Football World Cup 1990 / Romania

This article covers the Romanian national football team at the 1990 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Romania	10: 5	9
2	Denmark	15: 6	8th
3	Greece	3:15	4th
4th	Bulgaria	6: 8	3

Bulgaria	-	Romania	1: 3
Romania	-	Greece	3-0
Greece	-	Romania	0-0
Romania	-	Bulgaria	1-0
Denmark	-	Romania	3-0
Romania	-	Denmark	3: 1

Romanian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Silviu Lung	Steaua Bucharest	09/09/1956	4th	0	0	0
12	Bogdan Stelea	Dinamo Bucharest	05.12.1967	0	0	0	0
22nd	Gheorghe Liliac	Petrolul Ploiesti	04/22/1959	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Mircea Rednic	Dinamo Bucharest	04/09/1962	4th	0	0	0
3	Michael Klein	Dinamo Bucharest	10/10/1959	4th	0	1	0
4th	Ioan Andone	Dinamo Bucharest	03/15/1960	4th	0	0	0
6th	Gheorghe Popescu	FC Universitatea Craiova	10/09/1967	4th	0	0	0
13	Adrian Popescu	FC Universitatea Craiova	07/26/1960	0	0	0	0
19th	Emil Săndoi	FC Universitatea Craiova	03/01/1965	0	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Iosif Rotariu	Steaua Bucharest	09/27/1962	4th	0	0	0
8th	Ioan Sabau	Dinamo Bucharest	02/12/1968	4th	0	0	0
10	Gheorghe Hagi	Steaua Bucharest	02/05/1965	3	0	2	0
11	Dănuț Lupu	Dinamo Bucharest	02/27/1967	2	0	1	0
15th	Dorin Mateuț	Dinamo Bucharest	08/05/1965	1	0	0	0
16	Daniel Timofte	Dinamo Bucharest	10/01/1967	3	0	0	0
20th	Zsolt Muzsnay	Steaua Bucharest	06/20/1965	0	0	0	0
21st	Ioan Lupescu	Dinamo Bucharest	December 09, 1968	3	0	1	0
striker
7th	Marius Lăcătuș	Steaua Bucharest	04/05/1964	3	2	2	0
9	Rodion Cămătaru	Sporting Charleroi	06/22/1958	0	0	0	0
14th	Florin Răducioiu	Dinamo Bucharest	March 17, 1970	3	0	0	0
17th	Ilie Dumitrescu	Steaua Bucharest	01/06/1969	2	0	0	0
18th	Gavril Balint	Steaua Bucharest	03/01/1963	4th	2	0	0
Trainer
	Emerich Jenei		March 22, 1937

Romanian team games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Cameroon	3: 5	4th
2	Romania	4: 3	3
3	Argentina	3: 2	3
4th	Soviet Union	4: 4	2

• Soviet Union - Romania 0: 2 (0: 1)

Stadium: Stadio San Nicola ( Bari )

Spectators: 42,907

Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino ( Uruguay )

Goals: 0: 1 Lăcătuș (42nd), 0: 2 Lăcătuș (57th) 11m

• Cameroon - Romania 2: 1 (0: 0)

Stadium: Stadio San Nicola ( Bari )

Spectators: 38,687

Referee: Hernan Silva Arce ( Chile )

Goals: 1-0 Milla (76th), 2-0 Milla (86th), 2: 1 Balint (88th)

• Argentina - Romania 1: 1 (0: 0)

Stadium: Stadio San Paolo ( Naples )

Spectators: 52,733

Referee: Carlos Alberto Silva Valente ( Portugal )

Goals: 1-0 Monzón (63.), 1: 1 Balint (68.)

Round of 16

31,818

Stadio Luigi Ferraris ( Genoa )

Ireland

Romania

Jose Roberto Wright ( Brazil )

0: 0 a.d., 5: 4 a.d.

Penalty: Hagi hit Sheedy hit Lupu hit Houghton hit Rotariu hit Townsend hit Lupescu hit Cascarino hit Timofte kept O'Leary hit

Ireland and Romania relied on the motto “Safety first” and did not get a ball over the goal line in 120 minutes. Only on penalties did the players meet except for the Romanian Timofte, who failed due to goalkeeper oldie Bonner and thus heaved Ireland into the quarter-finals.

Remarks

When qualifying in 1989 and the announcement of the World Cup squad, Romania was socialist and used the socialist flag . At the final round in 1990 the flag, which is still valid today, was used.