Gheorghe Popescu (soccer player, 1967)

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Gheorghe Popescu
G. popescu in 2016.jpg
Gheorghe Popescu, 2016
Personnel
birthday October 9, 1967
place of birth Calafat ,  Romania
size 188 cm
position Central defender , Libero
Defensive midfield
Juniors
Years station
1982-1984 Dunărea Calafat
1984-1985 Universitatea Craiova
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1990 Universitatea Craiova 103 (22)
1988 →  Steaua Bucharest  (loan) 13 0(1)
1990-1994 PSV Eindhoven 109 (24)
1994-1995 Tottenham Hotspur 23 0(3)
1995-1997 FC Barcelona 59 0(9)
1997-2001 Galatasaray Istanbul 110 0(5)
2001-2002 US Lecce 28 0(3)
2002-2003 Dinamo Bucharest 8 0(0)
2003 Hannover 96 14 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1988-2003 Romania 115 (16)
1 Only league games are given.

Gheorghe "Gică" "Baciul" Popescu (born October 9, 1967 in Calafat ) is a former Romanian football player and current businessman .

Career as a player

The defender began his career in his hometown with Dunărea Calafat . From there it took Nicolae Zamfir , the youth coach of Universitatea Craiova , in the district capital of Dolj debuted and Popescu on June 9 in 1985 with home win against Universitatea the FCM Brasov in the Divizia A . In late 1987 he was asked to do his military service in Bucharest and therefore played in the second half of the 1987/88 season for Steaua Bucharest . In the summer of 1988 he returned to Universitatea Craiova against the will of the club's management, which also included Ilie Ceaușescu , the brother of Nicolae Ceaușescu , and was temporarily exposed to accusations of desertion . In 1990 Popescu moved to PSV Eindhoven , where he stayed until 1994. He then joined Tottenham Hotspur in 1994 and only stayed there one season before moving to FC Barcelona in Spain in 1995. In 1997 he moved to Galatasaray Istanbul in Turkey . He won the UEFA Cup with Galatasaray in 2000 . In 2001, despite the success, he moved to US Lecce in Italy , where he played one season. In 2002 he came to the Romanian record champions Dinamo Bucharest , but moved to Hannover 96 in Germany during the current season . There he completed a total of 14 games in the 2002/03 season, where he scored one goal. He played his last game as an active player on May 17, 2003, when he played on the 33rd Bundesliga matchday in a 2-2 draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach . On May 20, 2003, four days before the last game day of the Bundesliga , he announced that he would end his career at the end of the season.

National team

For the Romanian national soccer team Popescu played a total of 115 games from 1988 to 2003 and scored 16 goals. He made his debut for his country in a 3-0 home win against Albania on September 20, 1988. Popescu took part with the team at the 1990 World Cup in Italy , the 1994 World Cup in the USA , the 1998 World Cup in France , the 1996 European Championship in Great Britain and the 2000 European Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands . He played his last international game on March 29, 2003, in the 2-5 defeat by Denmark . Just two days later, he announced the end of his career in the national team.

After the career

Popescu founded his own football school for young talents during his active career in Craiova under the name Școala de fotbal Gică Popescu . Because of the non-transfer of transfer proceeds for the player Bogdan Gavrilă to Dunărea Galați , all teams of the school were excluded from the championship in March 2010. In March 2013, Popescu announced that it would close the highly indebted football school for cost reasons.

In November 2005 he ran for president of the Romanian Football Association , but was narrowly defeated by the incumbent Mircea Sandu . In addition to his role as a TV football expert, Popescu also appears as a businessman and investor. He owns a holding company , which includes ten companies, through which projects for the construction of hotel, office, commercial and residential properties are carried out.

Popescu was sentenced to three years and one month imprisonment on March 4, 2014 for engaging in a player transfer corruption scandal. Between 1999 and 2005, the Romanian state was deprived of around 1.5 million euros.

Achievements / titles

With Steaua Bucharest

With PSV Eindhoven

With FC Barcelona

With Galatasaray Istanbul

With the national team

Awards

Popescu managed to be Romania's Footballer of the Year six times (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996) despite the competition from his brother-in-law Gheorghe Hagi , who won this award seven times. On March 25, 2008, Popescu was awarded the Order of Merit "Meritul sportiv" III by the Romanian President Traian Băsescu for his services in the national team. Class excellent. He is an Honored Master of Sports.

Others

Popescu is married and has a daughter and a son.

literature

  • Mihai Ionescu / Răzvan Toma / Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 299 .
  • Daniel Nanu: Gică Popescu - Viața mea . Edigold SRL, Bucharest 2003, ISBN 973-0-02985-7 , p. 496 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Popescu ends his career
  2. ↑ Match report on kicker.de
  3. ↑ [1] , kicker.de
  4. ↑ Școala de fotbal Gică Popescu (Romanian)
  5. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor of March 24, 2010 , accessed January 24, 2011 (Romanian)
  6. ↑ Realitatea from March 28, 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 4, 2014 (Romanian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.realitatea.net
  7. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor of September 20, 2010 , accessed January 24, 2011 (Romanian)
  8. ↑ Spox.com, March 4, 2014 , accessed March 4, 2014
  9. ↑ Decorarea unor personalităţi ale fotbalului românesc. March 25, 2008, accessed January 24, 2011 (Romanian).
personal data
SURNAME Popescu, Gheorghe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popescu, Gica; Baciul (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION romanian soccer player and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Calafat