Dumitru "Mitică" Marcu (born 9 April 1950) is a

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n former professional

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forward and manager. Despite Marcu started his career at Steaua București, he remained as a legendary player of the first golden generation of Universitatea Craiova, nicknamed "The Champion of a Great Love", together with players such as: Ion Oblemenco, Petre Deselnicu, Alexandru Boc or Theodor Țarălungă, among others. Marcu scored 63 goals in 203 matches for the white and blues. After retirement, Marcu started his career as a manager, managing Jiul Petroșani, several times and FC U Craiova. Between 2012 and 2016, Marcu was the sporting director of FC Gloria Buzău.

International career

Dumitru Marcu played in 16 matches for

and scored 3 goals.

Honours

Player

Universitatea Craiova *

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 ...

: 1973–74, 1979–80 *

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: 1977–78, 1978–79

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* * 1950 births Living people Footballers from Olt County Romanian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Romania men's international footballers Liga I players Liga II players FCSB players CS Universitatea Craiova players FC Gloria Buzău players Romanian football managers CSM Jiul Petroșani managers Al Wehda FC managers FC U Craiova 1948 managers Saudi Pro League managers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Expatriate football managers in Saudi Arabia 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-footy-forward-1950s-stub