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Key facts
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- Parma
- Full name
- Cristian Eugen Chivu
- Date of birth
- ( 1980-10-26 ) 26 October 1980 (age 45)
- Place of birth
- Reșița , Romania
- Height
- 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Positions
- Left-back centre-back
- Current team
- Inter Milan (head coach)
- 1991 1997
- CSM Reșița
- Years
- Team
- 1997 1998
- CSM Reșița
- 1998 1999
- Universitatea Craiova
- 1999 2003
- Ajax
- 2003 2007
- Roma
- 2007 2014
- Inter Milan
- 1998 2000
- Romania U21
- 1999 2010
- Romania
- 2018 2019
- Inter Milan U14
- 2019 2020
- Inter Milan U17
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Romania
- Place of birth
- Reșița
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- Romanian
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2008
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Romania men's national association football team
- Position played
- defensive midfielder
- Country for sport
- Romania
- Mass
- 81
- Official website
- www.cristianchivu.ro
- Image
- Chivu2018.jpg
- Height
- 184
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- Cristian Chivu
- date of birth
- 1980-10-26
- start of work period
- 1996-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 2
- coach of sports team
- Inter Milan
- total goals in career
- 0
- birth name
- Cristian Eugen Chivu
- name in native language
- Cristian Chivu
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Encyclopedic overview
Cristian Eugen Chivu ( Romanian pronunciation: [kristiˈan e.uˈdʒen ˈkivu]; born 26 October 1980) is a Romanian professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Serie A club Inter Milan.
A defender, he began his career with hometown club CSM Reșița before moving to Universitatea Craiova in 1998, leaving Romania to join Dutch club Ajax a season later. His performances as the captain of Ajax inspired an €18 million transfer to Roma in 2003. Chivu won the Coppa Italia in his last of four seasons in Rome before a transfer to Inter Milan, where he spent the rest of his career before retiring in 2014. After recovering from a fractured skull, Chivu wore a distinctive protective headgear from 2010 onwards. His honours at Inter included a treble of the Italian league, domestic cup, and the UEFA Champions League in 2010.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cristian Chivu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.