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Dan Neicu

Romanian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ135274940 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dan Emilian Neicu (born 16 September 2002) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga I club Oțelul Galați.

Career

Dan Neicu began his footballing journey at the age of nine at the academy of Romanian football legend Gheorghe Hagi. He left for Germany at the age of 14, where he played for Stuttgarter Kickers, Waldhof Mannheim and SGV Freiberg during his youth career.

In 2021, he signed his first professional contract with Mauerwerk.

In July 2025, he moved to Liga I club Oțelul Galați, signing a two-year contract.

Dan Neicu is the older brother of Cristian Neicu, who is also a footballer and plays for Otelul Galaţi.

Editorial summary

“Dan Neicu” enters the record as romanian footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Neicu, Romanian and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2021, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-09-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Neicu, Romanian and footballer.
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Why this record matters

“Dan Neicu” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Neicu, Romanian and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q135274940. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2021 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dan Neicu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.