Cristian Săpunaru
Săpunaru training with Porto in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ionuț Cristian Săpunaru | ||
| Date of birth | 5 April 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender / Defensive midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Astra Giurgiu | ||
| Number | 22 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1990–2002 | Național București | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2006 | Național București | 34 | (3) |
| 2003–2004 | → Callatis Mangalia (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2006–2008 | Rapid București | 51 | (3) |
| 2008–2012 | Porto | 67 | (3) |
| 2010 | → Rapid București (loan) | 10 | (3) |
| 2012–2013 | Zaragoza | 29 | (2) |
| 2013–2014 | Elche | 8 | (1) |
| 2015 | Rapid București | 13 | (4) |
| 2015–2016 | Pandurii | 22 | (5) |
| 2016– | Astra Giurgiu | 25 | (6) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006 | Romania U21 | 3 | (0) |
| 2008– | Romania | 21 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 March 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 March 2017 |
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Ionuț Cristian "Cristi" Săpunaru (born 5 April 1984) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays for Astra Giurgiu and the Romania national team mainly as a right back. He can also be deployed as a central defender or a defensive midfielder.
He began his senior career in 2002 with Național București, and went on to make a name for himself at Rapid București. In 2008, he signed with Porto in Portugal where he won ten major honours over the course of four years, including the 2011 Europa League. After two additional seasons in Spain playing for Zaragoza and Elche, he returned to his native country in 2015.
A full international for Romania since 2008, Săpunaru represented the nation in two European Championships.
Săpunaru was born in Bucharest. A product of FC Național București, joining its youth system at the age of only 6, Săpunaru signed with FC Rapid București in July 2006. In the summer of 2008, he was sold for €2.5 million to FC Porto as a replacement for Chelsea-bound José Bosingwa and signed a five-year contract with the Primeira Liga club owning 50% of the player's rights – Romanian sources indicated the price was actually €6 million plus two players.
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