Cosmin Bărcăuan (born 5 August 1978) is a

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n former

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player and current

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Club career

Bărcăuan was born on 5 August 1978, starting to play junior level football at local club, Bihor. He started his senior career in 1994 at Bihor in

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, spending several seasons at the club, including in

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, having a short interruption in 1998 when he went at first league side, Gloria Bistrița but did not play there. In 1999 he went at

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where he made his

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debut in a 2–1 home win over his former club, Gloria Bistrița. He was used by coach

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all the minutes in the

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, as "U" Craiova lost 2–0 in front of

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. In 2002 when Craiova owner Gheorghe Nețoiu left the team to go at Dinamo, he took players Bărcăuan,

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and

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with him. In his first season with ''The Red Dogs'', he scored a personal record of 12 goals, also winning the

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, coach

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using him all the minutes in the 1–0 win over Național București from the

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. In the following season, Andone started using him as a defender even do until then he played as a striker. In this new position he was used by Andone in 28 league matches and still managed to score five goals, including one in a 2–1 victory in a

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with Steaua București as the team won the title. In the same season, Bărcăuan helped the club win another

, playing all the minutes in a 2–0 over Oțelul Galați from the

, also helping the team eliminate Liepājas Metalurgs and

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in the

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, scoring once against the first. He eventually was transferred by Shakhtar Donetsk who paid one million$ to Dinamo, being teammate with fellow Romanians

, Daniel Florea,

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and

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and coached by

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. He made his Vyshcha Liha on 15 July 2004 in a

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which was won 2–0 with

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, scoring his first goal in the competition on 29 October in a 2–1 away victory against

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. That would be his only goal scored in the 19 league appearances he made, as the team won the title. Also in the same season he played five games in the 2004–05 Champions League group stage, including a 2–0 victory with

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. He played only two games in the first half of the following season as Shakhtar won another title. In 2005 he was loaned at Krylya Sovetov where he was teammate with compatriot Florin Șoavă but made only two

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appearances, the first one taking place on 10 September when coach Gadzhi Gadzhiyev used him the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 home loss in front of

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. In 2006 he was loaned back to Dinamo București for half of year. His next loan spell was at

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side

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, for the 2006–07 season, making his debut in the competition on 19 August 2006 as coach

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used him all the minutes in a 0–0 with

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. After one season in which he played regularly at PAOK, he remained in the league, signing with

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where on his debut which took place under coach

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on 2 September 2007 he scored one goal in the 3–2 victory against

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. OFI relegated in his second season spent at the club, afterwards he played three games in the

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, then left the club in order to return in Romania at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț. He made his last appearance in the Romanian first league on 12 March 2010 in Ceahlăul's 4–2 home loss in front of

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, having a total of 168 matches with 33 goals scored in the competition.

International career

Bărcăuan made eight appearances and scored two goals for

, making his debut on 15 November 2000 when he was sent on the field by coach

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in order to replace

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in the 52nd minute of a friendly in which he scored the decisive goal of a 2–1 victory against

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. He scored his second goal for the national team in a friendly which ended with a 3–2 away victory against

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. Bărcăuan's last four games for

were at the 2006 World Cup qualifiers.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bărcăuan goal''.

Managerial career

Bărcăuan started his coaching career in 2010, shortly after he ended his playing one in the Greek fourth league at Astera Sílata. Afterwards he worked at Digenis Lakkoma with whom he managed two promotions from the fifth league to the fourth and from the fourth to the third. In 2016, he worked with juniors at the Olympiacos Academy, then in 2018 he coached for a short while at

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in the Romanian third league, returning in 2020 to coach the youth of Olympiacos Academy for two more years.

Honours

Player

Bihor Oradea *

: 1997–98 Universitatea Craiova *

runner-up: 1999–00 Dinamo București *

: 2003–04 *

: 2002–03, 2003–04 Shakhtar Donetsk *

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: 2004–05, 2005–06

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barcauan, Cosmin 1978 births Living people Footballers from Oradea Romanian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Romania men's international footballers FC Bihor Oradea (1958) players ACF Gloria Bistrița players FC Dinamo București players FC U Craiova 1948 players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players PAOK FC players OFI Crete F.C. players CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț players Liga I players Liga II players Liga III players Ukrainian Premier League players Russian Premier League players Super League Greece players Romanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Romanian football managers Expatriate football managers in Greece