 He played three seasons for Steaua and won the Romanian league title twice.In early 2006, he left Romania and joined FC Tom Tomsk, signing a two-year contract.In January 2008, he joined FC Carl Zeiss Jena, a relegation-threatened side in the German Second Bundesliga, where he signed a contract until the end of the season with an automatic one-year extension in case the club managed to stay in the Second Bundesliga.