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Romania National Football Team
Head coach: Victor Piturca
Captain: Cristian Chivu
Top scorer: Gheorghe Hagi
FIFA ranking: 12
The Romanian national football team is the national football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation.
Romania is one of only four national teams (with Brazil, France, and Belgium) to participate in the first three World Cups. However, they then qualified only once between the 1950 and 1986 editions. Romania then had a solid run through the 1990s, advancing to the second round or better in three consecutive World Cups. The period was highlighted by the 1994 World Cup where Romania, led by Gheorghe Hagi, reached the quarterfinals and defeated Argentina 3-2 before losing to Sweden on penalty kicks. In Euro 2000 they drew 1-1 with Germany and defeated England 3-2 to advance to the quarterfinals before falling to eventual runners-up Italy.
The team has had less success since 2001, narrowly missing qualification for the 2002 and 2006 World Cups and also missing out on Euro 2004. Romania are drawn with the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Belarus, Luxembourg and Albania in Group G of Euro 2008 qualification.
| Romania Team | |||||||||||||||||
| No. | NAME | POS | Height | Weight | Age | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bogdan Lobont | G | 6-0 | 165 | 29 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Mircea Bornescu | G | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Cosmin Contra | D | 5-11 | 163 | 31 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Razvan Rat | D | 5-10 | 159 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Gabriel Sebastian Tamas | D | 6-2 | 174 | 23 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Cristian Chivu | D | 6-0 | 172 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Dorel Stoica | D | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Gabriel Muresan | D | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 19 | Dorin Goian | D | - | - | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 22 | Stefan Radu | D | - | - | 20 | ||||||||||||
| - | Adrian Cristea | M | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| - | Razvan Cocis | M | - | - | 24 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Paul Codrea | M | 5-9 | 152 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Florentin Petre | M | 5-5 | 135 | 31 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Valentin Badoi | M | - | - | 31 | ||||||||||||
| 17 | Mihaita Plesan | M | - | - | 24 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Ianis Zicu | S | 5-10 | 150 | 23 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Ciprian Marica | S | 5-11 | 159 | 21 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Adrian Mutu | S | 5-11 | 163 | 28 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Laurentiu Rosu | S | 5-9 | 157 | 31 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Claudiu Niculescu | S | - | - | 30 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Banel Nicolita | S | - | - | 22 | ||||||||||||
| 21 | Daniel Niculae | S | 6-1 | 168 | 24 | ||||||||||||
| Group G | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD | P | |
| Romania | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 17 |
| Bulgaria | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| Albania | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| Belarus | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 15 | -5 | 7 |
| Slovenia | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -7 | 4 |
| Luxembourg | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 14 | -13 | 0 |
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