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Ionel Dănciulescu
Ionel Daniel Dănciulescu (born 6 December 1976) is a Romanian former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward, currently head of youth development at Liga III club CS Dinamo București (football), CS Dinamo București. He holds the all-time record for the most competitive appearances in Liga I, with 515 games played over the course of twenty years. He is the second-highest goalscorer in the history of Liga I with 214 goals, only behind Dudu Georgescu with 252. He also scored 35 goals in the Cupa României and he is the player with the most appearances, 36 in the Eternal derby (Romania), Dinamo – Steaua derby in which he scored 13 goals (8 for Steaua and 5 for Dinamo) which makes him the top-goalscorer alongside Florea Voinea. Club career Early years and Electroputere Craiova Born on 6 December 1976 in Slatina, Romania, Slatina, Romania, Dănciulescu started playing football in his hometown as a youngster for CSȘ Sl ...
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La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest level of the Spanish football league system. It is controlled by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional and contested by 20 teams over a 38-matchday period. Since its inception, All-time La Liga table, 62 teams have competed in La Liga, with nine teams crowned champions. Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, Barcelona have dominated the competition, winning 36 and 28 titles respectively. In the 1940s, Valencia CF, Valencia, Atlético Madrid, and Barcelona emerged as the strongest clubs. Real Madrid and Barcelona led the charge in the 1950s, each winning four titles. During the 1960s and 1970s, Real Madrid dominated with fourteen titles, with Atlético Madrid winning four. During the 1980s and 1990s, Real Madrid remained prominent ...
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Liga III
The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. It was founded in 1936 and was called Divizia C until 2006. An exception was the seasons 1992–93 to 1996–97, in which the league was called Divizia B. Its name was changed from Divizia C to Liga III before the start of the 2006–07 Liga III, 2006–07 season.Cotidianul''Divizia A a fost mitraliată'' (The "A Division" was gunned down) accessed on 3 February 2007 History Divizia C was founded in 1936 with the task of forming both an organizational and managerial buffer between national and regional football. In this sense, it was abolished several times, when a totally local management was opted for. Even on other occasions, its format was highly unstable. Until 1963 the competition was only held irregularly. After the first two seasons in 1936–37 Divizia C, 1936–37 and 1937–38 Divizia C, 1937–38, the Divizia C was discontinued and only resumed for one season i ...
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Gabriel Popescu (footballer)
Gabriel "Gabi" Popescu (born 25 December 1973) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Popescu represented the Romania national team 15 times and scored one goal. The undoubted highlight of his international career was his appearances at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where he played in all four Romanian matches, including their dramatic 2–1 victory over England. However, during the round of 16 match against Croatia, he fouled Aljoša Asanović in the penalty area. Croatia was awarded a penalty which Davor Šuker scored. Romania lost 1 - 0 and was eliminated from the tournament. Popescu began his career with Romanian side Universitatea Craiova, before moving to Spain where he played with three different La Liga clubs – UD Salamanca, Valencia CF and CD Numancia. After his Spanish spell he returned to Romania firstly with Dinamo București before joining city rivals National București. Popescu then joined Suwon Samsung Bluewings in June ...
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Ștefan Nanu
Ștefan Dumitru Nanu (born 8 September 1968 in Filiași) is a Romanian former footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ... and current manager. He played as a defender. External links * * * 1968 births Living people Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Romanian expatriate men's footballers FCV Farul Constanța players FC Rapid București players SBV Vitesse players FCSB players Eredivisie players Liga I players FC Vaslui players ASC Oțelul Galați players Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands People from Filiași Men's association football defenders Romanian football managers FC Petrolul Ploiești managers CS Minerul Motru managers ACS Poli Ti ...
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FC Universitatea Craiova
FCU 1948 Craiova Fotbal Club, commonly known as FC U Craiova 1948 or simply FC U Craiova, is a Romanian professional football club based in Craiova, Dolj County, that competes in the Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian league system. FC U Craiova is—along with CS Universitatea Craiova—one of the two entities asserting the history of the original Universitatea Craiova football team, which between 1948 and 1991 won four national titles and five national cups. During the latter year, the sports club dissolved its football department and ''FC Universitatea Craiova'' took its berth in the top flight. Generally considered the same entity with the old club, FC U continued its tradition for the next two decades, but was reorganised several times and retroactively deemed an unofficial successor. In 2012, it retired from every competition following their temporary banishment since 2011. After starting over from the lower leagues, FC U Craiova returned to the Liga I in the 20 ...
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FC Extensiv Craiova
Fotbal Club Caracal was a Romanian professional football club from Caracal, Olt County. The club's best period was in the early 90s when Electroputere Craiova, as it was called then, played four consecutive seasons in the Romanian first league. The best ranking was obtained in the 1991–92 season when finished 3rd and qualified to UEFA Cup. History Amid the rapid industrialization of Craiova in the early 1950s, a distinct football identity began to take shape, closely linked to the newly established Electroputere plant. Founded in 1949, the team—originally known as Metalul Craiova—was made up largely of workers from the factory.Gheorghe Rădulescu, Alexandru Firescu și Nicolae Opriș, Fotbalul craiovean de-a lungul anilor (Craiova football over the years) – Editura Scrisul Românesc 1981. While their initial performances in the regional championship were unremarkable, the team soon gained attention for its dynamic playing style and growing fanbase. Notable players fro ...
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Augustin Chiriță
Augustin Eduard Chiriță (born 10 October 1975) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ... for teams such as Minerul Motru, Argeș Pitești, Karpaty Lviv or Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk, among others. After retirement, Chiriță started his football manager career and was the assistant manager of Victoria Brănești, Olt Slatina and Ordabasy-2, among others. Since 2014, he was the fitness coach of Bunyodkor and Kyran. External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chirita, Augustin 1975 births Living people Footballers from Slatina, Romania Romanian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Liga I players Liga II players Liga III players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League play ...
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Ionuț Luțu
IonuÈ› is a Romanian masculine given name. The English equivalent is Johnny. Notable persons with that name include: * IonuÈ› Andrei (born 1985), Romanian bobsledder * IonuÈ› Badea (born 1975), Romanian footballer * IonuÈ› Bălan (born 1978), Romanian footballer * IonuÈ› Bâlbă (born 1981), Romanian footballer * IonuÈ› Costache (born 1983), Romanian footballer * IonuÈ› Dimofte (born 1984), Romanian rugby union footballer * IonuÈ› Dobroiu (born 1988), Romanian footballer * IonuÈ› Dragomir (born 1974), Romanian footballer * IonuÈ› Florea (born 1980), Romanian futsal player * IonuÈ› Gheorghe (born 1984), Romanian boxer * IonuÈ› Iftimoaie (born 1978), Romanian kickboxer * IonuÈ› Dan Ion (born 1981), Romanian professional boxer * IonuÈ› Irimia (born 1979), Romanian professional footballer * IonuÈ› Lupescu (born 1968), Romanian footballer * IonuÈ› Mazilu (born 1982), Romanian footballer * IonuÈ› Popa (1953–2020), Romanian footballer and coach * IonuÈ› Radu ( ...
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Claudiu Niculescu
Claudiu Iulian Niculescu (born 23 June 1976) is a Romanian football coach and former striker, currently in charge of Liga II club CSM Slatina. Club career Early career Claudiu Niculescu was born in Slatina and started playing football at the youth club CSȘ Slatina, alongside Ionel Dănciulescu, Ionuț Luțu and Augustin Chiriță, being coached by Ion Pârvulescu. He started his senior career playing at Jiul IELIF Craiova in Divizia B, after which he played for one season at Drobeta-Turnu Severin in Divizia C, returning for the following one season and a half to play in Divizia B at Electroputere Craiova. Universitatea Craiova Niculescu made his Divizia A debut on 1 March 1998, playing for Universitatea Craiova under Spanish coach José Ramón Alexanko in a 2–1 victory against Petrolul Ploiești in which he scored one goal. He spent three years and a half with '' The Blue Lions'', scoring 41 goals in 93 Divizia A matches, appearing in two games without scoring from ...
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ProSport
''ProSport'' was a daily Romanian newspaper, the country's second largest and most read sports-related publication after ''Gazeta Sporturilor''. It was owned by the PubliMedia International. It was launched in July 1997 by the Media Pro, the biggest media trust in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a subregion of the Europe, European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural and socio-economic connotations. Its eastern boundary is marked by the Ural Mountain .... Overview In 2000, the newspaper had average sales of around 79.910 copies, dropping to 43.000 copies in 2009, and losing the lead in sports newspapers. Although a wide range of sports was covered in the newspaper, football was given by far most of the coverage. The newspaper was divided into a variety of different sections such as: national football, international football, sports and special. It usually included 24 pages which use a 6-column format, b ...
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Florea Voinea
Florea Voinea (born 21 April 1941) is a Romanian retired association football, footballer who played as a striker (association football), striker. Club career Florea Voinea was born on 21 April 1941 in Puchenii Moșneni, Prahova County and started to play football at junior level at Rafinăria 1 Ploiești and Petrolul Ploiești. He started to play at senior level in Divizia B at Prahova Ploiești, after two seasons he returned to Petrolul, where he made his Divizia A debut on 20 August 1961 in a 6–2 away victory against FC Steaua București, CCA București in which he scored a goal. He went to play for FC Steaua București, Steaua București where he won the Divizia A 1967–68, 1967–68 Divizia A, being the team's top-goalscorer with 13 goals scored in the 25 matches he was used by coach Ștefan Kovács and he also won five Cupa României, scoring in all the finals, in the last two scoring a double in each. After a period of two years spent in France at Nîmes Olympique, Vo ...
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Eternal Derby (Romania)
The Eternal derby (), also called the Romanian derby ( or ) or the Great derby (), is a football match between Bucharest rivals ''FCSB'' and '' Dinamo București''. The game is usually among—if not the most—viewed and attended of the Liga I season. The two most successful clubs in Romania, they won a combined 95 honours: a record 61 for Steaua/FCSB (including two international trophies) and 34 for Dinamo București. The teams have played 189 matches in all domestic top-level competitions. FCSB have won 71 times to Dinamo's 61, with 57 drawn. History The first game between the two teams was played on 21 November 1948. Dinamo won 1–0. The events are regularly marred by instances of hooliganism and frequent outbreaks of violence between rival fan groups. The two teams are notable for their collective dominance of Romanian football. Between them, FCSB (27 times) and Dinamo (18 times) have won the Romanian football championship 45 times out of 106 completed seasons, resu ...
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