Football World Cup 1998 / Romania

This article covers the Romanian national soccer team at the 1998 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Romania	37: 4	28
2	Ireland	22: 8	18th
3	Lithuania	11: 8	17th
4th	Macedonia	22:18	13
5	Iceland	11:16	9
6th	Liechtenstein	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
goalkeeper
1	Dumitru Stângaciu	Kocaelispor	08/09/1964	0	0	0	0
12	Bogdan Stelea	UD Salamanca	05.12.1967	4th	0	0	0
22nd	Florin Prunea	FC Universitatea Craiova	08/08/1968	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Dan Petrescu	Chelsea FC	12/22/1967	4th	1	2	0
3	Cristian Dulca	Rapid Bucharest	October 25, 1972	1	0	0	0
4th	Anton Doboș	AEK Athens	10/30/1965	1	0	0	0
6th	Gheorghe Popescu	Galatasaray SK	10/09/1967	4th	0	2	0
13	Liviu Ciobotariu	FC National Bucharest	March 26, 1971	4th	0	1	0
18th	Iulian Filipescu	Galatasaray SK	03/29/1974	3	0	2	0
20th	Tibor Selymes	RSC Anderlecht	05/14/1970	0	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Constantin Gâlcă	Espanyol Barcelona	March 8, 1972	4th	0	0	0
8th	Dorinel Munteanu	1. FC Cologne	06/25/1968	4th	0	1	0
10	Gheorghe Hagi	Galatasaray SK	02/05/1965	4th	0	1	0
15th	Lucian Marinescu	Rapid Bucharest	06/24/1972	4th	0	0	0
16	Gabriel Popescu	UD Salamanca	December 23, 1973	0	0	0	0
19th	Ovidiu Stîngă	PSV Eindhoven	05.12.1972	2	0	0	0
striker
7th	Marius Lăcătuș	Steaua Bucharest	04/05/1964	2	0	0	0
9	Viorel Moldovan	Coventry City	07/08/1972	4th	2	0	0
11	Adrian Ilie	Valencia CF	04/20/1974	4th	1	1	0
14th	Radu Niculescu	FC National Bucharest	03/02/1975	2	0	0	0
17th	Ilie Dumitrescu	CF Atlante	01/06/1969	1	0	0	0
21st	Gheorghe Craioveanu	Real Sociedad	02/14/1968	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Anghel Iordănescu		05/04/1950

Romanian team games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Romania	4: 2	7th
2	England	5: 2	6th
3	Colombia	1: 3	3
4th	Tunisia	1: 4	1

• Romania - Colombia 1: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Stade Gerland ( Lyon )

Spectators: 37,572

Referee: Lim Kee Chong ( Mauritius )

Goals: 1-0 Ilie (45th)

• Romania - England 2: 1 (0: 0)

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)

• Romania - Tunisia 1: 1 (0: 1)

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 )

Romania

Croatia

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.