Cosmin Vâtcă

Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă, (born 12 May 1982, Turda), is a Romanian retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.[1]

Cosmin Vâtcă
Personal information
Full name Cosmin Andrei Vâtcă
Date of birth (1982-05-12) 12 May 1982
Place of birth Turda, Romania
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
CSȘ Turda
Arieșul Turda
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2005 Bihor Oradea 45 (0)
2006–2007 Oțelul Galați 48 (0)
2007–2010 Steaua București 0 (0)
2009–2010 → Gaz Metan Mediaș (loan) 25 (0)
2010–2011 Gaz Metan Mediaș 7 (0)
2012 Rapid București 3 (0)
2012–2014 Viitorul Constanța 21 (0)
2014 Gaz Metan Mediaș 0 (0)
2014–2018 CFR Cluj 21 (0)
2018–2019 Voluntari 28 (0)
2019–2020 CFR Cluj 4 (0)
Total 202 (0)
National team‡
2009 Romania 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 December 2019
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 April 2009

Club career

Vâtcă began his career in his home town of Turda at CSS Turda. The first important club for which he played was FC Bihor. He made his debut in Liga I (then Divizia A), on 2 May 2004, in a match against Steaua București. He signed for €12,000 with Oțelul Galați in January 2006. The first match he played for Oțelul Galați was the shocking 3-0 away win against Dinamo București.

He has the reputation of a good goalkeeper, with very good reflexes who sometimes makes mistakes. In the 2006-2007 season, he made 33 appearances in Liga I for Oțelul Galați, having conceded 54 goals. He joined Steaua București in the summer of 2007 for €550,000, but he did not play in any matches during the 2007/2008 season of Liga I. He played in two Romanian Cup matches, against FCM Bacău (4-0) and Unirea Urziceni (0-2).

Oțelul Galați wanted to sign him back after the competitional break started. Oțelul Galați's goalkeepers, Ismail Kouha, Paulius Grybauskas and Valentin Borș have had some bad evolutions, which made the team's board to turn their attention to Vâtcă. But, the team's president, Marius Stan, dismissed all speculation and said that Oţelul would not buy back Vâtcă. After his contract with Steaua ended, he signed with Gaz Metan Mediaș as a free agent.[2]

In January 2012, he signed a contract for three years with Rapid București.[3]

Honours

Club
CFR Cluj

References
  1. 5 TRANSFERURI LA REUNIRE!. cfr1907.ro (in Romanian)
  2. "Vâtcă is a free agent!" (in Romanian). ProSport. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  3. "Inca o achizitie: Vatca" (in Romanian). fcrapid.ro. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
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