Mircea Lucescu

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Mircea Lucescu
Mircea Lucescu 2009.jpg
Mircea Lucescu (2009)
Personnel
birthday July 29, 1945
place of birth Bucharest ,  Romania
size 177 cm
position Midfield , storm
Juniors
Years station
1961-1963 Școala Sportivă 2 Bucharest
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1963-1965 Dinamo Bucharest 3 0(0)
1965-1967 →  Știința Bucharest  (loan) 50 (14)
1967-1977 Dinamo Bucharest 247 (57)
1977-1982 Corvinul Hunedoara 111 (21)
1989-1990 Dinamo Bucharest 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1966-1979 Romania 70 0(9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1979-1982 Corvinul Hunedoara ( player-manager )
1981-1986 Romania
1985-1990 Dinamo Bucharest
1990-1991 SC Pisa
1991-1996 Brescia Calcio
1996-1997 AC Reggiana
1997-1998 Rapid Bucharest
1998-1999 Inter Milan
1999-2000 Rapid Bucharest
2000-2002 Galatasaray Istanbul
2002-2004 Beşiktaş Istanbul
2004-2016 Shakhtar Donetsk
2016-2017 Zenit St. Petersburg
2017-2019 Turkey
2020– Dynamo Kiev
1 Only league games are given.

Mircea Lucescu (born July 29, 1945 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian soccer player and today's soccer coach .

Player career

Mircea Lucescu (left) in a derby game against Steaua Bucharest .

Lucescu started playing soccer in 1961 at Sports School No. 2 in Bucharest. Two years later he moved to Dinamo Bucharest , for whom he made his debut in Divizia A on June 21, 1964 in the win against Rapid Bucharest .

From 1965 Lucescu played for two years in Divizia B with Știința Bucharest , which changed its name in 1967 to Politehnica Bucharest . In 1967 he returned to Dinamo Bucharest and remained loyal to the club until 1977 when he moved to league rivals Corvinul Hunedoara . In the 1978/79 season , where he acted as a player- coach from the winter break , he had to relegate. In the following season, Lucescu managed to immediately rise again.

After his appointment as coach of the Romanian national team , he played the 1982/83 season to the end before he devoted himself exclusively to his new job as national coach.

His very last appearance as a player had Lucescu on matchday 29 of the 1989/90 season when he was coach of Dinamo Bucharest. Since the Romanian clubs were forbidden to use current national players from the 27th matchday onwards in the run-up to the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Lucescu ran on May 16, 1990 in the game against Sportul Studențesc himself again as a player. He was 44 years old at the time.

Lucescu has played 362 games in the Romanian first division and scored 78 goals. In addition, there are 15 European Cup games in which he scored 3 goals.

National team

He made a total of 70 international matches for Romania (including 23 as captain), in which he scored nine goals. He played his first game as a second division player on November 2, 1966 against Switzerland . The striker took part in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico .

From 1974 he was Romania's record international player for five years after breaking the 35-year-old record of Iuliu Bodola . In 1979 Cornel Dinu replaced him as a record international player.

The four U-23 international matches are also counted in this context. He also played again in the B selection of Romania.

Coaching career

Player-coach

Parallel to his active career, Lucescu looked after Corvinul Hunedoara as the first player-coach in Romanian football history from the winter break of the 1978/79 season. There he managed to achieve the best results in the club's history and to form players like Ioan Andone , Romulus Gabor , Michael Klein , Dorin Mateuț or Mircea Rednic into national players.

Romanian national coach

After Romania's home defeat against Switzerland in qualifying for the 1982 World Cup on October 10, 1981, the Romanian Football Association decided on October 17, 1981 to use Lucescu as the coach of the Romanian national team . As an assistant coach, the then coach of the junior national team, Mircea Rădulescu , was placed at his side. The team made their debut as national coach on November 11, 1981 in the last almost insignificant World Cup qualifier against Switzerland, the same opponent as in Lucescu's first international match as an active player 25 years earlier.

Two years later, he qualified for the 1984 European Football Championship , in which Lucescu also looked after the national team. In qualifying for the 1986 World Cup , Romania failed with Lucescu as coach.

The Romanian Football Association used the victory of Steaua Bucharest in the final of the European Cup in 1986 to replace Lucescu on October 3, 1986 by Emerich Jenei . At that time, Lucescu was the Romanian record holder with 59 international matches as a coach.

Club coach

In November 1985 he returned to the club as a coach with which he had celebrated the greatest successes as a player: Dinamo Bucharest . Here he stayed up to and including the 1989/90 season, in which Dinamo Bucharest both won the championship title and won the cup.

Viktor Prokopenko and Mircea Lucescu (2005)

In 1990 he moved to Italy, where he took over SC Pisa in his first season , but where he resigned after the 24th match day when it became apparent that the club would be relegated to Serie B. In 1991 he was coach of the second division club Brescia Calcio , with whom he made promotion to Serie A in 1992 and 1994 , but also relegated again in the following years in 1993 and 1995. After Brescia Calcio had ended the 1995/96 season just above the relegation limit, Lucescu moved to Serie A to AC Reggiana . There he resigned after ten matchdays and the club was only bottom of the table at the end of the season.

Mircea Lucescu celebrates winning the Ukrainian Cup with Shakhtar Donetsk in 2011

Lucescu then temporarily broke his tent in Italy in 1997 and returned to Romania. There he became runner-up and cup winner straight away with Rapid Bucharest . After the first half of the 1998/99 season , he moved to Inter Milan for a few months and reached the quarter-finals of the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League . However, he returned before the end of the season to Rapid Bucharest, with whom he won the championship title in the same year and narrowly failed on penalties against Steaua Bucharest in the cup final .

After the Romanian runner-up again in 2000, Lucescu moved abroad again, this time to Turkey. There he won the European Supercup 2000 with Galatasaray Istanbul , became Turkish runner-up in 2001 and Turkish champion a year later. He then moved to local rivals Beşiktaş Istanbul , with whom he was again Turkish champions in 2003 and also reached the quarter-finals of the 2003 UEFA Cup .

Since 2004 he has coached the Shakhtar Donetsk club in Ukraine , with which he has won several championship titles (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) as well as in 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016 won the Ukrainian Cup. For the time being, the team under Lucescu's greatest success was winning the 2009 UEFA Cup .

On July 15, 2009, Lucescu suffered a heart attack in his team's Swiss training camp . He was operated on the next day shortly after his return to Donetsk . On January 6, 2012, he suffered internal injuries when the car he was driving in Bucharest was hit by a tram while turning around illegally.

Lucescu left Donetsk in summer 2016 and moved to Zenit St. Petersburg . After Lucescu had finished the 2016/17 season with 3rd place, his contract with Zenit St. Petersburg was terminated.

In July 2020, Lucescu became head coach at Dynamo Kiev . Due to protests from Dynamo Kiev fans, Lucescu resigned as head coach after just 4 days.

Turkish national coach

On August 4, 2017, he became the coach of the Turkish national football team , taking over from the resigned Fatih Terim . On February 11, 2019, the Turkish Football Association announced the dismissal of Lucescu.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

  • Corvinul Hunedoara

relationship

Mircea is the father of the former soccer goalkeeper and current coach Răzvan Lucescu .

literature

  • Mircea Lucescu: Mirajul gazonului . Junimea, Iași 1981.
  • Mihai Ionescu, Răzvan Toma, Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 270 .
  • Andrey Babeshko, Yuriy Juris: Mircea Lucescu - My Shakhtar History . New World (Новый Мир), Donetsk 2011, ISBN 978-6-17638017-7 , p. 242 .

Web links

Commons : Mircea Lucescu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zenit sack Mircea Lucescu after second straight UCL failure . In: ESPNFC.com . ( espnfc.com [accessed July 31, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Mircea Lucescu. July 23, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ End at Dynamo Kiev , report on sport1.de from July 27, 2020, accessed on August 6, 2020
  4. ↑ Mircea Lucescu ile sözleşme imzalandı - A Milli Takım Haber Detayları TFF. Retrieved August 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Lucescu new national coach of Turkey. Spiegel Online , August 2, 2017, accessed August 2, 2017 .
  6. ↑ tff.org: Mircea Lucescu'ya teşekkür ederiz , accessed on February 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lucescu, Mircea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest