Adrian Mihalcea
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Adrian Dumitru Mihalcea | ||
| Date of birth | 24 May 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Slobozia, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1996 | Dunărea Călăraşi | 34 | (4) |
| 1996–2001 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 164 | (68) |
| 2001–2003 | Genoa | 41 | (11) |
| 2003–2004 | Hellas Verona | 25 | (4) |
| 2004–2005 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 17 | (1) |
| 2005 | Chunnam Dragons | 3 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | FC Vaslui | 13 | (1) |
| 2006–2008 | Aris Limassol | 48 | (27) |
| 2008–2009 | AEL Limassol | 23 | (5) |
| 2009–2010 | Aris Limassol | 28 | (8) |
| 2010–2011 | Astra Ploieşti | 8 | (1) |
| 2011 | Unirea Urziceni | 15 | (3) |
| 2011–2012 | Concordia Chiajna | 18 | (1) |
| 2012–2013 | Unirea Slobozia | 17 | (5) |
| Total | 454 | (139) | |
| National team | |||
| 1995–1997 | Romania U-21 | 10 | (3) |
| 1998–2003 | Romania | 16 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2013–2015 | Unirea Slobozia | ||
| 2015 | ACS Berceni | ||
| 2016– | Dunărea Călărași | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Adrian Mihalcea (born 24 May 1976 in Slobozia) is a former Romanian football striker.
Mihalcea spent many years playing with one of the top Romanian teams, Dinamo Bucharest, where he won the Romanian First Division championship in 2000 and the Romanian Cup in 2000 and again in 2001.
Mihalcea started the 2001 season for Dinamo Bucharest in excellent form, scoring 11 goals in 14 league matches, and earned 5th place in the competition for the 2001 Romanian Footballer of the Year award. This performance attracted the interest of Italian Serie B side Genoa 1893, and Mihalcea signed for the club in January 2002. The following season Mihalcea scored 9 goals in Serie B and was Genoa's leading goalscorer for the campaign. In summer 2003, he was sold to fellow Serie B club Hellas Verona and enjoyed another good season scoring 5 goals in 20 league matches for his new club.
After the experience in Italy, a return to Dinamo Bucharest in 2004 was disappointing, with Mihalcea struggling for goals as the team narrowly missed out on the Romanian championship. They saved the season and managed, with Mihalcea one of the team's captains, to win the Romanian Cup. He scored only one goal that season, against Sportul Studenţesc.
Mihalcea was sold again at the end of that season, in the summer of 2005, this time to South-Korean club Chunnam Dragons, but he only played 5 games without scoring there and because he could not adapt to the Asian style of life and football he came back home. He was free of contract for about 2 months and trained alone in Bucharest, at his ex-team Dinamo Bucharest's stadium. At the beginning of March 2006 he signed a 3-month contract with Romanian side FC Vaslui. At this point he was no longer in the attention of the Romanian national football team.
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