Flavius Vladimir Stoican (born 24 November 1976) is a Romanian professional football

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

and former player, currently in charge of

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club

Botoșani Botoșani () is the capital city of Botoșani County, in the northern part of Moldavia, Romania. Today, it is best known as the birthplace of many celebrated Romanians, including Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga and Grigore Antipa. Origin of the ...

Club career

He started his football career at

FC Drobeta FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin was a Romanian professional football club from Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, Romania, founded in 1958 and dissolved in 2011. History ''FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin'' was never able to reach the Liga I, playing a ...

, but soon he left them for Universitatea Craviova, where he played for seven years. In the summer of 2002, Stoican moved to Romanian giants Dinamo București. While playing for Dinamo,

Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was ...

manager,

Mircea Lucescu Mircea Lucescu (; born 29 July 1945) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently head coach of Ukrainian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv. He is one of the most decorated managers of all time. Lucescu is also ...

, spotted Stoican's abilities and brought him to the

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League' ...

club in the summer of 2003. He spent four years at Shakhtar before moving to

Metalist Kharkiv Football Club Metalist Kharkiv ( uk, Футбо́льний Клуб Металі́ст Ха́рків ) is a Ukrainian football club based in Kharkiv that plays in the Ukrainian First League during the 2021–22 season. It was revived 5 years ...

. He did not manage to find a place in the first team at Metalist and moved back to Dinamo București for the final year of his playing career.

International career

From 1999 to 2005, Stoican made 19 appearances for

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, making his debut under coach Victor Pițurcă when he came as a substitute and replaced

Dan Petrescu Daniel Vasile Petrescu (; born 22 December 1967) is a Romanian football manager and former player, who is currently in charge of Liga I club CFR Cluj. As a player, Petrescu was deployed as a full-back or a winger and represented Premier Le ...

in a friendly against

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which ended 2–2. He played two games at the Euro 2004 qualifiers and six at the 2006 World Cup qualifiers. Stoican's last game for the national team was a friendly against

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which ended with a 3–0 victory.

International stats

Managerial career

In 2009, after ending his player career, Stoican was appointed manager of

Liga III The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. Its name was changed from Divizia C to Liga III before the start of the 2006–07 season. It was the first in this format (six series of 18 ...

club Minerul Valea Copcii. For the

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season he moved to

CSM Reșița Clubul Sportiv Muncitoresc Reșița (), commonly known as CSM Reșița or simply as Reșița, is a professional football club based in Reșița, Romania, currently playing in the Liga III. The club was founded on 25 May 1926 as ''UD (Uzinele ...

, and in July 2011 he was appointed head coach of Dinamo II București. After only six months, he resigned from Dinamo II and took control of Chindia Târgoviște. He left Chindia in September 2012, after a poor series of results. In October 2012, Stoican became head coach at Mioveni, with the primary objective of helping the team gain promotion to

Dinamo

In August 2013, he came back to Dinamo II, now playing in the

, with the objective of gaining promotion to

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. On 22 September 2013, Stoican was appointed as head coach at the main squad of

FC Dinamo București Fotbal Club Dinamo București (), commonly known as Dinamo București or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest. Founded in 1948, they have spent almost their entire history in Romania's top tier, the Liga ...

. His contract was terminated by mutual agreement on 12 November 2014, when the club was placed sixth in

and was eliminated from the Romanian Cup. From March to May 2015, Stoican had another brief spell in charge of Dinamo.

Politehnica Iași

In the summer of 2017, after his ambitious stint at Pandurii Târgu Jiu almost saved them from relegation to

, Stoican was appointed head coach at Politehnica Iași. On 24 February 2018, in spite of a 0–1 loss to defending champions Viitorul Constanța, Stoican led Politehnica Iași to its first Liga I Championship play-off and to an eventual sixth-place finish at the end of the season.

Mioveni

On 24 August 2022, Stoican was appointed head coach at Mioveni on a one-year contract. His contract was terminated by mutual agreement on 1 November 2022.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Dinamo București * Cupa României: 2002–03 Shakhtar Donetsk *

: 2004–05, 2005–06 *

Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( uk, Кубок України) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003� ...

: 2003–04 *

Ukrainian Super Cup The Ukrainian Super Cup ( uk , Суперкубок України) is an association football game of the Ukrainian Premier League in traditional super cup format that acts as the grand-opening for every new football competition season in Ukrain ...

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Personal life

His daughter Lorena is a professional handball player, who currently plays for SCM Craiova.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoican, Flavius 1976 births Living people People from Vânju Mare Romanian footballers Association football defenders Romania international footballers Romanian expatriate footballers FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin players FC Metalist Kharkiv players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC U Craiova 1948 players FC Dinamo București players Liga I players Ukrainian Premier League players Expatriate footballers in Ukraine Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Romanian football managers Liga I managers Liga II managers CSM Reșița managers AFC Chindia Târgoviște managers CS Mioveni managers FC Dinamo București managers FC Voluntari managers FC Zimbru Chișinău managers CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu managers FC Politehnica Iași (2010) managers FC Petrolul Ploiești managers ACS Viitorul Târgu Jiu managers FC U Craiova 1948 managers FC Botoșani managers Moldovan Super Liga managers Romanian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Moldova Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova