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Petrescu moved to Chelsea in 1995, in a £2.3m transfer from Sheffield Wednesday. He featured prominently for Chelsea for the next five years, and was a member of the teams which won the FA Cup in 1997 and the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup (both in 1998). After falling out with Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli after a defeat to Manchester United, Petrescu never played for the club again and wasn't even selected as a substitute for the 2000 FA Cup final against Aston Villa. He moved to Bradford City for £1m that July and then had a spell at Southampton. Petrescu returned to his native Bucharest for a last season as a football player, with FC National. His last match was the Romanian Cup final, on 31 May 2003. National lost 1-0 to Dinamo Bucharest, Petrescu being shamelessly booed by some of the Dinamo fans as he left the pitch at the end of ninety minutes, even if it was the last game of one of Romania's greatest footballers. This was because he used to play for Dinamo's greatest rivals, Steaua Bucharest. To this day he still considers the time spent at Chelsea as the best part of his playing career and is still loved by the fans, who consider him to be one of the best non-english footballers in the club's history. As a sign of affection and loyalty to the Stamford Bridge based club, he named his daughter Chelsea. GBP may be: short for Game Boy Player the ISO currency code for the British Pound Sterling. ... Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are a football club in the English Football League, based in Sheffield, UK. Sheffield Wednesday won the play-offs of Football League One on 29 May 2005 to win promotion to the Football League Championship. ... The FA Cup - this is the fourth trophy, in use since 1992, and identical in design to the third trophy introduced in 1911. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition. ... The Cup Winners Cup was a football club competition between the winners of the European domestic cup competitions. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Gianluca Vialli (born July 9, 1964 in Cremona) is an Italian football striker and manager. ... Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, based at Old Trafford Football Ground located just outside of the city boundaries of Manchester, Lancashire. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Aston Villa redirects here. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Look up July in Wiktionary, the free dictionary July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Southampton Football Club (originally St. ... FC National Bucuresti is a Romanian football club playing in Divizia A. Despite having long resided in the shadow of the three big Bucuresti teams (Steaua, Dinamo and Rapid), the club has recently achieved some good results, having thrice finished runners up in the league (in 1996, 97 and 2002... The Romanian Cup is a football competition, held annually except for 1944–47 and 1957 since 1934. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... FC Dinamo Bucuresti is a Romanian football club which plays in the capital, Bucharest. ... The interior of Stamford Bridge is decorated in Chelseas blue and white Stamford Bridge is a football stadium in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham that is home to Chelsea Football Club. ...

Petrescu registered 95 caps for the Romanian national team. He made his debut for the squad in 1989, and played and scored in the 1994 and 1998 World Cups. He also played at Euro '96. The 1994 Football World Cup held in the USA was won by Brazil who beat Italy 3-2 on penalty kicks after the game and extra time ended 0-0. ... The 1998 Football World Cup was held in France by the FIFA decision in July 1992. ... The 1996 European Football Championship (or simply Euro 96) was hosted by England. ...

Petrescu is currently pursuing a career as a coach. He resigned from Rapid Bucureşti in October 2004, after only six games and four months at the helm. On January 1, 2006 he became the manager of Polish champions Wisła Kraków, replacing the temporary coach Tomasz Kulawik. In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction and instruction of the on-field operations of an athletic team or of individual athletes. ... Fotbal Club Rapid BucureÅŸti is a football club of Bucharest, Romania. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WisÅ‚a Kraków is a Polish football club based in Krakow, Poland. ...