Mihai Neşu

Football player infobox
playername = Mihai Neşu


fullname = Mihai Mircea Neşu
height = height|m=1.76
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1983|02|19
cityofbirth = Oradea
countryofbirth = Romania
currentclub = FC Utrecht
clubnumber = 3
position = Left Back
youthyears =
youthclubs = Steaua Bucureşti
years = 2001–2008
2008–
clubs = Steaua Bucureşti
FC Utrecht
caps(goals) = 086 00(1)
003 00(0)
nationalyears = 2003–2005
2005–
nationalteam = Romania U21
Romania
nationalcaps(goals) = 012 00(0)
005 00(0)
pcupdate = 23 August, 2008
ntupdate = September 10, 2008

Mihai Mircea Neşu (nickname: „Bişonul”/„The Bichon”), (born February 19, 1983 in Oradea) is a Romanian football player, who played his entire career for Steaua Bucureşti.

Club career

teaua Bucureşti

*He signed his first professional contract in 2001 with Steaua Bucureşti and this team remained the only team for which he played in his entire career.

*He debuted on April 21, 2002 in a game against Petrolul Ploiesti which was ended 1-1.

*In the first two seasons he didn't play too much, only 13 games, and his best performance was the vice-champion title in 2002-2003.

*They succeeded the same performance in the next season when Nesu played more, 13 games.

*In the season 2004-2005 he won his first champion title with Steaua and he succeeded to score his first goal in Divizia A, although he played only 7 games.

*In the next year he played in 19 games and Steaua won for the second consecutive year the title of champion team.

*After Ogararu's transfer to Ajax Amsterdam, Mihai Nesu won a place in the first "eleven" and now is a basic player for the team.

*In the European Cups he played in 20 games but didn't score any game. He debuted in the season 2003-2004 in UEFA Cup when played 3 games.

*After only one European game in 2004-2005 he had in the next season very good results and Nesu played in all four games for the qualifiers in UEFA Champions League. After this he played in UEFA Cup and succeeded to defeat teams like Lens, Heerenveen, Betis Sevilla and Rapid Bucuresti, but they were eliminated in the semi-final by Middlesbrough.

*In the season 2006-2007 Steaua with Nesu as a titular player eliminated Standard Liege and succeeded after 10 years to qualify in UEFA Champions League groups in a group with Real Madrid, Olympique Lyonnais and Dynamo Kiev.

*As of August 23, 2008 Neşu played 86 games in Liga I of Romania, scoring once. All the games were played under Steaua's badge.

FC Utrecht

*Neşu completed a transfer deal with FC Utrecht which will see him move to the club on August 27, 2008. He will replace Erik Pieters who left for PSV in the summer. [http://www.fc-utrecht.nl/actueel/nieuws/1153]

International career

*He also won four caps for Romania, his first in 2005, against Ivory Coast.

Titles

Trivia

*Neşu is the son of a famous Romanian soccer referee.
*In 1999, aged 16, he was on a trial with the Dutch team PSV Eindhoven.
*He married Maria Laura Gherman in June 2006.

External links

* [http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/players/n/nesu.shtml Mihai Neşu's career @ Romaniansoccer.ro (English)]
* [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/Players/Player=61500/index.html Mihai Neşu's profile @ UEFA.com (English)]
* [http://www.fcutrecht.net Mihai Neşu's in Utrecht(Dutch)]