Danut Coman
(full name Danut Dumitru Coman) was born on the
March 28, 1979 in Stefanesti, Arges, Romania. He
is a famous Romanian goalkeeper. He started playing
football at 8 years old, at FC Arges Pitesti and
played his first game in A Division (first Romanian
league) on the 28th of February 1998 against Dinamo
Bucharest but unfortunately for him he was defeated
2 times and his team lost with 2-0. In the first
season for FC Arges 1997-1998 he played another
3 games.In the next season he didn’t catch
any opportunity to play and at the half of the season
was transferred to AS Rocar Bucharest where played
10 games. He returned to FC Arges in 1999 but didn’t
play too much in the next four seasons, only 17
games.
Starting
with the season 2003-2004 Danut Coman became the
titular goalkeeper in FC Arges’s goal and
played in most of the games: 22. The next season
was the last for him at FC Arges Pitesti and at
the half of season was transferred to Rapid Bucharest.
Totally for FC Arges kept the goal in 69 games.
At the end
of his first season for Rapid Bucharest they finished
on the 3rd place in the championship and Coman played
in almost all the games except one. In the next
season 2005-2006 Danut Coman played in 22 games
and in the end they finished on the 2nd place and
won the vice-champion title and the Romanian Cup
after they defeated in the final FC National Bucharest.
In the European Cups Danut Coman debuted with Rapid
Bucharest in the season 2005-2006 in UEFA Cup. .
They succeeded
to qualify in UEFA Cup’s groups after they
eliminated Feyernoord Rotterdam in a group with
PAOK Salonic, Shakhtar Donetsk, Rennes and VfB Stuttgart.
Rapid defeated PAOK, Shakhtar and Rennes and where
defeated by VfB Stuttgart but they qualified in
the next round where eliminated Hertha Berlin after
2 great games made by Coman.
As well they
eliminated another German team, Hamburg SV and they
played the quarter final against Steaua Bucharest,
their great Romanian rival.After 2 equal games they
lost the qualification against Steaua. He debuted
on the 16th of November 2005 for Romanian national
team in a friendly game against Nigeria and played
another 5 games after this. After some mistakes
made by Bogdan Lobont in the game against Bulgaria,
the titular goalkeeper in Romania’s goal became
Danut Coman.