Football World Cup 1998 / Romania
This article covers the Romanian national soccer team at the 1998 World Cup .
qualification
rank | country | Gates | Points |
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1 |
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37: 4 | 28 |
2 |
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22: 8 | 18th |
3 |
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11: 8 | 17th |
4th |
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22:18 | 13 |
5 |
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11:16 | 9 |
6th |
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3:52 | 0 |
Romania | - | Lithuania | 3-0 |
Iceland | - | Romania | 0: 4 |
Macedonia | - | Romania | 0: 3 |
Romania | - | Liechtenstein | 8-0 |
Lithuania | - | Romania | 0: 1 |
Romania | - | Ireland | 1-0 |
Romania | - | Macedonia | 4: 2 |
Liechtenstein | - | Romania | 1: 8 |
Romania | - | Iceland | 4-0 |
Ireland | - | Romania | 1: 1 |
Romanian contingent
No. | Surname | Club before the start of the World Cup | birthday | Games | Gates |
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goalkeeper | |||||||
1 | Dumitru Stângaciu |
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08/09/1964 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
12 | Bogdan Stelea |
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05.12.1967 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 |
22nd | Florin Prunea |
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08/08/1968 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Defender | |||||||
2 | Dan Petrescu |
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12/22/1967 | 4th | 1 | 2 | 0 |
3 | Cristian Dulca |
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October 25, 1972 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4th | Anton Doboș |
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10/30/1965 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
6th | Gheorghe Popescu |
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10/09/1967 | 4th | 0 | 2 | 0 |
13 | Liviu Ciobotariu |
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March 26, 1971 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 0 |
18th | Iulian Filipescu |
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03/29/1974 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
20th | Tibor Selymes |
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05/14/1970 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
midfield player | |||||||
5 | Constantin Gâlcă |
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March 8, 1972 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 |
8th | Dorinel Munteanu |
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06/25/1968 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 0 |
10 |
Gheorghe Hagi ![]() |
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02/05/1965 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 0 |
15th | Lucian Marinescu |
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06/24/1972 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 |
16 | Gabriel Popescu |
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December 23, 1973 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
19th | Ovidiu Stîngă |
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05.12.1972 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
striker | |||||||
7th | Marius Lăcătuș |
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04/05/1964 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
9 | Viorel Moldovan |
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07/08/1972 | 4th | 2 | 0 | 0 |
11 | Adrian Ilie |
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04/20/1974 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 0 |
14th | Radu Niculescu |
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03/02/1975 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
17th | Ilie Dumitrescu |
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01/06/1969 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
21st | Gheorghe Craioveanu |
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02/14/1968 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Trainer | |||||||
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05/04/1950 |
Romanian team games
Preliminary round
rank | country | Gates | Points |
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1 |
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4: 2 | 7th |
2 |
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5: 2 | 6th |
3 |
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1: 3 | 3 |
4th |
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1: 4 | 1 |
Stadium: Stade Gerland ( Lyon )
Spectators: 37,572
Referee: Lim Kee Chong ( Mauritius )
Goals: 1-0 Ilie (45th)
Stadium: Stade de Toulouse ( Toulouse )
Spectators: 33,500
Referee: Marc Batta ( France )
Goals: 1-0 Moldovan (47th), 1: 1 Owen (79th), 2: 1 Petrescu (90th)
Stadium: Stade de France ( Saint-Denis )
Spectators: 77,000
Referee: Edward Lennie ( Australia )
Goals: 0: 1 Souayah (10th) 11m , 1: 1 Moldovan (72nd)
With high hopes of ending the failures of the 1990s, the young English team led by David Beckham went to the 1998 World Cup and the 1966 world champion achieved an opening win against Tunisia. In the second game, however, Romania should confirm their performance from 4 years ago. In a very exciting match, Petrescu's goal resulted in a last-minute win against the English side. Despite the tired 1-1 draw against Tunisia, Romania secured first place ahead of England. Colombia never really got into the tournament and so the team around old star Valderrama finished the tournament with 3 points in third place.
Round of 16
31,800 | Parc Lescure ( Bordeaux ) |
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Javier Castrilli ( Argentina ) | 0: 1 (0: 0) | 0: 1 Šuker (47th) 11m |
Croatia won in an extremely weak game against Romania with a goal from Davor Šuker.