Dacian à Âerban Varga (born 15 October 1984) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a winger.
Varga began his football career at the age of 8, when his father took him at an indoor-football club based in Deva, a neighbour city of PetroÃÂani. He played for this club until 1996, when he moved at Dinamo Bucharest's youngsters.
At the age of 12, Varga moved to Dinamo's youngsters. He was trained by two former glories, Gheorghe Mihali and Iulian MihÃÂescu. He became national champion with his teammates before moving to another football club based in Bucharest, Sportul StudenÃÂesc.
Varga arrived at Sportul StudenÃÂesc when he was 17. Before playing for the senior team, he played until 2003 at Sportul StudenÃÂesc youngsters, a well-known Youth Academy in Bucharest and in Romania. When he arrived at Sportul, he had a controversy with his coach, Cornel JurcÃÂ, in his first match for Sportul's second team, and he was relegated to the Youth Team. The Youth Team coach, Cristian Sava, helped Varga very much, and in 2004, Varga was ready for playing in the Romanian top division, then called Divizia A.
His first season at Sportul StudenÃÂesc found his team playing in Divizia B. After a good season, the team promoted again in Divizia A. His first match in Divizia A was against Dinamo BucureÃÂti, his former club. After playing only eight matches in the first Divizia A season, he became again a first-team player for Sportul in the 2005âÂÂ06 season. He scored his first Divizia A goal in a match against Jiul PetroÃÂani. The second goal came in a match against Politehnica TimiÃÂoara, in 2006. He scored another goal in a thrilling 5âÂÂ4 victory for Sportul StudenÃÂesc against Dinamo Bucharest, beating Dinamo goalkeeper Cristian Munteanu in the last minute. After Sportul StudenÃÂesc relegated in the second division, Varga became the star-player of the team, after a lot of first-team players, like Ionuà £ Mazilu, Stelian Stancu, Costin LazÃÂr or Eduard StÃÂncioiu left the team. In 2013, after a litigation with Sportul, when unsuccessfully trying to left the team, Varga was declared free agent by Romanian Football Federation, after 10 years spent here.
In January 2009, Varga was loaned to Unirea Urziceni, thus ending a two-year absence from Liga I. He scored four goals, including a winning strike against title contenders Dinamo, as the team surprisingly finished on top of the table.
During the summer of 2009, Varga was in talks with a number of teams, but ultimately returned to the IalomiÃÂa-based team for a one-year loan. Varga made his debut in European competitions in a UEFA Champions League clash against Sevilla FC on 16 September and scored in a 1âÂÂ1 draw with VfB Stuttgart two weeks later. It was the first goal ever scored in a European competition by Unirea Urziceni.
On 18 December 2013, Varga joined Liga II club CS Universitatea Craiova on a free transfer. He was released in March 2015
In June 2015, Varga signed a contract with ASA Târgu Mureàwhere he reunited with coach Dan Petrescu. He played in the first squad in Romanian Supercup, on 8 July, against Steaua BucureÃÂti, but after the game Petrescu left the club and five days later Varga ended his contract with ASA on mutual agreement.
Dacian Varga is a former member of Romania national under-21 football team. He made his debut for Romania U21 team in a match against Turkey U-21 football team, in February 2006. Romania lost the match, and Varga played 60 minutes. The second, and also the last match played by Varga for Romania U-21 football team, was against Switzerland U-21 football team, a 3âÂÂ3 draw.
In February 2009, Dacian made his debut for Romania national football team in a friendly match against Croatia. He came off the bench in the second half as a substitute. He is only the second player in Romania's history to be capped while playing for a second league club.
He is the son of Ioan Varga, a former player of Dinamo BucureÃÂti and Jiul PetroÃÂani.
Sportul StudenÃÂesc
Unirea Urziceni
Universitatea Craiova
ASA Târgu MureÃÂ