Cosmin Vâtcă

Cosmin Vâtcă
Personal information
Full name Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă
Date of birth (1982-05-12) 12 May 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Turda, Romania
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
CSȘ Turda
Școala de Fotbal Ștefan Kovács
Viitorul Oradea
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2005 Bihor Oradea 45 (0)
2006–2007 Oțelul Galați 48 (0)
2007–2010 Steaua București 0 (0)
2009–2010 → Gaz Metan Mediaș (loan) 25 (0)
2010–2011 Gaz Metan Mediaș 7 (0)
2012 Rapid București 3 (0)
2012–2014 Viitorul Constanța 21 (0)
2014 Gaz Metan Mediaș 0 (0)
2014–2018 CFR Cluj 21 (0)
2018–2019 Voluntari 28 (0)
2019–2020 CFR Cluj 4 (0)
2020 Universitatea Cluj 3 (0)
2021–2022 1599 Șelimbăr 7 (0)
Total 212 (0)
Managerial career
2023–2024 Voința Sibiu
2024 Mediaș
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 08:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 April 2009

Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă (born 12 May 1982), is a Romanian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.[1]

Club career

Vâtcă began his career in his home town of Turda at CSS Turda. The first important club for which he played was FC Bihor. He made his debut in Liga I (then Divizia A), on 2 May 2004, in a match against Steaua București. He signed for €12,000 with Oțelul Galați in January 2006. The first match he played for Oțelul Galați was the shocking 3–0 away win against Dinamo București.

He has the reputation of a good goalkeeper, with very good reflexes who sometimes makes mistakes. In the 2006–2007 season, he made 33 appearances in Liga I for Oțelul Galați, having conceded 54 goals. He joined Steaua București in the summer of 2007 for €550,000, but he did not play in any matches during the 2007/2008 season of Liga I. He played in two Romanian Cup matches, against FCM Bacău (4-0) and Unirea Urziceni (0-2).

Oțelul Galați wanted to sign him back after the competitional break started. Oțelul Galați's goalkeepers, Ismail Kouha, Paulius Grybauskas and Valentin Borș have had some bad evolutions, which made the team's board to turn their attention to Vâtcă. But, the team's president, Marius Stan, dismissed all speculation and said that Oţelul would not buy back Vâtcă. After his contract with Steaua ended, he signed with Gaz Metan Mediaș as a free agent.[2]

In January 2012, he signed a contract for three years with Rapid București.[3]

Honours

Club

CFR Cluj

Viitorul Șelimbăr

References

  1. ^ 5 TRANSFERURI LA REUNIRE!. cfr1907.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ "Vâtcă is a free agent!" (in Romanian). ProSport. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  3. ^ "Inca o achizitie: Vatca" (in Romanian). fcrapid.ro. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.