26 Facts About Adrian Mutu

Adrian Mutu is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is in charge of Liga I club Rapid Bucuresti.

Adrian Mutu then had a season at Cesena and French club Ajaccio, before returning to his native country with Petrolul Ploiesti in 2014.

Adrian Mutu has unsuccessfully tried to appeal the fine numerous times, and was banned for a second time in 2010 following a positive test for sibutramine while at Fiorentina.

From his international debut in 2000, Adrian Mutu played 77 matches for the Romania national team and scored 35 goals, a joint record alongside Gheorghe Hagi.

Adrian Mutu was included in the country's squads at the European Championship in 2000 and 2008.

Adrian Mutu began his professional career with Arges Pitesti and Dinamo Bucuresti.

In 2000, Adrian Mutu was sold by Inter to Verona in co-ownership deal, for 7,500 million lire.

In September 2004, Adrian Mutu was banned from football for 7 months until May 2005 after testing positive for cocaine use.

Adrian Mutu started his first appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in April 2005 but the case was dismissed in December 2005.

In particular, the club requested that the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber award compensation to the club following Adrian Mutu's breaching the employment contract without just cause.

Adrian Mutu had to pay within 30 days after being informed of the decision in August 2008.

Adrian Mutu could have been banned from football by FIFA if he did not pay the fine although some lawyers disputed this.

On 21 January 2015 the Court of Arbitration for Sport annulled the FIFA DRC ruling; Adrian Mutu remained the sole party to pay the compensation.

Adrian 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 involved fellow Serie A club Livorno, who signed the player and contemporaneously sold him to Juventus.

Adrian Mutu said that he favoured the Italian culture on Corsica, dismissed claims that he was preparing for retirement, and stated that he would score more goals than Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Paris Saint-Germain.

Club president Alain Orsoni said that Adrian Mutu was the highest-profile player to come to Corsica since Johnny Rep joined SC Bastia in 1978.

Adrian Mutu was signed by his former international teammate, Cosmin Contra.

On 30 July 2015, Adrian Mutu signed as the marquee player for Indian Super League club FC Pune City.

In January 2016, Adrian Mutu returned to Romania with ASA 2013 Targu Mures, having been assured by national manager Anghel Iordanescu that he could have a place in the UEFA Euro 2016 squad if he played in a better league than India's.

Adrian Mutu played in three of four matches at the UEFA Euro 2000, where Romania reached the quarterfinals for the first time.

Adrian 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.

Since 2009, Romania's national team coach Razvan Lucescu has had reservations about calling him up, because Adrian Mutu was revealed to be consuming alcohol after a match with Serbia in World Cup 2010 Qualifications.

On 21 November 2013, Adrian Mutu was barred from playing on the national team after he posted an image of manager Victor Piturca as Mr Bean on Facebook.

Adrian Mutu began his managerial career in April 2018 when he was appointed as manager of Romanian Liga I club Voluntari, signing a two-year contract following the departure of former manager Claudiu Niculescu.

In July 2018, Adrian Mutu was signed by United Arab Emirates club Al Wahda to be the manager of their reserve team.

Adrian Mutu was in a relationship with Israeli model and actress Moran Atias during the early 2000s.