Basarab Panduru

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Personal information
Basarab Panduru
Full name	Basarab Nică Panduru
Date of birth	July 11, 1970 (age 36)
Place of birth	Mârzăneşti, Romania
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	N/A
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987-1991 1991-1995 1995 1996 1996-1998 1998 1999 1999-2000	FCM Reşiţa Steaua Bucharest SL Benfica Neuchatel Xamax SL Benfica FC Porto Internacional Porto Alegre SC Salgueiros	? (?) 131 (34) 15 (3) 7 (0) 34 (4) 6 (0) ? (?) 7 (1)
National team²
1992-1996	Romania	22 (1)
Teams managed
2002-2004 2005 2005 2006	FCU Politehnica Timişoara Oţelul Galaţi FC Vaslui FC Farul Constanţa
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of N/A. ² National team caps and goals correct as of N/A. * Appearances (Goals)

Basarab Panduru, (born July 11, 1970 in Mârzăneşti, Teleorman), is a former Romanian football player and current coach of FC Farul Constanţa.

[edit] Career as Player

Panduru started his professional career with FCM Reşiţa where he played between 1987 and 1991, before being signed by Steaua Bucharest 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 lost that game after a federal decision.

As soon as he joined Steaua 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 Neuchatel 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 and left Portugal for Brazil, thus becoming the first ever, and, so far, the only Romanian footballer to play in Brazil, choosing to play for Internacional Porto Alegre.

In 1999 he returned to Portugal and signed for SC Salgueiros, the third team of Porto but after only half-a-season decided to retire and become coach.

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

[edit] 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, 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, but left the team to sign with FC Vaslui in the summer of 2005, from where he was sacked after only few games. He is the current coach of FC Farul Constanţa.

Preceded by Ion Marin	FC Farul Constanţa Coach 2006-present	Succeeded by in charge

	Romania squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Prunea \| 2 Petrescu \| 3 Prodan \| 4 Belodedici \| 5 Lupescu \| 6 Popescu \| 7 Munteanu \| 8 Chiriţă \| 9 Răducioiu \| 10 Hagi \| 11 Dumitrescu \| 12 Stelea \| 13 Selymes \| 14 Mihali \| 15 Panduru \| 16 Vlădoiu \| 17 Moldovan \| 18 Gâlcă \| 19 Papură \| 20 Stîngă \| 21 Ivan \| 22 Preda \| Coach: Iordănescu