Dudu Georgescu (born 1 September 1950) is a retired

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who played as a forward and former coach.

Club career

Georgescu was born in

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on 1 September 1950. He started his career at Progresul București, making his

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debut in a 3–0 victory against Universitatea Craiova in which he played as a

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. After playing for Progresul in the first two leagues for a few years, Georgescu went to play for a short while at CSM Reșița, where he scored seven goals in 12 Divizia A games, including a double in a 4–1 victory against Dinamo București, which convinced them to transfer him. His Dinamo București spell consisted of 10 Divizia A seasons in which he won four league titles, being the team's top goalscorer in the first three, at the conquest of the first one being coached by Nicolae Dumitru, in the next two by Ion Nunweiller and Valentin Stănescu respectively, while at the last he worked once again with Dumitru. He won the 1981–82 Cupa României in which he scored two goals in the

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which ended with a 3–2 over FC Baia Mare, Stănescu using him the whole match. Georgescu also made some notable individual performances as being four consecutive times from 1975 until 1978 the Divizia A top-scorer, winning also the

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in 1975 (33 goals) and 1977 (47 goals) for the top-scorer of Europe. He won the Romanian Footballer of the Year award in 1976 and was nominated three times for the

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. With 207 goals scored (including 9 in the

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against Steaua București) in 260 Divizia A matches, Georgescu is Dinamo's all time leading top-scorer. He also represented '' The Red Dogs'' in European competitions by appearing in 23 games in which he scored 17 goals, including seven in the

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of which four are in a 11–0 against

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, two against

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and one against

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and in the 1981–82 UEFA Cup he scored one goal in a 3–2 victory against

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which helped the team eliminate the Italians. After his period spent at Dinamo, Georgescu went to play for SC Bacău, Gloria Buzău and Flacăra Moreni, at the latter making his last Divizia A appearance on 23 November 1986 in a 3–1 home loss in which he scored his side's goal against his former team, Dinamo, obtaining a competition record of 252 goals scored in 371 games. Georgescu ended his career in 1988 after playing two seasons in Divizia C for Muscelul Câmpulung and Unirea Urziceni.

International career

Georgescu played 40 matches and scored 21 goals for

(44/21 including Romania's Olympic team games), making his debut on 14 September 1973 under coach Valentin Stănescu in

's biggest ever victory, a 9–0 against

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, in which he scored one goal at the 1974 World Cup qualifiers. He scored four goals in five matches at the Euro 1976 qualifiers and made three appearances in which he scored two goals at the 1977–80 Balkan Cup. Then he played four games and scored two goals at the 1978 World Cup qualifiers, two appearances and two goals netted in a 2–2 against

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at the Euro 1980 qualifiers and made one appearance at each of the 1982 World Cup qualifiers and the 1984 Euro qualifiers. Georgescu's last game for the national team was a friendly which ended with a 1–0 victory against

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. For helping his country qualify at Euro 1984, Georgescu was decorated by

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Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Georgescu goal''.

Managerial career

After he ended his playing career, Georgescu coached at Romanian teams like CSM Reșița, Corvinul Hunedoara, Acvila Giurgiu and Dunărea Călărași. He also had coaching spells outside Romania at Moldovan side Zimbru Chișinău and in Saudi Arabia at Al-Najma.

Personal life

His son, who is also named Dudu Georgescu was a football

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who arbitrated matches including in the Romanian top-division,

Honours

Progresul București * Divizia B: 1969–70 Dinamo București *

: 1974–75, 1976–77, 1981–82, 1982–83 *

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: 1981–82 Individual *

top-scorer: 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78 *

: 1974–75, 1976–77 *

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

(10th place),

1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

(15th place),

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

(9th place) * Romanian Footballer of the Year: 1976, (runner-up) 1977 * Dinamo București top scorer in

: 207 goals *Most goals scored in

: 252 goals

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