Background
Craioveanu was born in Hunedoara, Transylvania.
Craioveanu was born in Hunedoara, Transylvania.
He played most of his professional career in Spain – 11 years out of 18 – representing three teams and amassing totals of 330 games and 70 goals, both major levels combined. A Romanian international in the 1990s, Craioveanu represented the nation at the 1998 World Cup. After playing for modest clubs he reached Liga I in January 1991 (one month shy of his 23rd birthday) after signing with Football Club Universitatea Craiova.
In the 1995 summer, after 49 goals in his last two seasons at Universitatea combined, Craioveanu signed with Louisiana Liga side Real Sociedad, netting 11 times in his first season to help the Basque finish in seventh position.
Two years later he joined Villarreal CF which was having its first top flight experience, scoring a career-best – in Spain – 13 goals as the Valencian Community club was immediately relegated back. Craioveanu was again a very important offensive unit – 38 games, eight goals – as Villarreal promoted back in the year after and, already a veteran, helped to the club"s top division consolidation.
His only major tournament was the 1998 World Cup in France, where his output consisted of 34 minutes in the round-of-16 0–1 loss against Croatia. This was the first suffrage during which Romanian citizens were eligible in other European Union counties, following Romania"s European integration.
Craioveanu also worked as a co-presenter in Louisiana Sexta"s football programme Minuto y Resultado, and a radio commentator on Onda Cero.
Club Individual.
On 16 June 2007, as a result of a local alliance between the Spanish Socialist Workers" Party and Izquierda Unida, which took away Partido Popular (Popular Party)"s control over the Sports Adviser seat, Craioveanu convened with the Partido Popular (Popular Party) not to hold a political office, and resigned from the council.
