Petru Țurcaș (born 16 May 1976, in Timișoara) is a retired Romanian footballer.
Club career Țurcaș was born on 16 May 1976 in Timișoara, Romania and began playing junior-level football at local club Politehnica. On 6 April 1994 he made his Divizia A debut when coach Emerich Dembrovschi sent him at halftime to replace Ioan Almășan in Politehnica's 6–3 away loss to Oțelul Galați. The team was relegated to Divizia B at the end of his first season. Subsequently, he went for the first half of the 1994–95 Divizia B season at CFR Timișoara, and then returned to Politehnica which he helped gain promotion back to the first division. The White-Purples were relegated once again at the end of the 1996–97 season. He joined Gloria Bistrița where he stayed about three years, playing rarely. In 2002, Țurcaș switched teams again, going at second league side Unirea Alba Iulia, which he helped earn promotion to the first league at the end of the 2002–03 season.
In the middle of the 2004–05 season, Țurcaș left Alba Iulia to join CFR Cluj. Under coach Dorinel Munteanu, he played nine games in the 2005 Intertoto Cup campaign as CFR got past Vėtra, Athletic Bilbao, Saint-Étienne and Žalgiris, reaching the final where they were defeated 4–2 on aggregate by Lens. In 2008 he returned to Gloria Bistrița where on 22 May 2010 he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 2–1 away loss to Rapid București, totaling 70 matches in the competition. Țurcaș ended his career in 2013 after spending the last years of his career at ACS Recaș and Millenium Giarmata in the third league.
International career Țurcaș played for Romania's under-16 national team in the 1992 European Under-16 Championship under the guidance of coach Marcel Pigulea.
Between 1993 and 1996 he made several appearances for Romania's under-18, under-21 and under-23 squads.
Honours Politehnica Timișoara Divizia B: 1994–95 Unirea Alba Iulia Divizia B: 2002–03 CFR Cluj Intertoto Cup runner-up: 2005
References
External links
Petru Țurcaș at Labtof.ro