Alexandru Victorio Pițurcă (born 28 October 1983) is a retired

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Career

Alexandru Pițurcă started his career under the guidance of his father,

Victor Pițurcă Victor Pițurcă (; born 8 May 1956) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player. Club career Victor Pițurcă was born on 8 May 1956 in Orodel, Dolj County, Romania, starting to play football in 1964 at the youth center of U ...

at Steaua București, making his

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

debut on 13 June 2001 in a 3–3 in which he scored a goal against

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. He was loaned in 2003 at 2. Bundesliga team

Jahn Regensburg Sport- und Schwimmverein Jahn Regensburg e. V., commonly known as SSV Jahn Regensburg, Jahn Regensburg, SSV Jahn or simply Jahn, is a German football club based in Regensburg, Bavaria. The club plays their home games at Jahnstadion Regen ...

, but did not play there. From 2004 until 2006 he spent two seasons in

Divizia B The Liga 2, most commonly spelled as Liga II, is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name from Divizia B just before the start of the 2006–07 football season. It is currently sponsored by Casa Pariu ...

at FC Caracal and Universitatea Craiova, helping the latter win promotion to

. In 2006 Pițurcă signed with

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sports Club of the Army'' ...

, where he played alongside fellow Romanians

Florentin Petre Florentin Petre (born 15 January 1976) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, currently assistant coach at Liga I club Dinamo București. Club career Florentin Petre was born on 15 January 1976 in Bucharest, Romania, gr ...

and

Eugen Trică Eugen Trică (born 5 August 1976) is a Romanian football manager and former footballer. He played as a midfielder. Club career Eugen Trică was born on 5 August 1976 in the village of Teslui from Romania where he spent the first years of his l ...

. In the following years he went to play for

Pandurii Târgu Jiu The uprising of 1821 was a social and political rebellion in Wallachia, which was at the time a tributary state of the Ottoman Empire. It originated as a movement against the Phanariote administration, with backing from the more conservative b ...

, FC Brașov and Universitatea Craiova, having a total of 100

appearances in which he scored 15 goals, he also has two games played in the 2001–02 Champions League. Pițurcă retired in 2011 at age 27, after playing in Azerbaijan at

Khazar Lankaran Khazar Lankaran FK () was an Azerbaijani football club based in Lankaran that last played in the Azerbaijan Premier League during the 2015–16 season. Since the summer of 2016 the club has concentrated on youth football. It played in the Aze ...

under coach

Mircea Rednic Mircea Rednic (born 9 April 1962) is a Romanian professional football coach and former player who played as a defender, who is currently the head coach of Belgian Pro League club Standard Liège. Playing career Corvinul Hunedoara Rednic, ni ...

Personal life

His father,

was a footballer and a coach.

Honours

Steaua București *

: 2000–01 *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României () is a Romanian football (soccer), football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994 Supe ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

Universitatea Craiova *

: 2005–06 Khazar Lankaran *

Azerbaijan Cup The Azerbaijan Cup () is a major association football competition in Azerbaijan. In its original form, it started in 1936, when Azerbaijan was a republic of the Soviet Union and it was not disputed by Azerbaijani teams in the Soviet league pyramid ...

2010–11 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Piturca, Alexandru 1983 births Living people Romanian men's footballers Men's association football forwards FCSB players FC U Craiova 1948 players CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu players FC Brașov (1936) players SSV Jahn Regensburg players PFC CSKA Sofia players Khazar Lankaran FK players Romanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan Liga I players Liga II players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Footballers from Bucharest 21st-century Romanian sportsmen