Romanian striker Ciprian Marika

Chiprian Marika is a Romanian footballer, who is currently without a team, but has not yet completed his professional career. He is 31 years old, and his contract with Steaua was not extended, so from July 1, 2016, he is looking for a new job. Chiprian Marika acts as the central striker, but at the same time is flexible. He can also play on the positions of both the right and left winger.

Carier start

Chiprian Marika was born on October 2, 1985 in Romania, where at eleven years he joined the football academy of one of the strongest clubs in the country - the Bucharest "Dynamo". All his youth he spent there, constantly developing his talent and demonstrating what he is capable of attacking. Already in the season 2001/2002, when Ciprianu was 16 years old, the athlete was first summoned to the adult team and held two matches for her. The following year, the player was periodically on the replacement and appeared on the field 14 times, already then having scored his first goal for the club. In 2003, Chiprian Marika celebrated his adulthood and signed a professional contract with the club.

Club career

Marika Ciprian is a great talent of her time. In 2003, scouts of other clubs started looking at him, so in his native team he spent only half of the season playing in sixteen matches and scoring six goals. Already in the winter of 2004 young talent went to Shakhtar Donetsk, which paid him five million euros. There, the athlete finished the ending of the season, going to the field in 15 games and scoring 4 goals.

The next three years, Marika spent in Shakhtar, opening there and becoming one of the key players. In total for the club football player played 119 matches, scoring 24 goals in them. Also, the athlete won three championship titles and one Cup of Ukraine - these were the only trophies in his career.

In the summer of 2007, out on the peak of his career, Marika moved to the top championship: in the Bundesliga for him seven million euros was paid by Stuttgart. For four years, Marika spent in the camp of "swabs", playing 132 games and scoring 30 goals, which drew the attention of one of the strongest clubs in Germany - "Schalke". As the Gelsenkirchen club showed interest in him, Chiprian did not extend the current agreement with Stuttgart and in the summer of 2013, as a free agent, moved to Schalke. There, the player played for two years, but could not get to the proper level: in 52 games, he scored only 9 goals. As a result, the club did not renew his contract with him, and in the summer of 2013, Marika was left without work for the first time.

Only by the end of September the athlete was able to agree on a short-term agreement with the Spanish "Getafe", for which he spent one year, scoring seven goals in 29 matches. The following summer the football player moved to Turkish "Konyaspor" for free, for which he spent only eight matches, scoring two goals. Ciprian wanted to stay for a season, went on the field one more time, but in October the contract with him was torn by mutual consent, the reasons for this were not disclosed.

As a result, Marika remained without a club until the winter transfer window, and then signed a six-year contract with the Romanian Steaua. There the athlete played nine games, scored no goals, impressed the management and in the summer of 2016 again remained without work. But this time the club could not find itself, and as of October 2016, it still did not sign an agreement with any of the teams.

National team appearances

Chiprian Marica is an attacker, who played a lot for the national team of Romania. He has 71 matches since November 2003. Together with Romania, the athlete went to the European Championships in 2008, but remained in all three matches on the bench. Marika is also one of the top five scorers in the history of the country with 25 goals on the account.