Dan Ion Potocianu (born 5 March 1974) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a defender during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Dan Potocianu
Personal information
Full name Dan Ion Potocianu
Date of birth (1974-03-05) 5 March 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth Reșița, Romania
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
CSM Reșița (youth manager)
Youth career
CSM Reșița
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1993 CSM Reșița 28 (0)
1993–1997 Naţional București 118 (6)
1997–2000 Servette 54 (2)
1999FC Basel (loan) 10 (0)
2000–2002 Naţional București 40 (1)
Total 250 (9)
International career
1997 Romania 1 (0)
Managerial career
2008–2009 FCM Reșița
2009–2010 CFR Timișoara
2014–2016 CSMȘ Reșița
2016– CSMȘ Reșița (youth)
2017 CSM Reșița (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

edit

Potocianu started playing professionally in 1990 with his home-town team FCM Reșița. In 1993, he earned a move to FC Progresul București where he went on to make over 100 appearances before leaving for Switzerland's Servette FC in 1997. While at Servette, he had a loan spell.

Potocianu joined FC Basel's first team on loan during the second half of their 1998–99 season under head coach Guy Mathez. Potocianu played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game in the Charmilles Stadium on 13 March 1999 as Basel were defeated 1–2 by Servette.[1] During his short loan period with the club, Potocianu played a total of 12 games for Basel without scoring a goal. 10 of these games were in the Nationalliga A and two were friendly games.[2]

He returned to Progresul București in 2000, but injury forced him to retire in 2002 at the age of 28.

He was capped once for the Romania national team, as a second-half substitute for Anton Doboş in an 8-1 European Championships Qualifying win over Liechtenstein in Eschen on 6 September 1997.

Honours

edit
CSM Reșița
Naţional București
Servette

References

edit
  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (13 March 1999). "Servette FC - FC Basel 2:1 (2:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (2002). "Dan Potocianu - FCB statistic". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2020.

Sources

edit
edit