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Romanian Footballer Of The Year
The Romanian Footballer of the Year (), also known as the Nicolae Dobrin Trophy (), is an annual association football award given by the ''Gazeta Sporturilor'' newspaper to the Romanian player adjudged to have been the best during a calendar year. The current holder is Dennis Man, who won the award for his performances in 2024 representing Parma. It has been presented since 1966 and is currently named after Nicolae Dobrin, the first recipient of the award and one of Romania's most notable footballers. Gheorghe Hagi, the joint leading goalscorer of the national team alongside Adrian Mutu, has received the trophy a record of seven times. Other annual honours handed out by ''Gazeta Sporturilor'' include the Foreign Player of the Year in Romania and the Romania Coach of the Year awards. Winners Breakdown of winners By number of wins By club See also *''Gazeta Sporturilor'' Foreign Player of the Year in Romania *''Gazeta Sporturilor'' Romania Coach of the Year *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Hagi
Gheorghe Hagi (; born 5 February 1965) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently the owner of Liga I club Farul Constanța. Deployed as an attacking midfielder, Hagi was considered one of the best players in the world during the 1980s and '90s, and is regarded by many as the greatest Romanian footballer of all time. Fans of Turkish club Galatasaray, with whom Hagi ended his career, called him (" heCommander"), while he was known as ("The King") to Romanian supporters. Nicknamed "The Maradona of the Carpathians", he was a creative advanced playmaker renowned for his dribbling, technique, vision, passing and shooting. After starting his playing career in Romania, with FC Constanța, and subsequently featuring for Sportul Studențesc and Steaua București, he later also had spells in Spain with Real Madrid and Barcelona, Italy with Brescia, and Turkey, with Galatasaray. Hagi is one of the few footballers to have played for both Spanish ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Ionescu (footballer, Born 1938)
Ion Gheorghe Ionescu (born 5 April 1938) is a Romanian former football striker. Club career Rapid București Ion Gheorghe Ionescu, nicknamed "Puiu" was born on 5 April 1938 in Bucharest, Romania, growing up in the Cotroceni neighborhood. He made his Divizia A debut, playing for Rapid București under coach Ion Mihăilescu on 30 October 1960 in a 2–0 loss in front of Minerul Lupeni. He spent eight seasons at Rapid, making a successful couple in the team's offence with Emil Dumitriu, winning two times the top-goalscorer of Divizia A title in the 1962–63 season with 20 goals and in 1965–66 with 24 goals. In the 1966–67 season, under the guidance of coach Valentin Stănescu he helped Rapid win the first league title in the club's history, being the team's top-goalscorer with 15 goals scored in 22 matches. In the following season he appeared in four matches in the 1967–68 European Cup campaign, scoring one goal against Trakia Plovdiv which helped Rapid advance t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mircea Lucescu
Mircea Lucescu (; born 29 July 1945) is a Romanian professional Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former player, currently the head coach of the Romania national football team, Romania national team. He is one of the most decorated managers of all time. Lucescu is also one of the most successful players of the Liga I, Romanian league championship, having won all seven of his titles with FC Dinamo București, Dinamo București. He also had spells at FC Sportul Studențesc București, Știința București and FC Corvinul Hunedoara, Corvinul Hunedoara, and made 70 appearances for the Romania national football team, Romania national team, which he Captain (association football), captained in the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Lucescu has coached various sides in Romania, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia. He is well known for his twelve-year stint in charge of FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Shakhtar Donetsk, where he became the most successful coach in the team' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Dumitru
Ion Dumitru (born 2 January 1950), commonly known as Liță Dumitru, is a Romanian former professional footballer, and manager who played as a midfielder, currently technical director at Liga II club Concordia Chiajna. Career A Romanian international, Dumitru represented his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Regarded as one of Romania's greatest players he won the Romanian Footballer of the Year in 1973 and 1975. International stats International goals ''Scores and results table. "Score" indicates the score after the player's goal: Honours Player ;Rapid București * Cupa României: 1971–72 ;Steaua București *Divizia A: 1975–76, 1977–78 * Cupa României: 1975–76, 1978–79 ;Politehnica Timișoara * Cupa României runner-up: 1980–81 ;Universitatea Craiova * Cupa României: 1982–83 Individual * Romanian Footballer of the Year: 1973, 1975, (''runner-up''): 1971, (''fifth place''): 1972, Coach ;Würzburger Kickers * Landesliga Bayern-Nord: 1989 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasile Ianul
Vasile Ianul (1 November 1945 – 20 March 2013) was a Romanian footballer who played as a defender. He died on 20 March 2013. Career Vasile Ianul played as a defender for Politehnica Iași from 1966 until 1974, a period in which he helped the club win two promotions in the first league. After he ended his playing career, Ianul worked as a lawyer and in 1975 he became a football referee, managing to arbitrate matches in the Romanian top-division Divizia A. From 1981 until 1985 he was Politehnica Iași's president a period in which the club managed to win a promotion to the first league in the 1981–82 season, also being the club's coach for a short period in 1983. In 1985 he became the head of Dinamo București's football section, in 1991 he was named the club's vice-president and from 1992 until 1994, Ianul was president. During this period of nine years spent at Dinamo, the club won two league titles, two cups and reached the European Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolae Lupescu
Nicolae Lupescu (17 December 1940 – 6 September 2017) was a Romanian football defender and manager. Club career Early career Nicolae Lupescu was born on 17 December 1940 in Bucharest, Romania. He started to play football at junior level in 1954 at ICAR București, afterwards playing for Flacăra Roșie București, starting his senior career by playing two seasons in Divizia B, the first one at Academia Militară București and the second at Olimpia București. Rapid București Lupescu was eventually brought to Rapid București by coach Nicolae Roșculeț where he debuted in Divizia A on 16 September 1962 in a 4–2 victory against Farul Constanța. He remained with Rapid for ten seasons, winning the title in the 1966–67 season, being used by coach Valentin Stănescu in 26 matches in which he scored one goal. In the following season he played four games in the 1967–68 European Cup, helping ''The Railwaymen'' eliminate Trakia Plovdiv and advance to the following round w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necula Răducanu
Necula is a Romanian surname. Notable people with the name include: * Cătălin Necula (born 1969), a Romanian footballer *George Necula, a Romanian computer scientist *Iulia Necula (born 1986), a Romanian table tennis player *Răducanu Necula Răducan Necula (born 10 May 1946), widely known as Rică Răducanu, is a retired Romanian football goalkeeper. Club career Early career Rică Răducanu, nicknamed ''Tamango'' after the character played by Alex Cressan from the 1958 movie, Taman ... (born 1946), a Romanian footballer * Veronica Necula (born 1967), a Romanian rower See also *'' Tricentra necula'', a species of moth {{surname Romanian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristide Ghiță
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (; born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991 before being deposed in a coup d'état. As a priest, he taught liberation theology and, as president, he attempted to normalize Afro-Creole culture, including Vodou religion, in Haiti. Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in 1982 after completing his studies to become a priest. He became a focal point for the pro-democracy movement, first under Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and then under the military transition regime which followed. He won the 1990–91 Haitian presidential election with 67% of the vote but was ousted just months later in the September 1991 military coup. The coup regime collapsed in 1994 under U.S. pressure and threat of force (Operation Uphold Democracy), and Aristide was president again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004. Aristide was ousted again in a 2004 coup d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radu Nunweiller
Radu Nunweiller (born 16 November 1944) is a former Romanian central midfield football player and manager. Club career File:Lică Nunweiller, Radu Nunweiller, Ion Nunweiller 1963.jpg, left, 270px, Radu Nunweiller was born in Bucharest on 16 November 1944. He had an Austrians, Austrian father named Johann Nunweiller, who settled in Piatra Neamț after World War II where he met his wife, Rozina, later they moved from Piatra Neamț to Bucharest. He had six brothers, the oldest one of them, Constantin was a water polo player and the other five: Dumitru, Ion Nunweiller, Ion, Lică Nunweiller, Lică, Victor and Eduard were footballers, each of them having at least one spell at FC Dinamo București, Dinamo București. They are the reason why the club's nickname is "The Red Dogs" as especially Ion and Lică were known for their aggressiveness on the field and the fact that their faces were turning red from the effort. Radu made his Liga I, Divizia A debut, playing for Viitorul Bucureșt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Barbu (footballer, Born 1938)
Ion "Bebe" Barbu (24 December 1938 – 2 May 2011) was a Romanian international football defender who played for clubs in Romania and Turkey. Club career Early career Ion Barbu also known as "Bebe" was born on 24 December 1938 in Craiova, Romania, starting to play football in 1954 at local club, Locomotiva. Three years later he went to play for Dinamo Obor București. Argeș Pitești In 1959 he signed with Divizia B club, Argeș Pitești where in his first years he worked with coach Ștefan Vasile, managing to score 10 goals in his first season as they finished on the third place and in the second one helping the club finish first and earn promotion to the first league. He made his Divizia A debut on 20 August 1961 in a 4–3 home loss in front of Dinamo București. However his first top-league season was rather unsuccessful as they relegated back to the second league but Barbu stayed with the club, helping it promote back after one year. In the 1964–65 Cupa României edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Gornea
Gheorghe Gornea (2 August 1944 – 2005) was a Romanian football goalkeeper. Club career Gornea was born on 2 August 1944 in Sinaia, Romania and he started playing football at Carpați Sinaia, before transferring at Steaua București where he made his Divizia A debut on 30 August 1964 in a 4–0 away victory against Știința Craiova. In his second season spent at Steaua he won the Cupa României. Afterwards he went to play for UTA Arad where in his five years spent at the club he won two league titles, being used by coach Nicolae Dumitrescu in 30 games in the first one and in 29 matches in the second one. He also helped the team by having an appreciated performance when they eliminated the defending European Cup champions Feyenoord in the 1970–71 European Cup season, having a total of six appearances in the competition over the course of two seasons. For the way he played in 1968, Gornea was placed fourth in the ranking for the Romanian Footballer of the Year award. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lajos Sătmăreanu
Lajos Sătmăreanu (also known as Ludovic Sătmăreanu, , born 21 February 1944) is a Romanian former football player of Hungarian ethnicity. Club career Lajos Sătmăreanu, nicknamed '' Facchetti of the Carpathians'' was born on 21 February 1944 in Salonta, Romania and started to play football in 1958 at local club, Recolta. He made his Divizia A debut on 17 March 1963, playing for Crișana Oradea in a 4–2 away loss against Steaua București, shortly afterwards moving to play at neighboring team, Flamura Roșie in Divizia B for one season. After another Divizia B season, this time spent at ASA Târgu Mureș, Sătmăreanu went to play at Steaua for 10 seasons, winning one league title in the 1967–68 season, being used by coach Ștefan Kovács in 26 matches and also winning five Cupa României, scoring the last goal of the 4–0 victory against UTA Arad from the 1966 final. For the way he played in 1968, Sătmăreanu was placed third in the ranking for the Romanian F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
