Stephen Halliday: The tragic death of Daniel Prodan
Daniel Prodan, whose sudden death from a heart attack at the age of 44 is a source of shock and mourning in his native Romania and beyond, deserved to be much more than just a curious footnote in Scottish football history.
A hugely gifted defender, who was one of the outstanding performers in his country’s impressive run to the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup finals in the USA, he joined Rangers from Atletico Madrid for a fee of £2.2 million in the summer of 1998.
But in one of the more bizarre episodes of the Ibrox club’s big spending under the management of Dick Advocaat, Prodan never made a first-team appearance before he was eventually given a free transfer almost three years later.
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