George Curcă

George Curcă (born 8 May 1981) is a Romanian former professional football player who played as a goalkeeper.

Club career Curcă was born on 8 May 1981 in Isaccea, Romania and began playing football at local club Progresul. He started his senior career at Farul Constanța, helping it get promoted to the first league at the end of the 2000–01 Divizia B season under the guidance of coach Petre Grigoraș. He made his Divizia A debut on 18 August 2001 in a 3–1 home loss to Rapid București. Afterwards he made five appearances in the 2006 Intertoto Cup, helping the club eliminate Pobeda and Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the first two rounds, being eliminated in the third by Auxerre. At the end of the 2008–09 season, Farul was relegated but he continued to play in the first league, being loaned for the following season to Dinamo.

Afterwards, Curcă was permanently transferred by Dinamo and played four games in the 2010–11 Europa League qualifying phase, managing to get past Olimpia Bălți, being eliminated in the following round by Hajduk Split. At Urziceni, he also made his last appearance in the Romanian first league on 21 May 2011 in a 5–1 away loss to Sportul Studențesc București, totaling 221 matches in the competition. Half a year later, Curcă became Farul's player, spending two more seasons with The Sailors. He played two games in which he did not concede any goals for Romania B in the 2004 Cyprus International Football Tournament, as they got past Belarus in the semi-finals and defeated rivals Hungary 3–0 in the final.

Personal life His cousin, Cristian Munteanu, was also a goalkeeper and they were colleagues in 2010 at Dinamo București.

Honours Farul Constanța Cupa României runner-up: 2004–05