Daniel Pancu
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Daniel Gabriel Pancu | ||
Date of birth | 17 August 1977 | ||
Place of birth | Iași, Romania | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | |||
Team information | |||
Current team | Romania U21 (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
1986–1994 | Politehnica Iași | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1994–1996 | Politehnica Iași | 55 | (4) |
1997–1999 | Rapid București | 77 | (23) |
1999–2000 | Cesena | 36 | (3) |
2000–2002 | Rapid București | 45 | (28) |
2002–2006 | Beşiktaş | 80 | (16) |
2006 | → Rapid București (loan) | 13 | (2) |
2006–2007 | Bursaspor | 32 | (3) |
2008 | Rapid București | 8 | (2) |
2008–2009 | Terek Grozny | 33 | (10) |
2010 | CSKA Sofia | 7 | (2) |
2010 | Vaslui | 5 | (0) |
2011–2015 | Rapid București | 96 | (21) |
2015–2016 | Voluntari | 24 | (5) |
2017–2018 | Rapid București | 23 | (18) |
Total | 534 | (137) | |
International career | |||
1994 | Romania U-16 | 4 | (0) |
1995 | Romania U-18 | 2 | (0) |
1996–1997 | Romania U-21 | 8 | (2) |
2001–2005 | Romania | 27 | (9) |
Managerial career | |||
2017 | Voluntari (assistant) | ||
2018–2020 | Rapid București | ||
2020–2021 | Politehnica Iași | ||
2022–2023 | Romania U20 | ||
2023– | Romania U21 | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Daniel Gabriel Pancu (Romanian pronunciation: [daniˈel gabriˈel– ˈpaŋku]; born 17 August 1977) is a Romanian football coach and a former player who played mainly as an attacking midfielder or a forward. He is the manager of the Romania national under-21 team.
Club career
[edit]Pancu began his playing career at FC Politehnica Iași. He made his debut in the Romanian First Division in 1995. In the winter of 1996 he was transferred to Rapid București for the sum of US$200,000. This was, at that time, the highest fee ever paid for a Iași player. After two and a half seasons, he moved to A.C. Cesena, in the Italian Serie B, for US$1,200,000. After a year, Cesena was relegated from the Serie B and Pancu returned to Rapid for US$800,000, where he stayed for two seasons. During this tenure he gained the nickname "the Giulești Ronaldo".
In 2002, he was bought by Beşiktaş, at the request of the manager who discovered him, Mircea Lucescu, for a fee of US$2,250,000.[1] It was at Beşiktaş that Lucescu turned Pancu from striker into central midfielder with impressive results. In the winter of 2005/2006, he returned to Rapid on loan with the possibility of becoming a permanent transfer in the summer. He was then bought by Bursaspor, but returned to Rapid again in the spring of 2008, scoring on his first appearance. In July 2008 he moved to FC Terek Grozny and left the club on 30 November 2009.[2]
On 11 December 2009, it was announced in the Bulgarian media that CSKA Sofia had an interest in signing the midfielder. On 12 January 2010, CSKA signed Pancu on a one-a-half-year deal.[3] Pancu made his official debut for CSKA Sofia in the 3–2 win against Lokomotiv Plovdiv in Sofia, again scoring on his debut.
After a short spell in Bulgaria at CSKA Sofia, Pancu returned to Romanian football later in 2010 to play for FC Vaslui, but had a difficult time breaking into the first eleven with strong competition from Wesley and Mike Temwanjera. During the summer transfer window of 2011 he re-signed yet again for Rapid București.
Curiosity
[edit]On the 28th gameweek of the 2004/05 Süper Lig season, during a derby match against Fenerbahçe, with the score at 2–3, Pancu replaced Óscar Córdoba, after the goalkeeper received a red card and Beşiktaş had already used all their substitutes. After conceding a penalty, Pancu kept Fenerbahçe at bay until Koray scored the fourth goal for Beşiktaş in the fifth minute of added time. Beşiktaş thus sealed a sensational away win over their rivals at Kadiköy Stadium. Pancu was given the nickname "Kadıköy Panteri" (the panther of Kadıköy) and dressed in a regular goalkeeper's jersey with the number "1" the following season.[4][5][6] He later stated that he felt uncomfortable being labelled as a goalkeeper, as his native playing position was a forward.[7]
Managerial career
[edit]On 2 October 2018, Daniel Pancu was appointed as Rapid’s new manager. He obtained the promotion from Liga 3 to Liga 2 after losing only 1 game. In 2020, he was named President of Rapid București.[8]
International career
[edit]He gained his first cap for the Romania national team in 1995, and captained his country on several occasions. He played a total of 27 games and scored 9 goals.
International stats
[edit]Romania national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2001 | 3 | 0 |
2002 | 6 | 2 |
2003 | 9 | 2 |
2004 | 5 | 4 |
2005 | 4 | 1 |
Total | 27 | 9 |
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]Player
[edit]Rapid București
Beşiktaş
Coach
[edit]Rapid București
References
[edit]- ^ "DANIEL GABRIEL PANCU". TFF. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
- ^ ""Терек" расстался с шестью легионерами". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
- ^ "Панку официално е играч на ЦСКА" (in Bulgarian). topsport.bg. 12 January 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ ""Kadıköy Panteri" UEFA'da". Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ "ÖZEL | 'Kadıköy Panteri' Pancu: Gerçek bir kaleci gibi kurtarışlar yapmıştım | Goal.com Türkçe". Goal (in Turkish). 3 December 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ Er, İsmail (26 July 2005). "Pancu 1 numara". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ ""Kadıköy panteri" Pancu'nun, 10 dakika rahatsızlığı!". NTV Spor (in Turkish). Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ Constanttin Schumacher a fost inlocuit de Daniel Pancu. fcrapid.ro (in Romanian)
External links
[edit]- Daniel Pancu at Soccerway
- Daniel Pancu at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Romanian men's footballers
- Romanian expatriate men's footballers
- Romania men's international footballers
- FC Politehnica Iași (1945) players
- FC Rapid București players
- AC Cesena players
- Beşiktaş J.K. footballers
- Bursaspor footballers
- FC Akhmat Grozny players
- PFC CSKA Sofia players
- CS Sporting Vaslui players
- FC Voluntari players
- Liga I players
- Serie B players
- Süper Lig players
- Russian Premier League players
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
- Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria
- Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
- Men's association football midfielders
- Men's association football forwards
- Romanian football managers
- FC Rapid București managers
- FC Politehnica Iași (2010) managers
- FC Rapid București presidents
- Footballers from Iași