Florentin Petre (born 15 January 1976) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player. Club career Born in Bucharest, Petre started playing football at the youth center of Dinamo București, playing his first Divizia A match for the senior squad on 15 October 1994 in a 2–0 victory over Universitatea Cluj in which he opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. He was loaned to UTA Arad in the second half of that season, playing 8 Divizia A matches in which he scored one goal. He helped Dinamo win The Double, scoring 7 goals in 22 matches in the 1999–2000 Divizia A. In 2000 Petre contracted hepatitis C and had an accident while fishing in the Danube Delta when he touched an electricity wire with his fishing rod and almost lost his life, these events put him on the sideline for almost two seasons, but he sill managed to bring his contribution to the winning of the 2001–02 title by scoring one goal in 10 appearances. He helped Dinamo win The Double again, playing 24 games and scoring 4 goals in the 2003–04 Divizia A season. Petre spent a total of 12 seasons at Dinamo in which he scored 43 goals in 259 Divizia A appearances, winning three titles, five cups and one supercup, also playing 32 games and scoring 6 goals in European competitions (including 3 appearances in the Intertoto Cup). Petre left Dinamo in July 2006 and signed a three-year contract with Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia. In his first season spent in Bulgaria, Petre played alongside fellow Romanians Eugen Trică and Alexandru Pițurcă, managing to win the 2006 Bulgarian Supercup and finish runner-up in the championship. In the following season he played 24 games and scored 11 goals, helping CSKA win the 31st title in the club's history. In 2008, Petre went to play alongside fellow Romanians Daniel Pancu and Andrei Mărgăritescu in the Russian Premier League for Terek Grozny. In January 2010, Petre returned at CSKA Sofia for a half of year, alongside fellow Romanians Daniel Pancu and coach Ioan Andone. In both periods spent at CSKA, Petre scored a total of 22 goals in 58 Bulgarian league matches, also appearing in 8 matches in which he scored one goal in European competitions. Petre ended his career in 2011 at Victoria Brănești, his last game being a 2–0 victory against Gloria Bistrița in Divizia A, a