Playername | Adrian Mutu |
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Fullname | Adrian Mutu |
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Height | |
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Dateofbirth | January 08, 1979 |
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Cityofbirth | Călineşti |
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Countryofbirth | Romania |
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Currentclub | Fiorentina |
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Clubnumber | 10 |
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Position | Striker |
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Years1 | 1996–1999 |
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Years2 | 1999–2000 |
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Years3 | 2000 |
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Years4 | 2000–2002 |
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Years5 | 2002–2003 |
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Years6 | 2003–2004 |
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Years7 | 2005–2006 |
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Years8 | 2006– |
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Clubs1 | Argeş Piteşti |
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Clubs2 | Dinamo Bucureşti |
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Clubs3 | Internazionale |
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Clubs4 | Verona |
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Clubs5 | Parma |
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Clubs6 | Chelsea |
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Clubs7 | Juventus |
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Clubs8 | Fiorentina |
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Caps1 | 41 | goals1 = 11 |
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Caps2 | 33 | goals2 = 22 |
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Caps3 | 10 | goals3 = 0 |
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Caps4 | 57 | goals4 = 16 |
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Caps5 | 31 | goals5 = 18 |
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Caps6 | 27 | goals6 = 6 |
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Caps7 | 33 | goals7 = 7 |
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Caps8 | 112 | goals8 = 54 |
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Nationalyears1 | 2000– |
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Nationalteam1 | Romania |
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Nationalcaps1 | 70 | nationalgoals1 = 32 |
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Pcupdate | 27 May 2011 |
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Ntupdate | 3 June 2011 |
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Adrian Mutu (; born 8 January 1979) is a Romanian footballer who plays as a striker for the italian club ACF Fiorentina, and the Romanian national team.
Club career
Argeş Piteşti
Mutu began his professional career with his home club
Argeş Piteşti. He made his debut on 15 March 1997 against
Oţelul Galaţi and went on to score 11 goals in 41 games before sealing a transfer to
Dinamo Bucureşti.
Dinamo Bucureşti
His strong performances for
Dinamo Bucureşti meant that Mutu did not spend long playing in the Romanian capital. He scored 22 goals in 33 games in total and played an important role in Dinamo's league and Romanian Cup success. However by the time that Dinamo lifted these trophies, Mutu had already left to play for
Internazionale.
Internazionale
Having joined
Inter midway through the season, Mutu made an immediate impact on his debut for the Italian side, in the
Coppa Italia scoring within nine minutes of his appearance against derby rivals
AC Milan to help Inter to a 3–2 victory. However, Mutu failed to replicate his form in
Serie A, playing only ten games for the Nerazzurri without scoring, partially due to 3+2 non-EU quota.
Verona
In 2000, Mutu was sold to
Verona in
co-ownership deal. The
Veneto side has also signed
Mauro Camoranesi (later team-mate at Juventus) and young rising star
Alberto Gilardino (later team-mate at Fiorentina) that season but almost relegated after winning the relegation tie-breaker playoffs. In June 2001, Verona bought Mutu outright, in although the quota system was abolished during the season.
Parma
In the 2002–03 season, Mutu was loaned to
Parma with the option to purchase him outright., followed Gilardino who arrived in June. At Parma, he met coach
Cesare Prandelli (also at
La Viola) and partnered
Adriano Leite Ribeiro to form a deadly striking duo. He also met
Sébastien Frey,
Marco Marchionni and
Alberto Gilardino who all later played for Fiorentina.
Chelsea
In August 2003,
Chelsea paid Parma €22.5m (around £15.8m) for Mutu's transfer as part of new owner
Roman Abramovich's spending spree, He started with four goals in three matches, including two in a 4–2 victory over London rivals
Tottenham Hotspur, but Mutu scored fewer goals as the season progressed.
In the 2004–05 season, Mutu had a difficult relationship with the club's new manager José Mourinho, with each accusing the other of lying about whether the player was injured for a World Cup qualifying match against the Czech Republic. In September 2004, he failed a drugs test for cocaine and was sacked on 29 October 2004. He also received a 7 month ban and a £20,000 fine from the Football Association. The ban ended on 18 May 2005.
Breach of contract saga
Chelsea started to seek compensation from Mutu in early 2005.
The Football Association Premier League Appeals Committee decided that the player had committed a breach of his contract without just cause Mutu started his first appeal to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) but the case was dismissed. It included €16,500,000 for unamortised portion of the transfer fee paid to
Parma, €307,340 for unamortised portion of the sign-on fee (received by Mutu), and €366,650 for unamortised portion of the fee to the Agent, but already not to take into account for the determination of the damages the amounts already paid by the Club to the Player (being the consideration for the services rendered) or the remaining value of the Employment Contract (valued for €10,858,500). Mutu have to pay within 30 days after informed the decision in August 2008. On 31 July 2009, the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed an appeal filed by Mutu regarding his fine,
Mutu may be banned from football by FIFA if he does not pay the compensation, although some lawyers have disputed this. Mutu started his third appeal, this time to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland in October 2009, but on 14 June 2010 this appeal was also dismissed with Mutu again being ordered to pay Chelsea €17m in damages. It was reported that Mutu will appeal to the European Court of Justice.
Juventus
Mutu signed a five-year contract with the
Italian club
Juventus on 12 January 2005, despite still being banned from football until 18 May. As Juventus had no available room to buy another non-EU player from abroad, the move also involved fellow Serie A club
Livorno, who signed the player and contemporaneously sold him to Juventus. He made his first appearance on 29 May 2005, coming on as a substitute in the 57th minute of the last match of the season which was a 4–2 win over
Cagliari. During the 2005–06 season, he scored seven goals in his 20 league match and 12 substitute appearances for Juventus. In the
UEFA Champions League he made three starts and five substitute appearances and scored against
Rapid Wien.
Fiorentina
On 8 July 2006,
Fiorentina announced that they had signed Mutu for €8 million from relegated Juventus which both clubs involved in the
2006 Italian football scandal. This reunited Mutu with his former manager at Parma,
Cesare Prandelli. Mutu formed a productive partnership with then Fiorentina striker
Luca Toni (now at
Juventus)—the pair scored 32 goals in the
2006–07 season. He was named the best player of the season by “Il Calcio”, due to his 16 goals and eight assists in 33 games.
In July 2008, A.S. Roma made a reported €18 to 20 million offer to sign him outright, But Mutu hinted that he may remain in Florence and eventually signed a new contact reported last to 2012. On 30 November 2008, at his 200th match in Serie A, Mutu was chosen to captain Fiorentina in the game against Roma. On 2 February 2009, he scored his 100th and 101st Serie A goals against Bologna. On 15 February 2009, Mutu scored his first hat-trick with Fiorentina. After going 3–0 down against Genoa, Mutu converted a penalty, a free kick, and scored again in the final second of extra time, bringing the final score to 3–3. Despite a difficult elbow injury, Mutu managed to finish the 2008–2009 season with 14 goals, along with Gilardino they were one of the top ten single season striker partnerships in Viola history with 33 goals between them.
On 29 January 2010, it was reported that Mutu failed a doping test after a Coppa Italia match against Lazio match nine days earlier, in which he scored twice in to help Fiorentina win 3–2. The INOC was requested to hand Mutu a one-year ban by the Italian anti-doping prosecutor. He eventually received a nine-month ban on 19 April, which was later reduced to six months and ended on 29 October. After the ban finished, Mutu was suspended by the club due to breach of contract (AWOL) on 7 January 2011. After such events, Mutu publicly apologised to the club and parted company with his agent Victor Becali; on 3 February 2011 Fiorentina announced the player was reinstated into the first team with immediate effect.
International career
As of 2011, Mutu has played for Romania 70 times, scoring 32 goals, 21 of which have come in qualifying games.
Romania has only lost once when Mutu has scored for them, which was in a 2004 European qualifying game against
Denmark. He was the
vice-captain of Romania. His performances (games, goals) with the
Romanian national team earned him the Romanian Footballer of the Year award.
Since 2009, Romania's national team coach Răzvan Lucescu has reservations about calling him up, because Mutu was exposed consuming alcohol after a match with Serbia in World Cup 2010 Qualifications. Because of poor results and fan pressure, Răzvan Lucescu was forced to call him up again. Mutu scored a brace in his first game back, a 3-1 victory over Luxembourg on March 29 2011, Romania's first win of the qualifiers.
He also scored once in the next game, a 3-0 victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 3 2011.
Euro 2008
Mutu scored Romania's only goal of
Euro 2008 in the 55th minute of their
second match against
Italy, however in the same match he had a second-half penalty saved by Italian goalkeeper
Gianluigi Buffon, which could have sent Italy out of the competition and would have guaranteed Romania a spot in the quarter finals. The game finished 1–1.
Career statistics
|-
|
1996–97||rowspan=3|
Argeş Piteşti||rowspan=3|
Divizia A||5||0||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||5||0
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1997–98||21||4||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||21||4
|-
|
1998–99||15||7||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||6||3||21||10
|-
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1998–99||rowspan=2|
Dinamo Bucureşti||rowspan=2|
Divizia A||15||4||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||15||4
|-
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1999–00||18||18||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||3||4||21||22
|-
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1999–00||
Internazionale||
Serie A||10||0||4||2||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||14||2
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2000–01||rowspan=2|
Verona||rowspan=2|
Serie A||25||4||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||25||4
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2001–02||32||12||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||32||12
|-
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2002–03||
Parma||
Serie A||31||18||1||0||colspan=2|-||4||4||36||22
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2003–04||rowspan=2|
Chelsea||rowspan=2|
Premier League||25||6||4||3||||||7||1||36||36
|-
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2004–05||2||0||colspan=2|-||||||colspan=2|-||2||0
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2004–05||rowspan=2|
Juventus||rowspan=2|
Serie A||1||0||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||1||0
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2005–06||32||7||3||1||colspan=2|-||8||1||43||9
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2006–07||rowspan=5|
Fiorentina||rowspan=5|
Serie A||33||16||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||33||16
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2007–08||29||17||1||0||colspan=2|-||8||6||38||23
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2008–09||19||13||1||0||colspan=2|-||9||2||29||15
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2009–10||10||4||2||4||colspan=2|-||6||3||21||11
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2010–11||19||4||||||||||||||19||4
74||33||colspan=2|-||colspan=2|-||9||7||83||40
230||93||10||3||colspan=2|-||35||16||274||110
27||6||4||3||||||7||1||38||10
331||132||14||6||||||51||24||395||160
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|2000||11||1
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|2001||6||0
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|2002||6||1
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|2003||10||7
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|2004||5||5
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|2005||5||5
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|2006||6||3
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|2007||9||6
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|2008||7||2
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|2009||2||0
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|2010||0||0
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|2011||3||3
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!Total||70||32
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International goals
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!Date
!Venue
!Opponent
!Score
!Result
!Competition
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|1.||26 April 2000||
Stadionul Gheorghe Hagi,
Constanţa,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|2–0||
Friendly
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|2.||17 April 2002||
Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium,
Bydgoszcz,
Poland||||align=center|
2–0||align=center|2–1||
Friendly
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|3.||29 March 2003||
Stadionul Lia Manoliu,
Bucharest,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|2–5||
UEFA Euro 2004 Qualifying
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|4.||7 June 2003||
Stadionul Ion Oblemenco,
Craiova,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|2–0||
UEFA Euro 2004 Qualifying
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|5.||20 August 2003||
Shakhtar Stadium,
Donetsk,
Ukraine||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|2–0||
Friendly
|-
|6.||20 August 2003||
Shakhtar Stadium,
Donetsk,
Ukraine||||align=center|
2–0||align=center|2–0||
Friendly
|-
|7.||6 September 2003||
Stadionul Astra,
Ploieşti,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|4–0||
UEFA Euro 2004 Qualifying
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|8.||10 September 2003||
Parken Stadium,
Copenhagen,
Denmark||||align=center|
1–1||align=center|2–2||
UEFA Euro 2004 Qualifying
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|9.||11 October 2003||
Stadionul Dinamo,
Bucharest,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|1–1||
Friendly
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|10.||18 February 2004||
Neo GSZ Stadium,
Larnaca,
Cyprus||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|3–0||
Friendly
|-
|11.||18 February 2004||
Neo GSZ Stadium,
Larnaca,
Cyprus||||align=center|
2–0||align=center|3–0||
Friendly
|-
|12.||18 August 2004||
Stadionul Giuleşti,
Bucharest,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|2–1||
FIFA World Cup 2006 Qualifying
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|13.||4 September 2004||
Stadionul Ion Oblemenco,
Craiova,
Romania||||align=center|
2–1||align=center|2–1||
FIFA World Cup 2006 Qualifying
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|14.||17 August 2005||
Stadionul Gheorghe Hagi,
Constanţa,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|2–0||
FIFA World Cup 2006 Qualifying
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|15.||17 August 2005||
Stadionul Gheorghe Hagi,
Constanţa,
Romania||||align=center|
2–0||align=center|2–0||
FIFA World Cup 2006 Qualifying
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|16.||3 September 2005||
Stadionul Gheorghe Hagi,
Constanţa,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|2–0||
FIFA World Cup 2006 Qualifying
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|17.||3 September 2005||
Stadionul Gheorghe Hagi,
Constanţa,
Romania||||align=center|
2–0||align=center|2–0||
FIFA World Cup 2006 Qualifying
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|18.||8 October 2005||
Helsinki Olympic Stadium,
Helsinki,
Finland||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|1–0||
FIFA World Cup 2006 Qualifying
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|19.||16 August 2006||
Stadionul Farul,
Constanţa,
Romania||||align=center|
2–0||align=center|2–0||
Friendly
|-
|20.||6 September 2006||
Qemal Stafa,
Tirana,
Albania||||align=center|
2–0||align=center|2–0||
UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying
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|21.||7 October 2006||
Stadionul Ghencea,
Bucharest,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|3–1||
UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying
|-
|22.||7 February 2007||
Stadionul Lia Manoliu,
Bucharest,
Romania||||align=center|
2–0||align=center|2–0||
Friendly
|-
|23.||28 March 2007||
Stadionul Ceahlăul,
Piatra Neamţ,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|3–0||
UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying
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|24.||6 June 2007||
Stadionul Dan Păltinişanu,
Timişoara,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|2–0||
UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying
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|25.||22 August 2007||
Stadionul Lia Manoliu,
Bucharest,
Romania||||align=center|
2–0||align=center|2–0||
Friendly
|-
|26.||8 September 2007||
Dinamo Stadium,
Minsk,
Belarus||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|3–1||
UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying
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|27.||8 September 2007||
Dinamo Stadium,
Minsk,
Belarus||||align=center|
3–1||align=center|3–1||
UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying
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|28.||31 May 2008||
Stadionul Ghencea,
Bucharest,
Romania||||align=center|
1–0||align=center|4–0||
Friendly
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|29.||13 June 2008||
Letzigrund,
Zürich,
Switzerland||
Italy||align=center|
1–0||align=center|1–1||
UEFA Euro 2008 Group C
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|30.||29 March 2011||
Stadionul Ceahlăul,
Piatra Neamţ,
Romania||
Luxembourg||align=center|
1–1||align=center|3–1||
UEFA Euro 2012 Qualifying
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|31.||29 March 2011||
Stadionul Ceahlăul,
Piatra Neamţ,
Romania||
Luxembourg||align=center|
2–1||align=center|3–1||
UEFA Euro 2012 Qualifying
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|32.||3 June 2011||
Giuleşti-Valentin Stănescu,
Bucharest,
Romania||
Bosnia and Herzegovina||align=center|
1–0||align=center|3–0||
UEFA Euro 2012 Qualifying
|}
Personal life
Mutu was born in
Călineşti,
Romania. In 2001, Mutu married Romanian TV presenter Alexandra Dinu, but they divorced two years later, with Alexandra being awarded custody of their son Mario.
He has since been married to Dominican model Consuelo Matos Gómez; the couple have two daughters together.
FIFA series
Since his failed drugs test in 2004, Mutu has been excluded from
FIFPro and his name is therefore not licensed for use in the series of
FIFA games. He can be accessed under the name
Andrei Murgu.
References
External links
Adrian Mutu Profile at ACF Fiorentina website
Adrian Mutu Profile and News at Goal.com
ESPN Profile
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