Dorin Goian
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| Dorin Goian | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nicolae Dorin Goian | |
| Date of birth | December 12, 1980 | |
| Place of birth | Suceava, Romania | |
| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | |
| Playing position | Centre Back | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Steaua Bucureşti | |
| Number | 3 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1997-98 1999-00 1999-00 2000-01 2002-03 2003-04 2004- |
Foresta II Fălticeni Foresta Fălticeni → Gloria Buzău (loan) Foresta Fălticeni Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ FCM Bacău Steaua Bucureşti |
14 (0) 2 (0) 19 (0) 26 (2) 45 (2) 26 (2) 78 (5) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2005- | Romania | 19 (3) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Nicolae Dorin Goian, (born December 12, 1980 in Suceava), is a Romanian football player. He is renowned for scoring a lot of goals even though he is a center back. He currently plays for Steaua Bucuresti and for the Romanian national football team. He is known to Steaua's fans as "Goe", a nickname derived from his given name.
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[edit] Club career
[edit] Foresta Falticeni (1997-01)
In 1997, aged 17, Goian was signed by Foresta Falticeni, a football club from Suceava County, where he played for the club's second team. Two years later he was promoted to the first team.
He made his first appearance in the [[Liga I|Divizia A] in 2000, when he was 20 years old in a match versus Gloria Bistrita. It was a happy debut for the young center back, his team won the match with 2-0. Foresta Falticeni didn’t manage to keep up the good work, so at the end of the season relegated in the second division and never reached the first division again.
Despite the lamentable performances of his actual team Foresta that only managed to get the 10th place in the second division, Dorin Goian was remarked by the officials of Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt a small team from the First Romanian Division and he was transferred here at the middle of the season.
Marin Barbu, the coach that discovered Dorin Goian compared him to Gulliver because of his height. He said that Dorin was a simple and hard-working boy, coming from a modest family and he never had problems with him. He also said that Goian was a model player for the other kids from his generation.
During his Foresta Falticeni years he was also loaned to Gloria Buzau for a few months in 2000.
[edit] Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt (2002-03)
After the season 2003-2004 Ceahlaul has the same faith as Foresta and relegates in the second division, but Dorin Goian is already one of the most hunted center back from the internal competition, so he sings a contract with another small team from the first division FCM Bacau.
He played for Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt for one year making 45 appearances and scoring 2 goals.
[edit] FCM Bacau (2003-04)
In 2003 he signed with FCM Bacau and played for Bacau 26 matched while scoring 2 goals. While he was playing here, Dorin Goian was selected for the Romania national football team.
After a great half of season with FCM Bacau (2004-2005), Goian manages to find a perfect shape to impress Steaua Bucuresti’s officials. At the middle of the season Goian makes the jump to one of the most important teams in Romania and his dream begins to take shape.
[edit] Steaua Bucureşti (2004-present)
Steaua paid $100.000 for Dorin Goian, in the autumn of 2004, after 5 hours of negotiations with Gheorghe Chivorchian, FCM Bacau's owner. Goian signed a 5 year contract with Steaua. From FCM Bacau also came Andrei Cristea, Eugen Baciu and Florin Lovin which were bought by Steaua. At that time, he was said to be a player with great qualities, who could potentially play for the Romania national football team.
Even though he only played 4 games this season for Steaua, Goian continued to fight for a place in the first 11 and starting with the next season (2005-2006) the young center back managed to win the trust of his coach and implicitly he became one of the irreplaceable players from the team.
Goian scored his first goal in the Uefa Cup, against Vålerenga I.F. for Steaua with a perfect header inside the box. He soon became a top scorer for Steaua in the Uefa Cup season 2005-06 after scoring against R.C. Lens, Halmstads BK and also SC Heerenveen. He scored his team's second goal in the 2-4 loss away at Middlesbrough FC in the UEFA Cup semifinal, when Steaua were denied qualification in the final by conceding a goal in the 89th minute (they had won the home leg 1-0 and had taken a 2-0 lead in the away game 25 minutes in).
In the Uefa Champions League 2007-08 season Steaua played against Zaglebie Lubin and BATE Borisov in order to qualify in the group stage. With the help of Goian, who scored against both teams, Steaua managed to qualify in the group stage. He would then score again for Steaua against Slavia Prague, but it wasn't enough and Steaua lost the game with 2-1.
Goian was captain for the first time for Steaua on 24 October 2007 against Sevilla FC when Nicolae Dica, the captain, was substituted. The match ended 2-1 for Sevilla FC.
Goian was 50% Steaua's player and also 50% FCM Bacau's player, the team from which he transferred to Steaua. There was a clause in his contract, which said that if he would be sold to a foreign club, Steaua will have to pay FCM Bacau 50% off the transfer fee, but not more than €1 million. Gigi Becali, Steaua's owner, paid €1 million to FCM Bacau and so Goian belongs entirely to Steaua. Becali paid the fee after the match against Slavia Prague in the Uefa Champions League group stage on 16 October 2007.
Goian was the most booked player from Steaua in the 2007-08 season in Liga I with 9 yellow cards and one red card.
| Club | Season | Domestic League | Domestic Cups | Continental games | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||||
| FC Steaua Bucureşti | |||||||||||
| 07-08 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 28 | 5 | |||
| 06-07 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 42 | 1 | |||
| 05-06 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 38 | 6 | |||
| 04-05 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Total | 76 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 33 | 8 | 112 | 13 | |||
| Last updated March 23, 2008 | |||||||||||
[edit] Transfer Offers
Borussia Dortmund showed interested in acquiring a center-back and contacted Steaua for Dorin Goian on 17 June 2007. But shortly after, they withdrew and signed with Robert Kovac from Juventus Torino.
The officials of VfB Stuttgart were impressed by Goian's performance against the Netherlands on 13 October 2007 and were willing to pay €3,8 million for him, but Gigi Becali said that he will not give Goian up for at least €4.5 million.
On 17 October 2007 Le Quotidien stated that Dorin Goian will join Manchester United next winter. Because of the impressive performances made by Goian this season many important clubs were scouting him. After "Goe" scored for Romania against Netherlands in Euro 2008, Gigi Becali raised his price up to €5 million. Manchester United currently have centre backs: Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidić, Mikaël Silvestre and John O'Shea on their books. Adrian Ilie said that "Goian has proved to be a valuable player, he scored decisive goals in Liga I. He has the qualities to play for Manchester United, because he plays in the defensive structure and also scored goals.
Another offer came in October 2007 for Goian from Manchester City. Rumour has it that the offer was of €10 million. However this never came to fruition. The Manchester United scouters have watched him during the Romania - Netherlands match, which was won by Romania 1-0 with the only goal scored by Goian. He was also watched by Manchester City in the UEFA Cup semifinal against Middlesbrough, where he would score again.
Also Newcastle has showed interes in the central defender Dorin Goian on 3 December 2007, tracked by other english and german clubs.
Aston Villa were also been linked with a move for Goian in the January 2008 transfer window. Reports in Romania are suggesting Villa are set to sign 6ft 5in for around £5million in the summer of 2008.
On 9 May 2008 after being tracked by Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund since last summer, Goian in now watched by Werder Bremen too. The germans are also waiting for his performance from EURO 2008 in order to see him in a bigger competition than Liga 1 and they will decide then his future. Several ex-football players from Romania stated that he would fit well in the Bundesliga.[1]
[edit] International career
He was selected by Victor Piturca for the Romanian national football team in 16 November 2005 against Nigeria, thus being his first appereance in Romanian national football team.
As of October 13, 2007, Goian won seventeen caps for Romania, scoring three times. The most important goal scored by him was against Netherlands.
75% of the Romanian national football team matches in the Euro 2008 qualifying stages were played with Goian on the field from the first minute.
[edit] International goals
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | October 7, 2006 | Bucharest, Romania |  Belarus |
3-1 | Win | UEFA Euro 2008 Qual. |
| 2 | September 12, 2007 | Koln, Germany |  Germany |
1-3 | Loss | Friendly |
| 3 | October 13, 2007 | Constanţa, Romania |  Netherlands |
1-0 | Win | UEFA Euro 2008 Qual. |
[edit] Career honours/achievements
[edit] Personal and family life
On 23 December 2006 he became father for the first time. His wife, Nadia, gave birth to a girl, who they named Maria.
Dorin's brother, Lucian, is also a professional footballer who play for Dinamo Bucureşti, Steaua's famous rivals.
[edit] External links
- Dorin Goian's career - RomanianSoccer.ro (English)
- Dorin Goian's profile - UEFA.com (English)
- Dorin Goian's Steaua career - FcSteaua.ro (Romanian)
- FC Steaua Bucuresti fans A popular fans' website with information and news about FC Steaua.
- FC Steaua Bucuresti Oficial Site
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