Cornel Buta

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| name = Cornel Buta

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1977|11|1}}

| birth_place = Vaslui, Romania

| height = {{height|meter=1.78}}

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| position = Right back

| years1 = 1996–1999

| years2 = 2000

| years3 = 2000–2004

| years4 = 2001

| years5 = 2003

| years6 = 2004–2005

| years7 = 2006

| years8 = 2006–2010

| years9 = 2010–2011

| clubs1 = FC Brașov

| clubs2 = Dinamo București

| clubs3 = Rapid București

| clubs4 = → FC Brașov (loan)

| clubs5 = → Naţional București (loan)

| clubs6 = Volyn Lutsk

| clubs7 = Pandurii Târgu Jiu

| clubs8 = Politehnica Iaşi

| clubs9 = Volyn Lutsk

| caps1 = 88

| caps2 = 9

| caps3 = 25

| caps4 = 26

| caps5 = 21

| caps6 = 42

| caps7 = 12

| caps8 = 105

| caps9 = 20

| goals1 = 6

| goals2 = 3

| goals3 = 0

| goals4 = 0

| goals5 = 0

| goals6 = 4

| goals7 = 1

| goals8 = 3

| goals9 = 1

| totalcaps = 348

| totalgoals = 18

| nationalyears1 = 2000

| nationalteam1 = Romania

| nationalcaps1 = 1

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| pcupdate = 1 November 2010

| ntupdate = 10 August 2008

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Cornel Buta (born 1 November 1977) is a Romanian retired footballer. He played as a right back and occasionally as a libero.

Club career

He started his professional career at FC Brașov, playing in the first two football leagues in Romania. After three and a half seasons he transferred to Dinamo București as a replacement for Cosmin Contra, who moved to Deportivo Alavés earlier. He stayed only a few months, however, and at the beginning of the next season he moved to Rapid București, where he still could not confirm. As a result, he returned to FC Braşov, where he played for another season and a half.

After further spells at Rapid, twice, and FC Naţional, Buta played in Ukraine, at FC Volyn Lutsk, before returning in Romania, at Pandurii Târgu-Jiu. After a full season played, his next club would be Politehnica Iaşi, moving there as a free agent.

In his career, he won 4 trophies: Divizia A in 2000 with Dinamo, the Romanian Cup in 2000 with Dinamo and in 2002 with Rapid, and the Romanian Supercup in 2002 with Rapid