Dănuț Coman

Daniel Coman
Personal information
Full name Daniel Dumitru Coman
Date of birth (1979-03-28) 28 March 1979
Place of birth Ștefănești, Romania
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Astra Giurgiu (chairman)
Youth career
1990–1997 Argeș Pitești
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2004 Argeș Pitești 61 (0)
2005–2008 Rapid București 83 (0)
2008–2010 FC Brașov 33 (0)
2010–2012 Rapid București 42 (0)
2012–2013 Vaslui 18 (0)
2013–2015 Astra Giurgiu 16 (0)
Total 253 (0)
National team
2005–2009 Romania 14 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Daniel Dumitru Coman (born 28 March 1979 in Ștefănești, Argeș) is a former Romanian goalkeeper. He is the chairman of Astra Giurgiu.

Biography and career

He started playing football at 18 years old, at FC Argeș Pitești and played his first game in A Division (first Romanian league) on 28 February 1998 against Dinamo Bucharest but unfortunately for him he was defeated twice and his team lost with 2–0. In the first season for FC Argeș 1997–1998 he played another three games.

In the next season he did not get any opportunity to play and at the half of the season was transferred to Rocar Bucharest where he played 10 games. He returned to FC Argeș in 1999 but did not play too much in the next four seasons, only 17 games during this time. Starting with the 2003–04 season, Coman became the titular goalkeeper in FC Argeș's goal and played in most of the games: 22. The next season was the last for him at FC Argeș Pitești and at the half of season was transferred to Rapid Bucharest. In total he played 69 games for FC Argeș.

At the end of his first season for Rapid Bucharest, they finished on the third place in the championship and Coman played in almost all the games, only missing one. In the next season 2005–06, Coman played in 22 games and in the end the club finished the season in second place and won the vice-champion title and the Romanian Cup after they defeated FC National Bucharest in the final.

In the European Cups Coman debuted with Rapid Bucharest in the 2005–06 season in UEFA Cup. This was the best season for Rapid in Europe. They succeeded to qualify in UEFA Cup's groups after they eliminated Feyenoord Rotterdam in a group with PAOK Thessaloniki, Shakhtar Donetsk, Stade Rennais F.C. and VfB Stuttgart. Rapid defeated PAOK, Shakhtar and Rennes and where defeated by VfB Stuttgart but they still qualified in the next round where they eliminated Hertha BSC after two great games by Coman. They also eliminated another German team, Hamburger SV and played the quarter final against Steaua Bucharest, their great Romanian rival. After two draws they lost the qualification against Steaua.

On 13 December 2008, Coman, who was tracked by Bordeaux and Standard Liége, left Rapid Bucharest to sign for FC Brașov only to return to Rapid in the 2010 season.

Coman left Rapid on 16 July 2012 to sign a two-year contract with FC Vaslui. After only one season, he left Vaslui to play for Astra Giurgiu, where he ended his career in 2015, but agreed to stay at the club as chairman.

International career

Coman has in total 14 caps for Romania. He debuted on 16 November 2005 in a friendly game against Nigeria and played another 5 games after this. After some mistakes made by Bogdan Lobonț in the game against Bulgaria, he became the regular goalkeeper for Romania.

He was originally supposed to be Romania's second choice goalkeeper for Euro 2008, behind Bogdan Lobonț, but a last minute injury before the tournament made coach Victor Pițurcă to call Eduard Stăncioiu of CFR Cluj.

Honours

Club

Rapid Bucharest
Astra Giurgiu


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