Emilian Dolha
Romanian footballer
Emilian Ioan Dolha (born 3 November 1979) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, currently goalkeeping coach at Liga II club Concordia Chiajna.
Dolha started his career with Gloria Bistrița, before representing other teams in his native Romania, such as Olimpia Satu Mare, Rapid București, Dinamo București and Universitatea Cluj. He spent two years in Poland, playing for Wisła Kraków and Lech Poznań, and had a one-year spell in Russia with Fakel Voronezh. He was known as a goalkeeper good at saving penalties.
Club career
Dolha was born on 3 November 1979 in Turda, Romania and began playing junior-level football at Gloria Bistrița. He made his Divizia A debut on 14 September 1997 under coach Constantin Cârstea in Gloria's 2–0 away loss to Argeș Pitești. He went to Divizia B side, Olimpia Satu Mare, for the 1999–2000 season. Afterwards, Dolha returned to first league football, signing with Rapid București. His first trophy won with The Railwaymen was the 2001–02 Cupa României, but coach Mircea Rednic preferred to use Bogdan Stelea in the 2–1 victory against Dinamo București in the final. In the following season, Rednic selected him as first-choice goalkeeper, the team starting the season by winning the 2002 Supercupa României with a 2–1 win over Dinamo.
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