Victor Pițurcă

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Victor Pițurcă
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Victor Pițurcă (2014)
Personnel
Surname Victor Pițurcă
birthday May 8, 1956
place of birth OrodelRomania
size 185 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1970-1974 FC Universitatea Craiova
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1974-1975 Dinamo Slatina ? 00(?)
1975-1977 FC Universitatea Craiova 8 00(0)
1977-1988 Pandurii Târgu Jiu ? 00(?)
1978-1979 CSM Drobeta Turnu Severin ? 00(?)
1979-1983 FC Olt Scorniceşti 118 0(28)
1983-1989 Steaua Bucharest 175 (137)
1989-1990 RC Lens 28 00(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1985-1987 Romania 13 00(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1991 Steaua Bucharest (assistant coach)
1992 Steaua Bucharest
1994-1995 FC Universitatea Craiova
1996-1998 Romania U21
1998-1999 Romania
1999-2002 Steaua Bucharest
2002-2004 Steaua Bucharest
2004-2009 Romania
2010 Steaua Bucharest
2011-2014 Romania
2014-2015 Ittihad FC
2015-2016 Ittihad FC
1 Only league games are given.

Victor "Piți" Pițurcă (born May 8, 1956 in Orodel , Dolj district ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach . As a player, he played 301 games in the highest Romanian football league, Divizia A , and scored 165 goals.

Career as a football player

Victor Pițurcă started playing football at Universitatea Craiova at the age of 14 . In order to come to match practice, Picurcă was loaned to Dinamo Slatina in the second-rate Divizia B as an 18-year-old at the beginning of the 1974/75 season. After a year he returned to Craiova and became a member of the first team. He made his debut in Divizia A on November 19, 1975. This was only one of the few inserts of Pițurcă for Uni Craiova. Since he was little considered, he moved again in 1977 to Divizia B to Pandurii Târgu Jiu . After relegation at the end of the season, he joined the league competitor CSM Drobeta Turnu Severin in 1978 , but could not avoid relegation here either.

Despite the lack of sporting success, FC Olt Scorniceşti became aware of Pițurcă, who had just been promoted to Divizia A. At FC Olt he made the leap to a regular player and he played a key role in ensuring that Olt initially held the class and was able to place in the front midfield in the following years without qualifying for the European Cup . After moving to Steaua Bucharest in 1983, Pițurcă finally achieved the breakthrough and celebrated his greatest successes with Steaua. By 1989 he was able to win five championships and four cup wins. The highlight of his career was winning the European Cup in 1986, where he was replaced before the decisive penalty shoot-out . In 1989 he reached the final again with Steaua , but lost to AC Milan .

Then Pițurcă was allowed to move abroad and joined the RC Lens , who played in Ligue 2 at the time . There he ended his career in 1990.

National team

Although Pițurcă was one of the most successful scorers in Divizia A in the mid-1980s, he only played 13 games for the Romanian national soccer team . He made his debut on March 27, 1985 against Poland . His last international match was against Austria on November 18, 1987 .

Career as a coach

After the end of his active career, Pițurcă began his career as a coach. After initially working under Emerich Jenei as assistant coach of Steaua Bucharest in the 1991/92 season , he became head coach after his dismissal during the winter break and won his first title with the 1992 cup . Nevertheless, he was replaced after the end of the season by Anghel Iordănescu .

In 1994 Pițurcă took over his hometown club Universitatea Craiova as a coach, where he won the runner- up in 1995 . He was then replaced by Sorin Cârțu . In 1996 he took over the U21 national team . After the successful qualification for the U-21 European Football Championship in 1998 , it took place in Romania, where the team only finished last after defeats against the Netherlands , Germany and Russia . After the resignation of Anghel Iordănescu as coach of the Romanian national team after the 1998 World Cup , Pițurcă was appointed national coach. He successfully led the national team through the qualification for the European Championship in 2000 , but resigned from his post in 1999 after differences with two of the best Romanian national players, Gheorghe Hagi and Gheorghe Popescu .

Shortly before Christmas 1999, Pițurcă took over his former club Steaua Bucharest , with whom he won the Romanian championship in 2001. After the unsuccessful defense of his title, he was released at the end of the 2001/02 season . Since his successor Cosmin Olăroiu had a bad start to the 2002/03 season , Pițurcă returned to Steaua in autumn 2002. After two runners-up championships, he was released again in 2004 and was appointed national coach for the second time in December 2004. After failing to qualify for the 2006 World Cup , he confidently led the national team to the 2008 European Championship . In April 2009 he was sacked after a series of weak internationals.

In July 2010 he was introduced as the new coach at Steaua Bucharest . After he had accepted numerous former teammates from his active time in the coaching staff and 14 new players had been bought, he gave up his post only a few weeks later, on August 6, 2010. The cause were disputes with George Becali , the club's patron. On August 26, 2010, Pițurcă took over the position of general manager at Universitatea Craiova. After persistent disagreements with Adrian Mititelu , the club's patron, his contract was terminated on January 11, 2011.

On June 15, 2011, Mircea Sandu officially announced that Pițurcă would again be the national coach of Romania from July 1, 2011. In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup , his team finished second in Group D behind the Netherlands . In the subsequent play-offs against Greece , however, participation in the World Cup was missed. The start of qualifying for EURO 2016 went well. After three match days Romania ranked unbeaten in second place in the table in Group F. Nevertheless, Pițurcă voluntarily took his hat and terminated the cooperation with the Romanian Football Association .

successes

As a player

  • European champion cup: 1986
  • European Supercup winner: 1987
  • Finalist in the European Champions Cup: 1989
  • World Cup finalist: 1986
  • Romanian champions: 1985 , 1986 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989
  • Romanian Cup Winner: 1985 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989
  • Romanian top scorer: 1988
  • Bronze Shoe Winner: 1988
  • 29 European Cup matches (6 goals)

As a trainer

  • Participants in the U21 European Championship: 1998
  • European Championship qualification: 2000 , 2008
  • Romanian champion: 2001
  • Romanian Super Cup winner: 2001
  • Romanian runner-up: 1995 , 2003 , 2004
  • Romanian Cup Winner: 1992

relationship

Victor is the father of the football player Alexandru Pițurcă (born October 28, 1983), who has been with FC Universitatea Craiova since 2010 .

Individual evidence

  1. Gazeta Sporturilor of August 8, 2010 , accessed November 29, 2010 (Romanian)
  2. Prosport from August 27, 2010 , retrieved (Romanian) 28 August 2010
  3. fcuniversitatea.ro of January 12, 2011 , accessed on January 23, 2011 (Romanian)
  4. Prosport of 16 June 2011 , retrieved (Romanian) 19 June 2011
  5. ^ Piţurcă announces farewell. In: fussball-em-total.de. FOOTBALL EM-total, October 17, 2014, accessed on October 17, 2014 .
  6. Golden Boot ("Soulier d'Or") Awards , accessed on August 16, 2013 (English)

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