Costică Ștefănescu

Costică Ștefănescu
Costică Ștefănescu (1984)
Personnel
Surname	Costică Ștefănescu
birthday	March 26, 1951
place of birth	Bucharest ,  Romania
date of death	20th August 2013
Place of death	Bucharest ,  Romania
position	Libero
Juniors
Years	station
1965-1968	Steaua Bucharest
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1968-1973	Steaua Bucharest	77 0(9)
1973-1986	Universitatea Craiova	378 (10)
1986-1988	FCM Brasov	35 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1977-1985	Romania	66 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1986-1989	FCM Brasov
1990	Steaua Bucharest
1991-1992	Al-Wakrah SC
1992-1993	FC Selena Bacau
1993-1994	Politehnica Timișoara
1994-1998	Romania (assistant coach)
1999-2000	Astra Ploiesti
2000-2001	CSM Reșița
2001	Hapoel Tzafririm Holon
2002-2005	Trainers in Saudi Arabia , Israel and Syria
2004	Al-Jaish
2008	Najran SC
2009	Al Tadamon
2012	al-Shamal SC
1 Only league games are given.

Costică Ștefănescu (born March 26, 1951 in Bucharest ; † August 20, 2013 ibid) was a Romanian football player and coach . He completed a total of 490 games in the highest Romanian football league, Divizia A , and took part in the 1984 European Football Championship .

Athletic career

society

Ștefănescu began playing football at the age of 14 at Steaua Bucharest , where he moved up to the first team in 1968 and played his first game in Divizia A on June 1, 1969 . Already in the 1969/70 season the striker became a regular player and contributed to winning the Romanian Cup. After initial successes, Ștefănescu was no longer used regularly and Steaua was no longer athletic as in previous years, so that Ștefănescu joined the league rival Universitatea Craiova in 1973 in exchange with Ștefan Sameş .

The move to Craiova was a stroke of luck for Ștefănescu. By 1986 he was able to win the Romanian championship three times and the Romanian cup four times. At the beginning of the 1980s Ștefănescu became one of the best liberos in Europe and reached in the 1982/83 season with Uni Craiova the semi-finals in the UEFA Cup , where the team was eliminated only because of the away goals rule against Benfica Lisbon .

After he - already 34 years old - had lost his regular place in Craiova in the 1985/86 season , Ștefănescu moved to FCM Brașov , where he also acted as player- coach. In 1988 he ended his career.

National team

Ștefănescu played a total of 66 games for the Romanian national football team , but scored no goal. He made his debut on August 14, 1977 against the reigning European champions Czechoslovakia , who were defeated 3-1. In 1984 national coach Mircea Lucescu appointed him to the squad for the European Football Championship , where he was used in all three games over the full distance. From 1983 until his last international match on 13 November 1985 against Turkey Ştefănescu was captain of the team.

Coaching career

Already during his time at FCM Brașov Ștefănescu acted as a player-coach and after the end of his active career in 1988 devoted himself entirely to work on the sidelines. In the 1990/91 season he took over the post as head coach of his former club Steaua Bucharest , but was replaced by Bujor Hălmăgeanu during the winter break . Ștefănescu then went to Qatar, where he coached the Al-Wakrah SC from 1991 to 1992 .

In autumn 1992 Ștefănescu returned to Romania and took over FC Selena Bacau , but could no longer avoid relegation from Divizia A. Shortly before the end of the season, the club separated from him. In September 1993 he took over as the successor to Gheorghe Chimiuc training with league rivals Politehnica Timişoara , got in the course of the 1993/94 season with "Poli" in danger of relegation and in March 1994 was dismissed lying in penultimate place. But end of the season, the club still had the aisle in the Divizia B compete.

After the soccer world championship in 1994 he was brought by national coach Anghel Iordănescu as his assistant to the Romanian national team , where he qualified for the soccer championship 1996 in England and for the soccer world championship 1998 in France. After Iordănescu's successor Victor Pițurcă had not taken over him, Ștefănescu only returned a year later as head coach and took over Astra Ploieşti in Divizia A, a year later the relegated team from CSM Reşița in Divizia B.

From 2002 to 2005, Ștefănescu was under contract with various clubs in Saudi Arabia , Israel and Syria , where he was able to win the Syrian Cup with Al-Jaish in 2004 . He also trained the Syrian military selection in 2004.

On December 21, 2008, Ștefănescu was dismissed from the Saudi Arabian first division club Najran SC after a 7-0 loss to Al-Hilal . In July 2009, he became the coach of Al Tadamon in the Kuwaiti Premier League . From August to December 2012 he was responsible for the team at the Qatari club al-Shamal SC .

Ștefănescu died after falling from the fifth floor of the Bucharest Military Hospital. There he had been treated for lung cancer.

successes

As a player

• European Championship participant: 1984
• Romanian champions: 1974 , 1980 , 1981
• Romanian cup winners: 1970 , 1977 , 1978 , 1981 , 1983
• 2nd place in the election of Romania's Footballer of the Year: 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985

As a trainer

• World Cup participant: 1998 (as assistant trainer)
• European Championship participant: 1996 (as assistant trainer)
• Syrian Cup Winner: 2004
• AFC Cup winner: 2004

Web links

• Costică Ștefănescu on romaniansoccer.ro (English)
• Costică Ștefănescu on labtof.ro (Romanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former captain of the Romanian national soccer team has died , RP-online.de, accessed on August 20, 2013.