Florin Cheran

Florin Cheran (born 5 April 1947) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a defender.

Club career Cheran was born on 5 April 1947 in Bucharest, Romania, but spent his childhood in Râmnicu Vâlcea where he played junior-level football at local club Unirea. During that period he also practiced athletics and volleyball, being national champion at the child level long jump. In the first of these, under the guidance of Nicolae Dumitru and Ionescu, he contributed one goal scored in 29 matches. For the way he played in 1976, Cheran was placed fifth in the ranking for the Romanian Footballer of the Year award.

In 1980, Cheran went to play for Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea, the team from his childhood town, for two seasons. In the 1985–86 season he became Mircea Lucescu's assistant at Dinamo București. Cheran has a total of 326 Divizia A appearances in which he scored eight goals. He played five games in the Euro 1976 qualifiers and four in the 1978 World Cup qualifiers. He remained with the club for 15 years, assisting every head coach during that period. In 2000 he worked as Ion Moldovan's assistant at Romania's under 21 national team and afterwards he was the assistant of László Bölöni and Gheorghe Hagi at Romania's senior side.

Honours Player Dinamo București Divizia A: 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77 Individual Romanian Footballer of the Year (fifth place): 1976

Manager Dinamo Victoria București Divizia B: 1984–85