Andrei Prepeliță
Andrei Prepeliță (born 8 December 1985) is a Romanian former professional footballer and current manager who played mainly as a defensive midfielder. Club career. Andrei Prepeliță was born on 8 December 1985 in Slatina and started playing organized football under the guidance of his father, Constantin at CȘS Slobozia. He completed his junior years at Argeș Pitești, being brought there by Viorel Moiceanu, making his debut for the first team when coach Ion Moldovan sent him on the field on 7 May 2003 in a Liga I match which ended with a 1–0 loss against Gloria Bistrița. After  playing 112 Liga I matches in which he scored 11 goals, Prepeliță was transferred by Argeș Pitești together with teammate Ciprian Tănasă to Universitatea Craiova for 1.5 million €. After 7 goals scored in 120 Liga I matches played for Universitatea Craiova over the course of four seasons, on 2 August 2011, Prepeliță signed a four-year contract with Steaua București. During his period of four seasons spent at Steaua București, Prepeliță won three titles, one cup, one league cup and one supercup. On 1 July 2015, he signed a two-year contract with Ludogorets Razgrad in Bulgaria, where he  played alongside fellow Romanians Cosmin Moți and Claudiu Keșerü, winning the Bulgarian league title. He joined Russian Premier League club Rostov on 31 August 2016 where he spent one season in which he scored one goal in 25 games played in all competitions. He returned to Romania in February 2018, signing a contract with Concordia Chiajna, where he reunited with the coach that gave him his senior debut, Ion Moldovan. On 6 September 2019, Prepeliță rejoined Argeș Pitești, which was playing in Liga II, helping the team gain promotion to Liga I where he played in the first part of  the 2020–21 season, after which he retired. Andrei Prepeliță has a total of 327 Liga I matches played in which he scored 29 goals and a total of 40 appearances in European competitions with one goal scored. International career. Andrei Prepeliță played 14 games for Romania, making his debut under coach Victor Pițurcă, when he came as a substitute and replaced Ovidiu Hoban in the 84th minute of a Euro 2016 qualification match which ended with a 1–0 away victory against Greece. Prepeliță played a total of five games at the Euro 2016 qualifiers, being selected by coach Anghel Iordănescu  to be part Romania's squad at the Euro 2016 final tournament in which he made his last appearance for the national team in a 1–1 against Switzerland. Personal life. His father, Constantin was also a footballer who appeared in 200 Liga I games and scored 32 goals for Olt Scornicești. Andrei was coached by his father while he was a junior player at CȘS Slobozia. Career statistics. Managerial statistics. <ref>