Sorin Ghionea

Oțelul Galați

At the age of 12, Ghionea was sent to Oțelul Galați football club by his teacher, Tică Ploieșteanu. The second day he was hand-picked by the coach and played there for 2 years. After that he studied hard at school and left football until the 10th grade when he went back to the youth team of Oțelul Galați. At first he played as a full left back, but then he moved into the center of defense.

Dunărea Galați

Ghionea made his debut as a player for Dunărea Galaţi during the 1997–98 season and helped his team avoid relegation in Liga III. Just one year later, he joined Oțelul Galați. He debuted in Divizia A on 7 August 1998 in the win against FC Național. He played for Oțelul between 1998 and 2003 62 matches and scoring two goals. He also was loaned by Steaua to Oțelul Galați in the 2004–05 season in Liga I.

Steaua București

In 2002, Ghionea moved to Steaua București for free transfer, but he did not convince Victor Piturca, Steaua's manager at that time, playing only in 6 matches and then being loaned back to Oțelul Galați. He played as a captain for Oțelul on his loaned season in most of the matches and he had excellent performances. In 2004, the ex-president of Oțelul Galați, now manager of Steaua București, Mihai Stoica, took him back to the team from Bucharest. When he returned to Steaua, Victor Piţurcă left to coach the Romania national football team and Walter Zenga became Steaua's new manager. In September 2004, Ghionea went through…

Ghionea made his international debut for Romania on 27 March 2002 in a friendly against Ukraine, and his international career got off to a winning start with a 4–1 victory for Romania. Since then Ghionea has won nine further caps for Romania. He was sent off in Romania's second 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match against the Faroe Islands in which Romania won 1–0.

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ghionea goal.

Oțelul Galați

Cupa României runner-up: 2003–04 Steaua București

Divizia A: 2004–05, 2005–06 Supercupa României: 2006