Florin Cernat
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Florin Lucian Cernat | ||
Date of birth | 10 March 1980 | ||
Place of birth | Galați, Romania | ||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder, Playmaker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Voluntari (sporting director) | ||
Youth career | |||
1986–1998 | Oțelul Galați | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–1999 | Oțelul Galați | 36 | (5) |
2000 | Dinamo București | 25 | (2) |
2001–2009 | Dynamo Kyiv | 138 | (31) |
2007–2008 | → Hajduk Split (loan) | 28 | (8) |
2009–2010 | Hajduk Split | 25 | (2) |
2010–2013 | Kardemir Karabükspor | 68 | (19) |
2013–2014 | Çaykur Rizespor | 34 | (11) |
2014–2015 | Oțelul Galați | 26 | (6) |
2015–2016 | Viitorul Constanța | 17 | (8) |
2016–2018 | Voluntari | 59 | (11) |
Total | 456 | (103) | |
National team | |||
1998 | Romania U-18 | 2 | (0) |
2000–2002 | Romania U-21 | 12 | (4) |
2002–2004 | Romania | 14 | (2) |
Teams managed | |||
2018– | Voluntari (sporting director) | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Florin Lucian Cernat (born 10 March 1980) is a Romanian international former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and playmaker. He was known for his excellent passing play, great vision on field, and highly precise free-kicks and exceptional dribbling ability.
Club career[]
Oțelul Galați & Dinamo București[]
Florin Cernat started his professional career at Oțelul Galați. In 2000, he was noticed by Dinamo Bucharest.
Dinamo ended up buying him. The rising star was played most of the entire 2000–01 season, appearing for 25 out of 30 league matches. He helped the team finish second in the league and qualify for the UEFA Cup. Cernat also participated in the team's UEFA Champions League 2000-01 campaign, which ended prematurely in the second round.
Dynamo Kyiv[]
During that period, Dynamo Kyiv's coach, Valeriy Lobanovskiy was looking for players to replace the stars that he had recently sold. This included Andriy Shevchenko and Kakha Kaladze to AC Milan, Serhiy Rebrov to Tottenham Hotspur, and Oleh Luzhnyi to Arsenal. In July 2001 Cernat transferred to Dynamo Kyiv, where he contributed to the team and won many titles.
Returning from loan to Dynamo, Cernat was rarely able to prove himself under new coach Yuri Semin. On 24 December 2008, Cernat announced that he would leave Kyiv in the summer after 8 years.[1]
One of his most notable games for Dynamo occurred in the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, Group Stage game 2 (28 September 2004) against Bayer Leverkusen. Cernat came off as a substitute and scored the third and fourth goal for Dynamo in a 4–2 victory at Olympiskiy stadium.
Hajduk Split[]
With new coach Anatoliy Demyanenko in 2005, Florin Cernat came out of favour with the coach and rarely saw the field. For the 2007–08 season, Demyanenko loaned him off to the Croatian Premier League club Hajduk Split for a transfer fee of 312,000 £. There, his team earned second place in the Croatian Cup, losing in the final to Dinamo Zagreb.
After the completion of the Ukrainian Premier League 2008-09 season Cernat signed new deal with his former club Hajduk Split.[2]
Kardemir Karabükspor[]
In August 2010 he signed a five-year deal with Turkish Süper Lig club Kardemir Karabükspor.
Çaykur Rizespor[]
In March 2013, he signed for newcomers Çaykur Rizespor. He immediately was given the number 10 and was awarded the captainship. Cernat helped his side to get promoted to the Süper Lig.
Return to Oțelul[]
In September 2014, Cernat accepted the offer to return to Oțelul Galați, the first club of his career. He signed a contract for a season, with an option to extend the deal for an extra season.[3]
Career statistics[]
International[]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Romania | 2002 | 6 | 0 |
2003 | 1 | 0 | |
2004 | 7 | 2 | |
Total | 14 | 2 |
- Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Cernat goal.[4]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
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1 | 18 February 2004 | GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus | Georgia | 3–0 | 3–0 | Cyprus International Tournament | |
2 | 8 September 2004 | Estadi Comunal d'Aixovall, Andorra la Vella, Andorra | Andorra | 1–0 | 5–1 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification | [5] |
Honours[]
Club[]
Dinamo București
- Diivizia A: 1999–2000
- Romanian Cup: 1999–2000, 2000–01
Dynamo Kyiv
- Ukrainian League: 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2008–09
- Ukrainian Cup: 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07
- Ukrainian Super Cup: 2004, 2006, 2007
- Independent States Cup: 2002
Hajduk Split
Çaykur Rizespor
FC Voluntari
References[]
- ^ Florin Cernat: Teams from Turkey, Russia and Emirates are interested in me - UkrainianSoccer.net, Accessed 26 December 2008
- ^ (in Russian) Чернат возвращается в "Хайдук" (Cernat returns to "Hajduk") - 26 June 2009
- ^ Marian Căpăţînă (2014). "Florin Cernat a semnat cu Oţelul Galaţi" (in Romanian). ProSport.
- ^ a b "Florin Cernat". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ eu-football.info
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Florin Cernat. |
- Florin Cernat – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Florin Cernat at National-Football-Teams.com
- Florin Cernat at Soccerway
- Florin Cernat at (in Croatian)
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Galați
- Romanian footballers
- Association football midfielders
- ASC Oțelul Galați players
- FC Dinamo București players
- FC Dynamo Kyiv players
- HNK Hajduk Split players
- Kardemir Karabükspor footballers
- FC Viitorul Constanța players
- FC Voluntari players
- Liga I players
- Ukrainian Premier League players
- Croatian First Football League players
- Süper Lig players
- Romanian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
- Expatriate footballers in Croatia
- Expatriate footballers in Turkey
- Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
- Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
- Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- Romania international footballers