Florin Cernat

Florin Lucian Cernat (born 10 March 1980) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and playmaker. He made 14 appearances for the Romania national team scoring two goals.

Florin Cernat
Cernat playing for Çaykur Rizespor in 2013
Personal information
Full name Florin Lucian Cernat
Date of birth (1980-03-10) 10 March 1980
Place of birth Galați, Romania
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, Playmaker
Team information
Current team
 Voluntari (sporting director)
Youth career
1986–1998 Oțelul Galați
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–1999 Oțelul Galați 36 (5)
2000 Dinamo București 25 (2)
2001–2009 Dynamo Kyiv 138 (31)
2001–2004 → Dynamo-2 Kyiv 14 (1)
2007–2008 → Hajduk Split (loan) 28 (8)
2009–2010 Hajduk Split 25 (2)
2010–2013 Kardemir Karabükspor 68 (19)
2013–2014 Çaykur Rizespor 34 (11)
2014–2015 Oțelul Galați 26 (6)
2015–2016 Viitorul Constanța 17 (8)
2016–2018 Voluntari 59 (11)
Total 470 (104)
International career
1998 Romania U18 2 (0)
2000–2002 Romania U21 12 (4)
2002–2004 Romania 14 (2)
Managerial career
2018– Voluntari (sporting director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Oțelul Galați & Dinamo București

Florin Cernat started his professional career at Oțelul Galați. In 2000, he was noticed by Dinamo Bucharest.

Dinamo ended up buying him. The rising star was played most of the entire 2000–01 season, appearing for 25 out of 30 league matches. He helped the team finish second in the league and qualify for the UEFA Cup. Cernat also participated in the team's UEFA Champions League 2000-01 campaign, which ended prematurely in the second round.

Dynamo Kyiv

During that period, Dynamo Kyiv's coach, Valeriy Lobanovskiy was looking for players to replace the stars that he had recently sold. This included Andriy Shevchenko and Kakha Kaladze to AC Milan, Serhii Rebrov to Tottenham Hotspur, and Oleh Luzhnyi to Arsenal. In July 2001 Cernat transferred to Dynamo Kyiv, where he contributed to the team and won many titles.

Returning from loan to Dynamo, Cernat was rarely able to prove himself under new coach Yuri Semin. On 24 December 2008, Cernat announced that he would leave Kyiv in the summer after 8 years.[1]

One of his most notable games for Dynamo occurred in the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, Group Stage game 2 (28 September 2004) against Bayer Leverkusen. Cernat came off as a substitute and scored the third and fourth goal for Dynamo in a 4–2 victory at Olympiskiy stadium.

Hajduk Split

With new coach Anatoliy Demyanenko in 2005, Florin Cernat came out of favour with the coach and rarely saw the field. For the 2007–08 season, Demyanenko loaned him off to the Croatian Premier League club Hajduk Split for a transfer fee of 312,000 £. There, his team earned second place in the Croatian Cup, losing in the final to Dinamo Zagreb.

After the completion of the Ukrainian Premier League 2008-09 season Cernat signed new deal with his former club Hajduk Split.[2]

Kardemir Karabükspor

In August 2010 he signed a five-year deal with Turkish Süper Lig club Kardemir Karabükspor.

Çaykur Rizespor

In March 2013, he signed for newcomers Çaykur Rizespor. He immediately was given the number 10 and was awarded the captainship. Cernat helped his side to get promoted to the Süper Lig.

Return to Oțelul

In September 2014, Cernat accepted the offer to return to Oțelul Galați, the first club of his career. He signed a contract for a season, with an option to extend the deal for an extra season.[3]

Style of play

Cernat was known for his excellent passing play, great vision on field, and highly precise free-kicks and exceptional dribbling ability.

Career statistics
Appearances and goals by national team and year[4]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Romania 200260
200310
200472
Total142
Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Cernat goal.[4]
List of international goals scored by Florin Cernat
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
118 February 2004GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus Georgia3–03–0Cyprus International Tournament
28 September 2004Estadi Comunal d'Aixovall, Andorra la Vella, Andorra Andorra1–05–12006 FIFA World Cup qualification[5]

Honours

Dinamo București

Dynamo Kyiv

Hajduk Split

FC Voluntari

References
  1. Florin Cernat: Teams from Turkey, Russia and Emirates are interested in me Archived 13 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine - UkrainianSoccer.net, Accessed 26 December 2008
  2. (in Russian) Чернат возвращается в "Хайдук" (Cernat returns to "Hajduk") - 26 June 2009
  3. Marian Căpăţînă (2014). "Florin Cernat a semnat cu Oţelul Galaţi" (in Romanian). ProSport.
  4. "Florin Cernat". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  5. eu-football.info
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