Gheorghe Bucur
Bucur playing for Romania in September 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Gheorghe Bucur | ||
| Date of birth | 8 April 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Winger / Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Voința Crevedia | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2005 | Sportul Studenţesc | 169 | (76) |
| 2005–2010 | Politehnica Timişoara | 124 | (52) |
| 2010–2016 | Kuban Krasnodar | 158 | (28) |
| 2016– | Voința Crevedia | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001 | Romania U-21 | 2 | (1) |
| 2005–2013 | Romania | 26 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 September 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 June 2013 |
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Gheorghe "Gigel" Bucur (born 8 April 1980 in Bucharest) is a Romanian football player who plays for Liga IV side Voința Crevedia. He is a short and speedy forward.
Bucur has won the top league goalscorer award in the Romanian Liga 1 twice, in the 2004–05 and in the 2008–09 seasons. He was tied on goals with another player on both occasions, first with Claudiu Niculescu and then with Florin Costea.
Before joining Politehnica, Bucur had only played for Sportul Studenţesc, where he appeared in 169 matches and scored 76 goals in the first two Romanian leagues. He made his debut in the Divizia A during the 2001–02 season. After winning the title of Romanian top league goalscoarer of the Divizia A in 2006, he was transferred to Timişoara, for a rumored sum of US$800,000.Sorin Rădoi also came to Poli as part of that deal.
In the autumn of 2009 he scored a brace in the Third Champions League Qualifying Round to help Timișoara knockout Shakhtar Donetsk.
On 3 February 2010, he signed a 3-year contract with Russian club Kuban Krasnodar for a fee worth $1.8 million.
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