Athlete of the Week

athlete of the week Footballer Alexandru Mitriță

Romanian footballer Alexandru Mitriţă has scored the fastest goal in the history of  New York City Football Club, on Saturday, in a game of the North-American professional league, Major League Soccer. New York clinched a 4-0 win against Football Club Cincinnati. Mitrita put the New Yorkers into the lead 30 seconds into the game. The Romanian played 86 minutes and added a second in the game's 43rd minute. These are his first goals in the present season with 9 games played. For his performance on Saturday, Radio Romania International has designated Alexandru Mitrita athlete of the week.


His performance in the game against Cincinnati has been the fastest goal scored in Major League Soccer in the past year. On September 14th last year, Cincinnati's Allan Cruz scored against Montreal Impact 28 seconds after the kick-off. However, the fastest goal in the history of the American league was scored by Mike Grella on October 18th, 2015 for New York Red Bulls, in the eighth second of their match against Philadelphia Union.


          

Alexandru Mitriță was born in Craiova, on February 8th 1995 and made his debut at Gaz Metan Turnu Severin in 2011. In 2013 he signed up with Viitorul Constanța and after two years with the Italian side Pescara. In 2017 he came back to Romania on loan at Universitatea Craiova, which hired him after one year in exchange for 730 thousand euros and 15% out of a further transfer. A year later he joined New York City Football Club. According to newspapers, his transfer stood at over 9 million dollars. 


          

Alexandru Mitriță made his debut with Romania's football national side in a friendly against Israel in 2018. He scored twice for the national side in eleven games and won caps for other games. On October 8th, with coach Mirel Radoi at helm, Romania's national eleven will be up against Iceland in an away game counting towards the Euro 2020 play-off.  In the Nations League, the Romanians will be playing in Norway on 11th October and three days later they will be taking on Austria at home.

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