Ionuț Costinel Mazilu (born 9 February 1982) is a Romanian former professional

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who played as a

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, currently he is the assistant coach of the Romania national under-17 team.

Career

Club

Mazilu started his career at Sportul Studențesc in 1999. In the 2005–06 season, he was the leading goalscorer in the Romanian

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 ...

scoring 22 goals. The following season, he was taken to

FC Rapid București Fotbal Club Rapid 1923, commonly known as Rapid București () or simply as Rapid, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in Bucharest, that competes in the Liga I. It was founded in 1923 by employees of the Grivi� ...

, where he played for two years playing 34 games and scoring 18 goals. On 12 January 2008, Mazilu was transferred to the Ukrainian club

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for a fee of €4 million, the highest fee received by a Romanian football club at that time. He failed to make an immediate impact. During his first year he only played eight games with a single goal scored. In 2009, he was loaned to

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after his transfer to

CFR Cluj Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ) or simply CFR, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I. Founded as ''Kolozsvári Vasut ...

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Career statistics

International

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

Honours

Sportul Studențesc *

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: 2000–01, 2003–04 Rapid București *

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: 2006–07 *

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 ...

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Individual

top scorer: 2005–06 (22 goals)

References

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* * * * * 1982 births Living people Romanian men's footballers Romania men's youth international footballers Romania men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Liga I players Liga II players FC Sportul Studențesc București players FC Rapid București players Ukrainian Premier League players FC Dnipro players FC Arsenal Kyiv players Romanian expatriate men's footballers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Romanian football managers FC Sportul Studențesc București managers Footballers from Bucharest 21st-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-footy-forward-1980s-stub