Gheorghe Mulțescu
Gheorghe "Gigi" Mulțescu (born November 13, 1951 in Botoroaga ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach . In his playing career, he played 407 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A .
Career as a player
Mulțescu played in his youth for record champions Steaua Bucharest , but did not make it into the first team. In the summer of 1971, he left the capital and joined Jiul Petrosani to that at the time the Romanian in the highest soccer league, the Divizia A , was represented. In his first season he became a regular player and fought with his team to stay in the class. This did not change in the following years, when Mulțescu appeared as a dangerous midfielder. 15 hits in the 1973/74 season are the best results of his career. In the same year he reached the Romanian Cup final with his team and won his first title by beating Politehnica Timișoara 4-2 . In the following European Cup Winners' Cup , however, he was eliminated in the first round against Dundee United .
With the 1976/77 season Mulțescu and Jiul played in the front midfield, but could not qualify for the UEFA Cup . In the summer of 1979 he left the club and moved to Dinamo Bucharest . There he had the most successful period of his career. The win of the double from championship and cup victory in 1982 followed in the seasons 1982/83 and 1983/84 two more championships and in the season 1983/84 another cup victory, where he was not used in the final against Steaua Bucharest. In the same year he reached the semi-finals of the European Cup with Dinamo , but lost to the eventual winners Liverpool FC .
After he was no longer regularly used in the 1984/85 season , Mulțescu left Dinamo in the summer of 1985 and returned to Jiul Petroșani, who had just been relegated to Divizia B. As a player-coach of Jiul, he was promoted to Divizia A in 1986. The 1986/87 season ended with relegation. Mulțescu left Jiul to CSM Suceava , but switched to Autobuzul Bucharest in Divizia B during the winter break of 1987/88 . In the summer of 1988, he moved to league rivals UTA Arad , where he ended his career a year later.
National team
Mulțescu played 15 games for the Romanian national team , scoring three goals. He made his debut on September 25, 1974 in the friendly against Bulgaria when he came on for Anghel Iordănescu in the 72nd minute . He could not convince national coach Valentin Stănescu for further missions and only returned to the team on April 6, 1976 under Ștefan Kovács . After another five games, his international career ended for the time being at the end of the year.
Kovács' successor Constantin Cernăianu brought Mulțescu back to the team in October 1979 after three years. He and the team missed qualifying for the 1980 European Championship . In the following years it was only used irregularly. On November 12, 1983, he played his last international match in the European Championship qualifier against Cyprus .
Career as a coach
During his active career, Mulțescu worked from 1985 to 1987 as a player- coach for Jiul Petroșani . After rising in 1986 , he rose again from Divizia A at the end of the 1986/87 season and left the club.
After ending his career in 1989, he took over his former club UTA Arad as head coach in Divizia B . With the beginning of the 1990/91 season Mulțescu was the successor to Mircea Lucescu coach of Dinamo Bucharest . After 28 games, the club split from him in May 1991 and replaced him with Florin Halagian . In the summer of 1992 he went to Dacia Unirea Brăila , where he was replaced by Ioan Sdrobis after half a year . Then Mulțescu moved abroad, where he became head coach of Samsunspor in 1993 . During the following four years he was able to place his club in the front midfield, but missed the qualification for the European Cup. He left Samsunspor in 1997 and took over Kayseri Erciyesspor in the Turkish second division.
In the summer of 2000, Mulțescu returned to Romania. After a short interlude at Sportul Studențesc , he took over in autumn 2001 as the successor to Constantin Stancu Astra Ploieşti in Divizia A. After the end of the season, he moved to Gaziantepspor again in Turkey. He finished the 2002/03 season in fourth place, leading his team into the UEFA Cup . Nevertheless, he left Turkey and, after brief stints at FCU Politehnica Timişoara and Apulum Alba Iulia, took over his former club Jiul Petroşani in 2004 in Divizia B. In 2005, the club separated again from him. In the following years, several engagements in League 1 and League II followed, but they were not of long duration. From March 2011 to October 2011 he was the head coach of Sportul Studențesc in League 1, in March 2012 he was in charge of the second division Delta Tulcea for a short time . On March 28, 2012 Mulțescu replaced Valeriu Răchită as the coach of Petrolul Ploieşti . He led the promoted team to relegation, but had to leave after the last day of the match.
In August 2012, Mulțescu replaced Bogdan Stelea as head coach of Astra Ploieşti . He was released two months later. In January 2013 he took over Gaz Metan Mediaș and led the club to the class. In May 2013 he was given the opportunity to return to Dinamo Bucharest as the successor to Cornel Țălnar . After only two wins from eight games at the beginning of the 2013/14 season , he had to leave. Mulțescu was without a club for a year before joining Petrolul in September 2014. He only suffered one defeat in 13 games and left the club in early 2015 to coach al-Ettifaq in Saudi Arabia. He and his team missed promotion to the Saudi Professional League and had to take his hat off. In October 2015, the Romanian first division club FC Voluntari signed him . He was released after two months. Mulțescu has been the head coach of CS Universitatea Craiova since June 2016 .
successes
As a player
- Romanian champion: 1982, 1983, 1984
- Romanian Cup Winner: 1974, 1982
- Semi-finals in the European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1984
As a trainer
- Balkan Cup: 1994
- Promotion to League 1: 1986, 2001
Web links
- Gheorghe Mulțescu in the database of weltfussball.de
- Gheorghe Mulţescu in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Gheorghe Mulțescu on romaniansoccer.ro (English)
- Gheorghe Mulțescu on labtof.ro (Romanian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Evenimentul Zilei of March 28, 2012 , accessed on April 20, 2012 (Romanian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mulțescu, Gheorghe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mulțescu, Gigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Botoroaga , Romania |