Researching Martin Tudor

Martin Tudor signed his first professional contract with Jiul Petroșani in 1996, aged 20. From there he was transferred to Olimpia Satu Mare in 1997 and then to Steaua București two years later.

Tudor played for six years at Steaua București, but in 2005 left the club to join CFR 1907 Cluj. From 2007 to 2008 he played at U Cluj. He retired in June 2008. In January 2010 he returned to professional football and retired again in the same year.

After retirement, he started a new career as a goalkeeping coach, working for Steaua București, FC U Craiova, Romania national football team, Ittihad FC or FC Voluntari, among others.

On 30 March 2020, around 10 o'clock in the morning, Martin Tudor suffered a heart attack in the kitchen of his girlfriend's apartment, in Reșița. According to his former teammate Dorinel Munteanu, CSM Reșița manager at that time, "the ambulance arrived very quickly, but unfortunately, nothing could be done, all the resuscitation maneuvers were done, but the tragedy could not be avoided." Martin Tudor was declared deceased in the same day, at just 43 years.

Tudor was the 1996 TransAtlantic Fan Fund winner, having stood unsuccessfully in 1988. A collection of his articles for Empties and other fanzines, The Tudor Dynasty, was edited by Bernie Evans and published during the 1996 campaign; his TAFF trip across the United States was later chronicled in Have Bag, Will Travel, sections of which had actually been published in the UK whilst he was still in the US.

Following Tudor's return to the UK, both he and Dan Steffan (the North American TAFF administrator ) were criticised by certain fans for not revealing during his tour that the previous UK administrator, Abi Frost, had diverted TAFF funds for her personal use and was unable to repay more than UK£2600. Tudor and Steffan defended their decision by stating they did not want the entire trip overshadowed by Frost's fraudulent actions. Despite promising to do so, Frost failed to repay the majority of the cash and disappeared from the social circles she had once been so active in (she died in 2009). Tudor and Steffan subsequently built the funds back up to the pre-fraud level, mostly with donations from British sf fans, and TAFF survived the scandal.

Critical Wave folded in 1996, after nine years of narrowly averting financial oblivion, but in September 2008, he and Green announced plans for an online relaunch of Critical Wave via eFanzines. A single issue appeared, but technical problems scuppered the second.

Other activities including administering the annual Nova Awards, a role he returned to in November 2009 but relinquished the following September.

Tudor lives in Willenhall, England. His daughter Heloise (born 1997) coincidentally shares her birthday with Tudor's Critical Wave partner Steve Green.