Rareș Soporan

Rareș Ciprian Soporan (born 29 June 1983) is a Romanian former professional football player. He played as a central defender but could also take up the role of a defensive midfielder. Soporan retired in 2014 and after that he moved to England where he works as a bartender.

He started football at CUG Cluj before moving to Universitatea Cluj in 1993. The first two seasons at "U"'s first team were rather uneventful but then Soporan made 28 appearances and scored 9 goals in just one season for the Divizia B team. Winter 2006 saw him transferred to Politehnica Timişoara for the sum of 200.000 Euros where he was coached by Gheorghe Hagi.

After a year and half, in which he did not rise up to the club's expectations, Soporan was loaned to Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ.