Dorin Goga

Dorin Goga
Personal information
Full name Dorin Ioan Goga
Date of birth (1984-07-02) 2 July 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth Zalău, Romania
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Sănătatea Cluj
Number 21
Youth career
–2003 Universitatea Cluj
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2008 Universitatea Cluj 120 (33)
2008–2012 Politehnica Timișoara 92 (29)
2012 Rapid București 14 (2)
2013 Hapoel Ramat Gan 12 (1)
2013–2014 Dinamo Tbilisi 27 (9)
2014 Harbin Yiteng 0 (0)
2014–2015 ASA Târgu Mureș 26 (3)
2015–2016 Poli Timișoara 23 (7)
2016–2020 Universitatea Cluj 108 (74)
2021– Sănătatea Cluj 50 (12)
International career‡
2012 Romania 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:02, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 December 2013

Dorin Ioan Goga (born 2 July 1984) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga III side Sănătatea Cluj. In his career, Goga also played for teams such as Universitatea Cluj, Politehnica Timișoara or Dinamo Tbilisi, among others.

Club career

Universitatea Cluj

Goga began his career at Universitatea Cluj, where he mainly played as winger at first. He was promoted to first team in the summer of 2003 when the club was playing in the Liga II. He scored a goal helping them achieve promotion to the Liga I, after several years of absence. While playing in the second league he had not received much attention, however, after several great games in a horrendous first half of the season for Universitatea, clubs like Politehnica Timișoara came forward and offered €1 million and 12 players in exchange for the forward's services. The offer was rejected, and Goga remained at the club until the end of the 2007–08 Liga I season. After that, he moved to Politehnica.

Politehnica Timișoara

On 2008, Goga signed with Politehnica Timișoara. He was their goalscorer in the Europa League, scoring two goals against Ajax and Dinamo Zagreb. On 22 September he scored one goal in a 3–1 victory in the Romanian Cup against Juventus București. After a disastrous start of the season, scoring only one goal in thirteen rounds, he scored the winning goal in the 69th minute in 2–1 victory against FC Vaslui.[1] On 26 February 2011, Goga scored the equalizer against Gaz Metan Mediaş in a 3–1 win.[2] It was his third goal in Liga 1 this season. Dorin scored a fantastic goal in a 4–0 demolition of Universitatea Craiova. He scored again against Victoria Brăneşti and it seems that Dušan Uhrin Jr. reinvent himself again.[3]

On 1 July 2012, Dorin Goga signed with Rapid București. He was released in December when the club was entered under administration and the new president decided to part company with the players with big contracts.

Goga's first experience abroad came in Israel, where he signed a contract for five months with Hapoel Ramat Gan.[4] On 29 July 2013, Goga signed a two-year contract with Georgian side Dinamo Tbilisi.[5]

Goga transferred to Chinese Super League side Harbin Yiteng on 24 June 2014.[6] However, he had his contract terminated by mutual consent on 14 July 2014, as his family didn't support him playing in China.[7]

International career

Goga made his international debut for Romania on 27 January 2012 in a friendly match against Turkmenistan, which Romania won 4–0.

Honours

Club

Universitatea Cluj

FC Politehnica Timișoara

Hapoel Ramat Gan

Dinamo Tbilisi

References

  1. ^ "Poli - Vaslui 2–1". Politehnica Timişoara. 6 November 2010.
  2. ^ "Poli - Gaz Metan 3–1". Politehnica Timişoara. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
  3. ^ "The Poet is Back". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
  4. ^ "Dorin Goga și-a găsit echipă și pleacă din Liga 1!". ProSport. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  5. ^ "Dinamo Tbilisi signs Dorin Goga". geofootball.com. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  6. ^ "哈尔滨毅腾签约罗马尼亚前锋". Sina Sports. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  7. ^ "囧！毅腾新签外援半月后解约 家人不愿意来华陪他". Sina Sports. 14 July 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.