Cristian Tanase
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Cristian Tănase is a Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n football player, who plays for Steaua Bucureşti. He is a versatile midfielder that has played as a left winger, a right winger and as a central attacking midfield. His nickname is Dodel.

Career

Tănase began his career on youthside for Argeş Piteşti and in the summer of 2003 was promoted to the Liga I
Liga I
Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier, is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A"...

 team, having played for half a year in the 2005/2006 season five games for Dacia Mioveni
Dacia Mioveni
Clubul Sportiv Mioveni is a Romanian football team from Mioveni, Argeş County, founded in 2000, currently playing in the Liga I.-History:The club was founded in 2000 under the name AS Mioveni...

 on loan.

Steaua

On 6 August 2009 he signed a 5-year contract with Steaua Bucureşti for a transfer fee of 1,8 million euros. Argeş Piteşti will be receiving also 50% of a future transfer fee. Juventus Torino and other clubs like Fiorentina, Besiktas
Besiktas J.K.
Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü , or simply Beşiktaş , is a Turkish sports club. The club's football team is one of the major teams in Turkey. The professional sports club, founded in 1903, is based in the Beşiktaş district in Istanbul, Turkey...

, Shakhtar and Stuttgart
VfB Stuttgart
Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team, which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons...

 eyed the Romanian starlet until he signed his current club. Many have claimed Tănase is the new Adrian Mutu
Adrian Mutu
Adrian Mutu is a Romanian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Cesena.-Argeş Piteşti:Mutu began his professional career with his home club Argeş Piteşti...

.

On 13 December 2009 he scored his first goal for Steaua in a 3–2 victory against Internaţional Curtea de Argeş, which was a fantastic winning goal in the 72nd minute.

In the 2010–11 he scored 3 goals, 2 in the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League and one from a spectacular volley against Liga I
Liga I
Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier, is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A"...

 side Pandurii Targu Jiu. in the 2011–12 season he showed he was in perfect form by scoring in a 4–0 win against Liga I
Liga I
Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier, is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A"...

 side CS Dacia Mioveni and scored the goal that qualified his team in the 2011-12 UEFA Europa League against CSKA Sofia. He continue his perfect form. Scored 2 essential goals against Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Haifa F.C.
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. On November 6 he scored another goal against Liga I
Liga I
Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier, is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A"...

 side Concordia Chiajna with a knuckle ball shot to the far post.

International career

Tănase played his debut for the Romania national football team
Romania national football team
The Romania national football team is the national football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation.Romania is one of only four national teams, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium, that took part in the first three World Cups.However, after that...

 in a friendly game on 19 November 2008 against Georgia
Georgia national football team
The Georgia national football team is the national association football team of Georgia and is controlled by the Georgian Football Federation. The Georgian team's first match took place in 1990, while Georgia was still part of the Soviet Union. The team have attempted to qualify for each major...

.
On 1 April 2009 he scored his first goal against Austria
Austria national football team
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.

Club

(Correct as of 6 November 2011)
Club Season League Cup Europe
UEFA
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Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
FC Argeş
FC Arges Pitesti
FC Argeş Piteşti is a Romanian professional football club from Piteşti, Argeş county.FC Argeş was one of the most successful Romanian clubs in the 1970s, when it won the national championship twice: in 1972 and 1979, and finished twice as runner-up...

2003–04 1 0 ? ? 0 0 1 0
2004–05 2 0 ? ? 0 0 2 0
Total 30??0030
CS Mioveni
2005–06 5 0 ? ? 0 0 5 0
Total 50??0050
FC Argeş
FC Arges Pitesti
FC Argeş Piteşti is a Romanian professional football club from Piteşti, Argeş county.FC Argeş was one of the most successful Romanian clubs in the 1970s, when it won the national championship twice: in 1972 and 1979, and finished twice as runner-up...

2005–06 16 1 ? ? 0 0 16 1
2006–07 25 0 ? ? 0 0 25 0
2007–08 29 4 ? ? 0 0 29 4
2008–09 32 2 ? ? 0 0 32 2
Total 1027??001027
Steaua Bucureşti
2009–10
2009–10 Liga I
The 2009–10 Liga I season was the ninety-second since its establishment. Unirea Urziceni were the defending champions.- Teams :Farul Constanţa, Otopeni and Gloria Buzău were relegated at the end of the 2008–09 season after finishing in 16th through 18th place...

21 1 ? ? 4 0 25 1
2010–11
2010–11 Liga I
The 2010–11 Liga I was the ninety-third season of the top-level football league of Romania. The season commenced on 23 July 2010 and ended on 21 May 2011. A winter break where no matches were played was held between December 11, 2010 and February 18, 2011...

27 1 4 0 8 2 39 3
2011–12
2011–12 Liga II
The 2011–12 Liga II is the 72nd season of the Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The league structure have two series of 16 teams each. The first two teams in each series will promote and the last five in each series will relegate...

11 6 0 0 5 3 16 5
Total 59440175809
Career total 169 16 4 0 17 5 190 16

Honours

Season Club Title
2010–11
2010–11 Cupa României
The 2010–11 Cupa României is the seventy-third season of the annual Romanian football knockout tournament. It began on 17 July 2010 with the matches of the first round. For the third consecutive season, CFR Cluj were the defending champions...

 Kingdom of Romania Steaua Bucureşti Cupa României


International goals

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after the player's goal.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 1 April 2009 Hypo-Arena, Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt
-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...

, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 
1–0 1–2 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
2 15 November 2011 Stadion Schnabelholz
Stadion Schnabelholz
Stadion Schnabelholz is a multi-use stadium in Altach, Austria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of SC Rheindorf Altach. The stadium holds 8,900 and was built in 1990....

, Altach
Altach
Altach is a municipality in Feldkirch district, Vorarlberg state, Austria. It has a population of 6,512.- Geography :Altach lies in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg at 412 m above sea level. Its total area is 5.36 km²...

, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 
2–1 3–1 Friendly match
Exhibition game
An exhibition game is a sporting event in which there is no competitive value of any significant kind to any competitor regardless of the outcome of the competition...


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