Basarab Panduru

Basarab Panduru

Personal information
Full name	Basarab Nică Panduru
Date of birth	11 July 1970 (1970-07-11) (age 41)
Place of birth	Mârzăneşti, Romania
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Offensive midfielder
Youth career
	Rulmentul Alexandria
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1987–1991	FCM Reşiţa	62	(16)
1991–1995	Steaua Bucureşti	131	(34)
1995–1998	Benfica	49	(7)
1996	→ Neuchâtel Xamax (loan)	7	(0)
1998–2000	Porto	6	(0)
1999–2000	→ Salgueiros (loan)	7	(1)
2001–2002	Porto B	0	(0)
National team
1992–1996	Romania	22	(1)
Teams managed
2002	Politehnica Timişoara
2003–2004	Politehnica Timişoara
2005	FC Vaslui
2006–2007	Farul Constanţa
2007	Progresul Bucureşti
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Basarab Nică Panduru, (born 11 July 1970 in Mârzăneşti, Teleorman) is a Romanian former football player and coach, and former managerial director of Steaua Bucureşti.

Career as Player

Panduru started his professional career with FCM Reşiţa where he played between 1987 and 1991, before being signed by Steaua Bucureşti at the beginning of 1991. Panduru's first game with Steaua was in the Romanian Cup, when the Steaua's officials did not take into consideration that just prior leaving FCM Reşiţa, Panduru was set to miss the next game due to yellow cards, therefore Steaua Bucureşti lost that game after a federal decision.

As soon as he joined Steaua Bucureşti he became an important part of the team. In 1995 however he left Romania to play for SL Benfica. The life in the capital of Portugal wasn't that easy, and he was loaned to Neuchâtel Xamax for half a season, before re-joining SL Benfica at the start of the 1996-97 season.

In 1998 he was bought by SL Benfica's main rivals from FC Porto but failed to make an impact. During the summer of 1999, Panduru was close to sign a contract with Brazilian club Internacional Porto Alegre however, the transfer did not materialize.^[1][2] Then Panduru signed for SC Salgueiros on loan from Porto, his third team in Portugal but after only half-a-season and long-term injuries Panduru decided to retire and become coach.^[3]

During his career Panduru won 22 caps for Romania, scoring one goal.

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	22 September 1993	Stadionul Ghencea, Bucharest, Romania	Israel	1–0	1–0	Friendly

Career as Coach

Panduru's first coaching agreement was the one with FCU Politehnica Timişoara, signed in 2002. At Timişoara he met his former teammate from Steaua Bucureşti, Anton Doboş, now the team's co-owner. The couple worked well together for a while, but in 2004 Panduru basically sacked himself when he made a bad remark, by saying: "The defenders are not footballers, they are only the ones who help the footballers". What Panduru did not take into consideration was the fact that Anton Doboş, his boss, played as a defender.

He signed a new contract, this time with Oţelul Galaţi for the second half of the 2004-05 season without a league game, he left the team to sign with FC Vaslui in the summer of 2005, from where he was sacked after only few games. He was then the coach of FC Farul Constanţa before being sacked by the team owner after poor results.

At the end of October 2007 he signed on to manage second league team FC Progresul Bucureşti.

Career as Director of Football

In September 2009, Panduru was announced the new Director of Football of Steaua Bucureşti, but at 14 May 2010, he resigned from this position, after a mutual agreement with club's owner George Becali.

Honours

Club

Steaua Bucureşti

• Romanian League: 1992-93, 1993–94, 1994–95
• Romanian Cup: 1991-92
• Romanian Super Cup: 1993-94, 1994–95

Benfica

• Portuguese Cup: 1995-96

Porto

• Portuguese Liga: 1998-99
• Portuguese Super Cup: 1998-99

References

1. ^ "Panduru incerto no FC Porto" (in Portuguese). Record. http://www.record.xl.pt/Futebol/Nacional/1a_liga/Porto/interior.aspx?content_id=7552. Retrieved 1999-07-08. 
2. ^ «O Jogo newspaper», "Panduru continua em Portugal à espera de ver resolvido o seu caso. Apesar de ter sido dado como certo no Internacional de Porto Alegre, a transferência para o Brasil não se concretizou" (in Portuguese). Agosto 1999.
3. ^ "Panduru (Nica Basarab Panduru)" (in Portuguese). Fora de Jogo. http://www.foradejogo.net/player.php?player=197007110001. Retrieved 2009-10-07. 

Romanian football portal

Preceded by Ion Marin

FC Farul Constanţa Coach 2006-2007

Succeeded by Cristian Gache

Persondata
Name	Panduru, Basarab
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	11 July 1970
Place of birth	Mârzăneşti, Romania
Date of death
Place of death