Dan Potocianu
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dan Ion Potocianu | ||
| Date of birth | 5 March 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Reșița, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | CSM Reșița (youth manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1991 | CSM Reșița | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1993 | CSM Reșița | 28 | (0) |
| 1993–1997 | Național București | 118 | (6) |
| 1997–2000 | Servette | 54 | (2) |
| 1999 | → Basel (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2000–2002 | Național București | 40 | (1) |
| Total | 250 | (9) | |
| International career | |||
| 1990–1991 | Romania U18 | 6 | (0) |
| 1992–1995 | Romania U21 | 24 | (1) |
| 1997 | Romania | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2008–2009 | FCM Reșița | ||
| 2009–2010 | CFR Timișoara | ||
| 2014–2016 | CSMȘ Reșița | ||
| 2016–2022 | CSMȘ Reșița (youth) | ||
| 2017 | CSM Reșița (assistant) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Dan Ion Potocianu (born 5 March 1974) is a former Romanian professional footballer who played as a defender.
Potocianu was born on 5 March 1974 in Reșița, Romania.[1][2] He began playing football in 1990 at Divizia B club CSM Reșița.[1][3] In the 1991–92 season, the team earned promotion to the first league.[1] Subsequently, he made his Divizia A debut on 16 August 1992 under coach Ion Copăceanu in a 3–2 home win over Inter Sibiu.[1][4]
In 1993, Potocianu went to Național București.[1][2][3] He played four games in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup edition, eliminating Partizan Belgrade and Chornomorets Odesa in the first rounds, the campaign ending after a 3–1 aggregate loss to Club Brugge.[1][5] During his four-season spell with The Bankers, he helped the team finish twice runner-up in the league.[1] The team also reached the 1997 Cupa României final, but coach Florin Halagian did not use him in the 4–2 loss to Steaua București.[6]
Subsequently, Potocianu joined Servette, making his Nationalliga A debut on 5 July 1997 under coach Gérard Castella in a 2–2 draw against St. Gallen.[1][2][3] The team finished in second place at the end of the season.[1] In the first half of the 1998–99 season, he played 10 matches and scored once.[1] Afterwards he went to Basel for the second half, but Servette won the title without him.[1][2][3] At Basel, Potocianu played his first match under coach Guy Mathez in a 2–1 defeat to Servette.[1][7][8] During his short period with the club, Potocianu played 10 league games for Basel without scoring a goal.[1][2][9] He returned to Servette for the 1999–2000 season, totaling 64 matches with two goals in the Swiss league.[1]
Potocianu came back to Național, where in the 2001–02 season he helped the team earn a runner-up position in the league.[1][2][3] An injury forced him to retire in 2002 at the age of 28.[2][10][11] He has a total of 186 matches with seven goals in Divizia A and eight matches in European competitions.[1][3][12]
International career
From 1990 to 1995, Potocianu was consistently featured for Romania's under-18 and under-21 sides.[13]
He made one appearance for Romania, when on 6 September 1997, coach Anghel Iordănescu sent him in the 46th minute to replace Anton Doboș in a 8–1 away win against Liechtenstein in the 1998 World Cup qualifiers.[14]
Managerial career
After ending his career, Potocianu coached teams such as FCM Reșița and CFR Timișoara in the Romanian lower leagues.[10][15] He also coached juniors at Reșița.[16]