Lică Nunweiller

Lică Nunweiller

Personal information
Date of birth	(1938-12-12)12 December 1938
Place of birth	Piatra Neamț, Romania
Date of death	8 November 2013(2013-11-08) (aged 74)
Place of death	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder, Defender
Youth career
1947–1948	Unirea Tricolor București
1948–1949	Venus U.C.B.
1949–1957	Dinamo București
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1957–1959	Dinamo Obor București
1960–1967	Dinamo București	140	(5)
1967–1969	Dinamo Bacău	55	(0)
1969	Beşiktaş	1	(0)
1970	Dinamo București	11	(0)
Total		207	(5)
International career
1961–1968	Romania	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lică Nunweiller (12 December 1938 – 8 November 2013) was a Romanian international football midfielder who played for clubs in Romania and Turkey.

Club career

Lică Nunweiller was born in Piatra Neamț on 13 November 1938, but his parents told the authorities that he was born on 12 November 1938, because they felt that the number 13 brings bad luck. He had an 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, Victor, Radu and Eduard were footballers, each of them having at least one spell at Dinamo București, they are the reason why the club's nickname is "The Red Dogs". Lică made his Divizia A debut, playing for Dinamo București on 5 June 1960 in a 2–0 victory against Rapid București. Throughout his first period spent at Dinamo's senior team from 1960 until 1967, he won four consecutive Divizia A titles with the club from 1962 to 1965 and a Cupa României in 1964, also appearing in 11 matches without scoring in the European Cup. In 1967, he joined Dinamo Bacău for two seasons. Nunweiller next moved to Turkey to join Beşiktaş J.K. in 1969, making him one of the first Romanians to play professional football in Turkey. He made only one appearance in the Süper Lig during the 1969–70 season, before returning to Romania to end his career at Dinamo București in 1970.

International career

Lică Nunweiller played four friendly games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 8 October 1961 under coach Gheorghe Popescu I in a 4–0 victory against Turkey. His following games were a 3–2 victory against East Germany, a 0–0 against Turkey and a 1–1 against Austria.

Honours

Dinamo București

• Divizia A: 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65
• Cupa României: 1963–64