Full name Cosmina Anisoara Dusa Playing position Years Team Role Footballer | Number 18 Name Cosmina Dusa Height 1.83 m Position Forward | |
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Date of birth (1990-03-04) 4 March 1990 (age 25) | ||
Cosmina Anișoara Dușa (born 4 March 1990 in Iernut) is a Romanian footballer. She plays as a forward for Konak Belediyespor in Turkey and the Romanian national team. As a player she won the national championship, the national cup and was top-scorer of the league.
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Dușa started playing football in primary school with her brother's friends. At the age of 17, she was accepted by the Romanian women's football club champions, CFF Clujana Cluj. She made her official debut in a 2007–08 UEFA Women's Cup match against Umeå IK; scoring five goals in the three group matches. She later played for AS Volos 2004 from Greece and was called up for the Romania national team. In 2010 she returned to Cluj-Napoca and followed her first trainer, Mirel Albon, to the newly founded team CFF Olimpia Cluj. In the club's very first season Dușa scored 103 goals in the club's 24 matches, making her the Liga I top scorer. She repeated that feat by winning the 2012 top-scorer award with 71 goals. In the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying she scored five goals in three matches.
She was awarded for "Best Women's Footballer" in Romania from 2010 to 2012.
By the end of September 2012, she transferred to the İzmir-base club Konak Belediyespor in Turkey.
International
Dușa made her debut in the Romanian national team in March 2009 against Belgium. She featured for Romania in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification tournament.