Full name Raul Andrei Rusescu Number 24 Role Footballer Spouse Roxana Rusescu (m. 2009) Siblings Radu Rusescu | Current team Osmanlispor Name Raul Rusescu Height 1.81 m Salary 450,000 EUR (2013) | |
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Date of birth (1988-07-09) 9 July 1988 (age 27) Place of birth Ramnicu Valcea, Romania Playing position Parents Aurel Rusescu, Liliana Rusescu Similar People Alexandru Chipciu, Iasmin Latovlevici, Cristian Tanase, Stephane Mbia, Carlos Bacca | ||
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Raul Andrei Rusescu (born 9 July 1988 in Ramnicu Valcea) is a Romanian footballer who plays for Turkish club Osmanlispor and the Romania national team as an attacking midfielder.
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CSM Ramnicu Valcea
At the age of 7 Rusescu was spotted by Cristi Bora at a trial and brought to Ramnicu Valcea. As a youth he tore open his calf when he fell out of a bus, and then subsequently broke his tibia falling down on ice. Here he was a group teammate with later Steaua Bucuresti colleague Mihai Costea. Although he went through the youth systems of CSM Ramnicu Valcea in 2005 the then coach of the team, Adrian Furnica, decided that the player doesn't have value and that he is not likely to grow.
Unirea Urziceni
In 2005 he was brought to Liga II side Unirea Urziceni under the command of Dan Petrescu. He had limited playing time in his first year with the team while they earned promotion to the Liga I.
His team now being in the first tier of Romanian football he was loaned to Dunarea Giurgiu. Although not 18 yet, he quickly became a starter and finished the season with 13 goals overall. For the 2007–08 season he was again loaned to Liga II team CS Otopeni. He helped the gain promotion to the Liga I by scoring four goals in 20 games.
In his first year in Liga I with Unirea Urziceni he helped his team win the 2008–09 league title, earning a place in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League. He finished the season with five goals scored from 23 games.
In the 2009–10 campaign Rusescu scored eight goals from a total of 29 appearances helping Unirea Urziceni to finish second in the league and gather eight points in the UEFA Champions League group stages.
After Dan Petrescu left, Rusescu was used as a winger and didn't perform as well as before.
Steaua Bucuresti
On 4 May 2011, Steaua's owner announced at a televised show that Raul Rusescu has signed with the Bucharest giants.
He made his Liga 1 debut on 31 July against CS Mioveni and scored his first goal for Steaua. In the next match, Rusescu scored his second goal for the club against FC Universitatea Cluj. Raul scored his first goal in a European competition for Steaua Bucuresti against FC Schalke 04 in the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. On the 5th of December, Raul Rusescu scored two sensational goals against Steaua's arch-rival, Dinamo, assuring his club a win in a match named by the two club's supporters the Eternal Derby and ending Steaua's seven-year winless streak on Dinamo's stadium. He has been deemed as a hero by the Steaua Bucuresti supporters and the press. In the next Europa League group stage match, Rusescu scored again for Steaua from a penalty kick, helping his club beat AEK Larnaca F.C. and qualifying for the round of 32. At the end of 2011, Rusescu was Steaua's most prolific goalscorer with 7 goals in the Romanian championship and 2 in the Europa League.
Although not the fastest or the strongest striker, Rusescu's defining traits are his positioning and off the ball movement, along with great sense of goal that good poachers possess, making him a player capable of both creating chances as well as taking them.
On 7 March 2013, he scored from the penalty spot against Chelsea at the National Arena, to put Steaua 1–0 up in the Europa League Round of 16. On 12 March, Rusescu scored a goal against Universitatea Cluj. He scored again, on March 18, against Astra Ploiesti in a game which finished 2–1, with teammate Paul Parvulescu scoring the winning goal. On 8 April, Rusescu scored the second goal from the 4–1 victory against Sportul Studentesc.
Sevilla
On 13 June 2013, Raul Rusescu completed a move to Sevilla from Steaua, signing a 5-year contract which includes a €40 million release clause. On 20 August 2015, Sevilla announced that Rusescu had terminated his contract with the club.
Loan to Braga
At the end of 2013, Rusescu was loaned at Portuguese Primeira Liga club, Sporting Braga, with an option to buy. He made his Braga debut on 6 January 2014, in a 2-0 win against Arouca in Portuguese Cup. On 10 January, he scored 2 goals for Braga in his debut in Primeira Liga in a 3-0 win against Guimaraes.
Loan to Steaua Bucuresti
On September 1, 2014, just a year after being sold by Steaua Bucharest in Sevilla, Raul Rusescu returns to being borrowed for one year.
International career
Rusescu is an ex-Romania U-21 international, earning 7 caps and scoring 2 goals. He played in the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, losing in the play-offs against England U-21.