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Marius Corbu

Romanian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ104550029
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Marius Dumitru Corbu (born 7 May 2002) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a winger for Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Ferencváros. Corbu began his senior career with Csíkszereda in 2019, before transferring to Hungarian club Puskás Akadémia the following year. In 2024, he signed for Cypriot side APOEL as a free agent.

At international level, Corbu represented Romania under-21 at the 2023 and 2025 UEFA European Championships. He returned to Hungary in January 2026 to join Ferencváros, where he won the Magyar Kupa later that season.

Club career

Early career / Csíkszereda

Corbu was born in Cădărești (Magyarcsügés), Bacău County, which he described as a "small, hidden village, with few inhabitants". He attended primary school there and, having limited access to electronic devices, spent much of his free time playing football, sometimes against adults. He also worked daily on his parents' farm and, less regularly, at his grandfather's pub. Growing up, he was an admirer of Lionel Messi.

At the age of eleven, Corbu was taken by his father to Miercurea Ciuc, where he joined Csíkszereda's youth academy.

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“Marius Corbu” enters the record as romanian association football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marius, Corbu and Romanian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Marius Corbu” 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.