Adrian Lucaci (28 June 1966 – 12 April 2020) was a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n footballer who played as a

central defender In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers ...

. After he ended his playing career, he worked for a while as a

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a government bodies through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administra ...

at teams from the

Arad County Arad County () is an administrative division ( județ) of Romania roughly translated into county in the western part of the country on the border with Hungary, mostly in the region of Crișana and few villages in Banat. The administrative cente ...

and president at clubs from the Romanian lower leagues. In 2019, Lucaci was rewarded by the local administration with the title of "excellence in sports" for outstanding sports activity and contribution to the development of football in the

. Since 2014 until his death in 2020 he was president of the Arad County Football Association (AJF Arad).

Honours

Steaua Bucureşti *

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

: 1987–88

References

1966 births 2020 deaths Romanian men's footballers Romania men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football defenders Liga I players Liga II players Liga III players Vagonul Arad players FC UTA Arad players FC Sportul Studențesc București players FCSB players FC Universitatea Cluj players Romanian football managers Romanian sports executives and administrators Footballers from Arad, Romania 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-footy-defender-1960s-stub