Sebastián Dubarbier

Gimnasia and Olimpo

Dubarbier was born on 19 February 1986 in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. He began playing football at local club Gimnasia where he made his Argentine Primera División debut on 13 May 2006 when coach Pedro Troglio sent him to replace Diego Herner in the 74th minute of a 2–0 home loss to Banfield. In the same year he made one appearance in the Copa Sudamericana in which he received a red card in the home loss to Colo-Colo. In the following year he played three games in the Copa Libertadores group stage. He went to play for the second half of 2007 on loan at Olimpo.

CFR Cluj

In January 2008, Dubarbier was transferred by CFR Cluj for €775,000 from Gimnasia, and was presented at a press conference alongside fellow Argentinian Diego Ruiz. He made his Liga I debut on 23 February when coach Ioan Andone sent him in the 74th minute to replace André Leão in a 4–1 win over Universitatea Craiova. He scored his first goal in the league on 7 March in a 2–0 victory against Gloria Buzău, afterwards scoring in another two wins over UTA Arad and Gloria Bistrița. Dubarbier ended his first season with CFR by winning The Double, which constituted the club's first trophies, contributing with three goals in 15 league matches. However, in the 2–1 victory against Unirea Urziceni in the Cupa României final, coach Andone left him on the bench. In the first round of the following season, Dubarbier scored a goal in the 4–0 success over Otopeni.…

Dubarbier holds Italian nationality. Both of his parents were athletes, as his mother practiced long jump, while his father was nine times champion of Argentina at 100 and 200 metres sprint, for a while holding the country's record for 100 metres with 10.4 seconds. Dubarbier himself was a player known for his speed, being known to run the 100 meters in 11 seconds, and for this performance he earned the nickname "Ghepardul" (The Cheetah) while he was playing in Romania. In October 2008, while the 22-year-old Dubarbier was in Romania at CFR, he married Maria Minones in Cluj-Napoca in the same day as teammate and compatriot Cristian Sánchez Prette, with the city's mayor Emil Boc officiating the ceremony. Dubarbier claims he met Maria when they were both 14 years old in his native town of La Plata while he was wearing a Romania's national team t-shirt with Gheorghe Hagi's name on it. After ending his playing career, Dubarbier began singing rock music under the stage name "Seba Dubar".

CFR Cluj

Liga I: 2007–08, 2009–10 Cupa României: 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 Supercupa României: 2009 Individual

Gazeta Sporturilor Foreign Player of the Year: 2008