Who Are Ya? (Serie A III)
Try and work out which player these 10 facts are describing.
This player has at some point in his career plied his trade in Italy’s top-flight.
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The Facts
1. At time of writing (July 2022), this player is 43 years old.
2. He has played for 13 clubs across 6 divisions and 5 countries.
3. His career spanned from 1996 to 2016, culminating in a return to his home country to play for Târgu Mureș.
4. In Serie A, he played for 6 different clubs.
5. His career stats totalled 528 club appearances and 203 goals.
6. Of those appearances, 328 were made for clubs in Italy, and 131 goals were scored for these clubs.
7. For his national side, he scored 35 in 77 appearances, which helped them to the Euro 2000 quarter-finals and the Euro 2008 tournament, before being banned from the national side for drinking and then for comparing his national side manager to Mr Bean on Facebook.
8. Since retiring from playing in 2016, he has taken several managerial positions in Romania and the UAE.
9. In 2004, this player was banned from football for 7 months for testing positive for cocaine.
10. This player features in the video below for ‘PSV-Fiorentina 2008’.
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