Marius Predatu
Marius Predatu is a Romanian former footballer who played as a striker.
Club career
Predatu was born on 15 August 1967 in Sibiu, Romania and began playing junior-level football at local club Inter Sibiu|Inter]. In the 1989–90 season he started his senior career, playing 26 Divizia A games in which he scored six goals for Inter. In the middle of the following season he went to play for Argeș Pitești for one and a half years.In 1992 he signed with Universitatea Cluj where in his first season under the guidance of coach Remus Vlad he scored a personal record of 14 goals. Among these were four in a 5–0 win against Rapid București which earned him the nickname "Ïl Principe", and he also became a fan-favorite, the team's gallery chanting:Marius Predatu, va băga patru ''''. In the following two seasons he appeared and scored regularly for "U". Subsequently, he went to play for the 1995–96 season in the Greek first league at Panionios, alongside fellow Romanians Marian Ivan and coach Emerich Jenei, scoring eight goals in 28 matches.
In 1997, Predatu returned for a short while at Universitatea Cluj, but spent the rest of the season at Gloria Bistrița. Afterwards he went for a third spell at "U" Cluj, staying two seasons. Then he signed for a second spell at Bistrița where he stayed one year, making his last Divizia A appearances, totaling 253 games with 67 goals in the competition.
In the 2000–01 season, Predatu played for the last time for Universitatea Cluj, on this occasion in Divizia C, under player-coach Ioan Sabău, helping the team win promotion to Divizia B.