Mircea Lucescu

Mircea Lucescu, October 2013

Mircea Lucescu ( born July 29, 1945 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach.

4.1 successes as a player
4.2 successes as a coach

Playing career

Lucescu started to play football game in 1961 at the Sports School No. 2 in Bucharest. Two years later he moved to Dinamo Bucharest, for whom he made his debut in the victory against Rapid Bucharest in Divizia A on June 21, 1964. From 1965 Lucescu played for two years in Divizia B at StiinTa Bucharest which reversed its name in 1967 in Politehnica Bucharest. In 1967 he returned to Dinamo Bucharest and remained faithful to the club until 1977 when he moved on to league rivals Corvinul Hunedoara. With this he went into the 1978/79 season, from their winter break, he served as player-coach, from, managed in the following season, however, the immediate resurgence. After his appointment as coach of the Romanian national team, he played the 1982/83 season not end before dedicating himself exclusively to his new office. His last appearance as a player had Lucescu however, on matchday 29 of the season 1989 / 90th Since it was the Romanian clubs banned in advance of the 1990 World Cup to use current national players from 27 Matchday ran Lucescu, who was coach of Dinamo Bucharest at that time, on 16 May 1990 at the game against Sportul Studenţesc itself on.

Lucescu has played 362 games in the first Romanian League, scoring 78 goals and. In addition there are 15 European Cup games in which he scored 3 goals.

National

In total he completed for Romania 70 matches ( including 23 as captain ) in which he scored nine goals. The first game he played as a former second-division player on November 2, 1966 against Switzerland. The striker took part in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. From 1974 he was for five years the Romanian 's most capped player after he had broken the 35- year-old record of Iuliu Bodola. In 1979 he was replaced Cornel Dinu from the most-capped player.

Happy in this context also the four U-23 international matches are counted. He also played again in the B range of Romania.

Coaching career

Players Coaches

In addition to his active career supervised Lucescu from the winter break of the 1978/79 season Corvinul Hunedoara first player coach of the Romanian football history. There, he managed to achieve the best results in the club's history and to mold players like Ioan Andone, Romulus Gabor, Michael Klein, Dorin Mateut or Mircea Rednic into internationals.

Romanian coach

After the home defeat against Switzerland in Romania as part of the qualification for the World Cup 1982 on 10 October 1981, the Romanian Football Federation decided on 17 October 1981 to use Lucescu as coach of the Romanian national team. As an assistant coach, he was the former coach of the junior national team, Mircea Rădulescu, set aside. His debut as coach gave the team on 11 November 1981 at the last almost become meaningless World Cup qualifier against Switzerland, the same opponent as in Lucescu's first international match as a player 25 years ago. Two years later, however, managed to qualify for the European Football Championship in 1984, when the national team Lucescu also supervised. In qualifying for the FIFA 1986 World Cup Romania failed with Lucescu as coach. The victory of Steaua Bucharest in the final of the European Champions' Cup in 1986 took advantage of the Romanian Football Federation to replace Lucescu on October 3, 1986 Emerich Jenei. Lucescu was at this time with 59 international matches as coach of Romanian record holder.

Club coach

In November 1985, he returned to that club as a coach back, with whom he had celebrated the greatest success as a player: Dinamo Bucharest. Here he remained up to and including the 1989/90 season, got in the Dinamo both the championship and the cup victory won. In 1990 he moved to Italy, where he worked in his first season, the SC Pisa took over, however, in which he announced after the 24th match day, when it became clear that the club would stay in the B series. In 1991, he became coach of the second division side Brescia Calcio, with whom he 1992 and 1994 promotion to the Serie A managed, with which he, however, also descended again in the following years 1993 and 1995. After Brescia Calcio had finished the 1995/96 season only just above the relegation border, Lucescu joined the Serie A AC Reggiana. There he announced, however, after ten game days and the club was on the end of the season only Table. Lucescu broke, in 1997, his tents in Italy provisionally from and returned to Romania. There Lucescu was with Rapid Bucharest at first runner-up and cup winners. After the first round of the 1998/99 season, he spent several months at Inter Milan, but returned even back before the season ends to Rapid Bucharest, with whom he won the championship title in the same year and in the cup final failed narrowly on penalties to Steaua Bucharest. After re- Romanian runner-up in 2000 Lucescu moved abroad again, this time in Turkey. There he won first with Galatasaray Istanbul the European Supercup in 2000, in 2001 the Turkish runners-up and a year later the Turkish champions. He then moved to local rivals Beşiktaş Istanbul, with which he could be again in 2003 Turkish masters. Since 2004, he coached the club Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, with whom he previously several championship titles (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012) and won in 2008 and 2012, the Ukrainian Cup won. For now, the greatest success of the team under Lucescu was winning the UEFA Cup in 2009.

On 15 July 2009 Lucescu suffered a heart attack in the Swiss training camp of his team. He was operated on shortly after his return to Donetsk the next day. On January 6, 2012, he suffered internal injuries when the car driven by him in Bucharest was also recorded for the unauthorized contact of a tram.

Achievements

Successes as a player

World Cup participants: 1970
Romanian champion: 1964, 1965, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1990
Romanian Cup Winners' Cup: 1964 ( Substitute ), 1968

Success as a coach

EM participants: 1984
UEFA Super Cup winner: 2000
UEFA Cup winners: 2009
Romanian champion: 1990, 1999
English- Italian Cup Winners' Cup: 1994
Romanian Cup Winners: 1986, 1990, 1998
Turkish champion: 2002, 2003
Ukrainian Champion: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Ukrainian Cup Winner: 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013

Relationship

Mircea is the father of former football goalkeeper coach Razvan Lucescu and today.

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