Romania has again failed to bring an eleven to this year\u2019s edition of the Champions League, Europe\u2019s main club competition. At individual level, only two Romanian footballers have made it to the aforementioned competition, they are, Dennis Man of PSV Eindhoven and R\u0103zvan Marin of AEK Athens. In the competition\u2019s leg last week, Man was a substitute in the match his champion side ended in a one-all draw against the Ukrainians from Shaktaar Donetsk. R\u0103zvan Marin played for the Greek champions in the match they won against the Austrian side, LASK Linz, one-nil. The Romanian became the hero of his side after scoring the game\u2019s single goal from a penalty shot. Marin was one of the most appreciated players of that leg and for his performance, Radio Romania International has designated him Athlete of the Week.<\/p>\n
R\u0103zvan Marin was born in Bucharest on May 23rd<\/sup> 1996. His father, Petre Marin played in Romania\u2019s first football league for famous sides, like Sportul Studentesc, FC Na\u021bional and Steaua Bucharest and won 9 caps for the Romanian national side. His son, Razvan took up football at the Bucharest club, Pro Luceaf\u0103rul. He continued at the Gheorghe Hagi Football Academy and made his debut in the championship at Viitorul Constan\u021ba for which he played from 2013 until 2017. Then he joined Belgian side Standard Li\u00e8ge and then the famous Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam, which lent him to Italian side Cagliari. Then he went to Empoli, and in July 2025, he became part of his present side AEK Athens. R\u0103zvan won his first cap for the Romanian national side in August 2016 for a match in the World Cup preliminaries against Montenegro. On October 8th<\/sup>, 2016 he was part of the Romanian lineup, which clinched a 5-0 win against Armenia, scoring one goal. He has played in 75 matches for the Romanian national eleven for which he scored 12 goals.<\/p>\n (bill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Romania has again failed to bring an eleven to this year\u2019s edition of the Champions League, Europe\u2019s main club competition. At individual level, only two Romanian footballers have made it to the aforementioned competition, they are, Dennis Man of PSV Eindhoven and R\u0103zvan Marin of AEK Athens. In the competition\u2019s leg last week, Man was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1059490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149357],"tags":[175136,196511,196510,41265],"coauthors":[113302],"class_list":["post-1059636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athlete-of-the-week","tag-aek-athens","tag-ajax-amsterdam-en","tag-psv-eindhoven","tag-razvan-marin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n