Alin Stoica

Stoica joined the Steaua București youth team at the age of six and made his professional debut for Steaua in 1995 at the age of 16. He spent one season at the Romanian champions before moving to the most successful club in Belgium Anderlecht for a transfer fee of €1.2 million in 1996. He quickly became a fan favorite, being nicknamed "Le Petit Prince du Parc Astrid", and helped the Club to win five titles from 1999 to 2001. In the 2000–01 season he scored four goals, against Real Madrid, Lazio, Leeds United and Dynamo Kyiv, becoming the only Romanian player to achieve this feat in one Champions League season. With 44 games and 13 goals in the 2000–01 season he won the Young Football of the Year award. In his last year of contract, after he was on the transfer list of several big European Clubs, his negotiations with chairman Roger Vanden Stock for a new contract with a huge salary raise did not conclude and Stoica left Anderlecht to sign with league rivals Club Brugge, just before the beginning of the 2002–03 campaign. With 19 matches and five goals he helped Brugge clinch the league title in his debut season. After two seasons and four trophies he left the Club and signed with Serie A's Siena before joining Romanian club FC Naţional București. In the winter of 2006, Stoica moved to Politehnica Timişoara, at the request of Gheorghe Hagi, the team's manager. After a good debut, he decided to part ways with "Poli Timisoara" and returned to Belgium in the following summer,…

Stoica's debut for the Romania national team came on 18 March 1998, in a friendly with Israel.

Stoica's father, Tudorel, was also a footballer and a midfielder. He is the most capped player in the history of Steaua Bucharest, helping them to win the 1986 European Cup and UEFA Super Cup 1986. After retiring from football, Stoica served as scout for Anderlecht, and subsequently settled in Belgium.

Steaua București

Divizia A: 1995–96 Romanian Cup: 1995–96 Anderlecht

Belgian League: 1999–00, 2000–01 Belgian League Cup: 2000–01 Belgian Supercup: 2000, 2001 Club Brugge

Belgian League: 2002–03 Belgian League Cup: 2003–04 Belgian Supercup: 2003, 2004 Individual

Belgian League Young Football of the Year: 2001