Tony Strata
.jpg?lang=en) Strata with Ajaccio in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anthony Joseph Patrick Strata | ||
| Date of birth | 7 September 2004 | ||
| Place of birth | Marseille, France | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Full-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Vitória Guimarães | ||
| Number | 66 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| SC Air Bel | |||
| Burel FC | |||
| –2021 | Istres | ||
| 2021–2023 | Ajaccio | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022–2025 | Ajaccio B | 16 | (1) |
| 2023–2025 | Ajaccio | 49 | (1) |
| 2025– | Vitória Guimarães | 7 | (0) |
| 2025 | Vitória Guimarães B | 1 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023–2024 | Romania U20 | 8 | (0) |
| 2024– | Romania U21 | 12 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 24 January 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18 November 2025 | |||
Anthony "Tony" Joseph Patrick Strata (born 7 September 2004) is a professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Primeira Liga club Vitória Guimarães. Born in France, he represents Romania at under-21 level.[1]
Club career
[edit]Born in France, Strata made his debut for Ajaccio on 21 May 2023, in a 5–0 Ligue 1 loss to Rennes. On 21 August 2023, he played his first match in Ligue 2 against Bordeaux.[2]
After the bankruptcy of AC Ajaccio, he was released and signed, on 27 August 2025, with Vitória Guimarães for 4 years.[3] On 10 January 2026, Strata played in the Portuguese Taça da Liga final against Braga in which Vitória Guimarães won 2-1.
Personal life
[edit]Strata was born in Marseille to a Corsican father and a Romanian mother from Sălaj.[4][5]
Career statistics
[edit]- As of match played 24 January 2026.[6]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Ajaccio B | 2021–22 | Championnat National 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2022–23 | Championnat National 3 | 7 | 1 | — | — | — | 7 | 1 | ||||
| 2023–24 | Championnat National 3 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||||
| 2024–25 | Championnat National 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 16 | 1 | — | — | — | 16 | 1 | |||||
| Ajaccio | 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2023–24 | Ligue 2 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 19 | 0 | |||
| 2024–25 | Ligue 2 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 1 | |||
| Total | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 50 | 1 | ||||
| Vitória Guimarães | 2025–26 | Primeira Liga | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 3[b] | 0 | 12 | 0 | |
| Vitória Guimarães B | 2025–26 | Liga 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 73 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | 79 | 2 | |||
- ^ Includes Coupe de France, Taça de Portugal
- ^ Appearances in Taça da Liga
Honours
[edit]Vitória Guimarães
References
[edit]- ^ "România riscă să mai piardă un fotbalist în detrimentul unei naționale de top. Joacă pentru o echipă de mare tradiție". sport.ro. Archived from the original on 10 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ "Costin Curelea a anunțat lotul convocat pentru meciurile cu Cehia și Portugalia, din Elite League". gsp.ro. 2 September 2023. Archived from the original on 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ "Tony Strata a prins transferul carierei: A semnat până în 2029". digisport.ro. 27 August 2025. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
- ^ "Fotbalist cu origini în Sălaj, convocat la naţionala României U20!". sportulsalajean.ro.
- ^ "Tony Strata, fundașul dreapta de la naționala de tineret, joacă la Ajaccio, cu numărul 23, data de naștere a tatălui corsican: "Fiul Bogdanei, din Bulgari, Sălaj" Citeşte întreaga ştire: Tony Strata, fundașul dreapta de la naționala de tineret, joacă la Ajaccio, cu numărul 23, data de naștere a tatălui corsican: "Fiul Bogdanei, din Bulgari, Sălaj"". www.libertatea.ro (in Romanian). 5 June 2025.
- ^ Tony Strata at Soccerway. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
Categories:
- 2004 births
- Living people
- French people of Romanian descent
- French people of Corsican descent
- Romanian men's footballers
- French men's footballers
- Footballers from Marseille
- Men's association football full-backs
- Romania men's youth international footballers
- Romania men's under-21 international footballers
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Liga 3 (Portugal) players
- Primeira Liga players
- Championnat National 3 players
- AC Ajaccio players
- Vitória S.C. players
- Vitória S.C. B players
- 21st-century French sportsmen
- 21st-century Romanian sportsmen
- Romanian expatriate men's footballers
- French expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
- Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
- French expatriate sportspeople in Portugal