Florin Prunea

Florin Prunea (born 8 August 1968) is a Romanian former football goalkeeper. He was born in Bucharest and started his career for Dinamo București. His breakthrough came with U Cluj in the 1988/89 season. In 1991, he won with Universitatea Craiova both the title and the Romanian Cup. Later he was the first-choice goalkeeper for Dinamo București for six seasons.

Florin Prunea
Prunea in 1994
Personal information
Date of birth (1968-08-08) 8 August 1968
Place of birth București, Romania
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Dinamo București (general manager)
Youth career
1977–1985 Dinamo București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1988 Dinamo București 4 (0)
1988–1990 Universitatea Cluj 56 (0)
1990–1991 Universitatea Craiova 32 (0)
1991–1992 Universitatea Cluj 16 (0)
1992–1998 Dinamo București 160 (0)
1998 Universitatea Cluj 7 (0)
1998–1999 Erzurumspor 11 (0)
1999 Astra Ploiești 1 (0)
1999–2000 FC U Craiova 24 (0)
2000 Litex Lovech 8 (0)
2000–2002 Dinamo București 22 (0)
2002–2003 FCM Bacău 27 (0)
2003–2004 Brașov 14 (0)
2004 FCM Bacău 15 (0)
2004–2005 Skoda Xanthi 2 (0)
2005–2006 Național București 4 (0)
Total 403 (0)
National team
1990–2001 Romania 40 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Prunea got 40 caps for the national team, and represented his country at the 1994 World Cup, Euro 1996, 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. In the 1994 World Cup, he replaced Bogdan Stelea as the goalkeeper in Romania's starting eleven after a devastating 1–4 loss against Switzerland, which shattered Stelea's confidence. Although Prunea kept a clean sheet in Romania's final group game against the USA, he performed rather badly in the Round of 16 game against Argentina, conceding an easy goal against Balbo in the 75th minute; however, due to splendid performances by Dumitrescu and Hagi, the result of the game was 3–2 for Romania.

Another mistake in the quarter-final game against Sweden would not go by unpunished, however. After a goal by Brolin in the 78th minute and double goals by Răducioiu in the 88th and 101st minute, the outcome seemed to be Romanian victory yet again; but with five minutes to the final whistle, Prunea gave giant striker Kennet Andersson the chance to level the score to 2–2. The game went on to penalties where Sweden won 5–4 after two spectacular saves by Thomas Ravelli.

Honours
Dinamo București
Universitatea Craiova
Litex Lovech
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