, Bihor Oradea, Argeş Piteşti and

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, before retiring from professional football in 2004. Necula earned four caps for the

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national side in 1993.

Coaching career

In 2004, Necula returned to Naţional București, this time as assistant coach and then in the autumn of 2005 he was for a short while the team's head coach. When

took over at

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in the winter of 2005 he asked Necula to join him as assistant manager. Since then he joined the coaching staff of

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