Marian Aliuță

Marian Aliuță
Personal information
Full name	Marian Aliuță
Date of birth	3 February 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1986–1995	Steaua București
Senior career*
Years	Team
1995–1997	Steaua București
1995–1996	→ Steaua II București
1996–1997	→ Chindia Târgovişte (loan)
1997	→ Gloria Bistriţa (loan)
1997–1998	Farul Constanţa
1998–2000	Sheriff Tiraspol
2000–2002	Shakhtar Donetsk
2000–2002	→ Shakhtar-2 Donetsk
2002–2004	Steaua București
2004–2005	Rapid București
2005	Jeonnam Dragons
2005–2006	Metalurh Donetsk
2006	Changchun Yatai
2006–2007	Iraklis Thessaloniki
2007–2008	Politehnica Timişoara
2008	FC Vaslui
2008–2010	Neftchi Baku
Total
International career‡
2001–2008	Romania
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 May 2010; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 September 2008

Marian Aliuță (born 3 February 1978) is a Romanian retired footballer who played as midfielder.

Career

Aliuță started to play football at Steaua București and as soon as he reached the age of 18 is loaned to Steaua Mizil and then to Chindia Târgovişte and Gloria Bistriţa. Released from him contract with Steaua București, Aliuță signed with FC Farul Constanţa in 1997 and then with Sheriff Tiraspol one year later.

Year 1999 finds him in Ukraine, playing for Shakhtar Donetsk from where he returned to Romania in 2002 to finally make his debut for Steaua București. At that time being, with US$135,000 the highest paid footballer from Divizia A. Despite being voted as The Best Player of Divizia A at the end of 2002–03 season, Aliuță leaves Steaua București after an altercation with the club's Chief Executive Mihai Stoica. Rapid Bucharest is his next club, which he left after only few weeks to play in Korea for Chunnam Dragons and then in the 2005–06 season he played for FC Metalurg Donetsk.

In November 2006, he signed a two-year contract with Iraklis Thessaloniki.^[1] After a 1-year spell in Greece, he returned to Romania where he signed for FC Timişoara, a club with a huge fan base. In the summer of 2008, he moved to UEFA Cup contenders FC Vaslui. But after only 11 games he had a dispute with the club's powerful owner, Adrian Porumboiu and was given a free transfer. In the beginning of 2009 signed for the Azerbaijan club Neftchi Baku, joining his long-time friend Adrian Neaga.