Costică_Ștefănescu

Costică Ștefănescu

Costică Ștefănescu

Romanian footballer and manager

Costică Ștefănescu (26 March 1951 – 20 August 2013) was a Romanian football player and coach who last managed Qatari side Al Shamal. He spent the majority of his career at FC Universitatea Craiova, where he made a club-record 378 appearances.[3] He is also the second all-time appearance leader in Liga I, having played in 490 matches.[4] In 1983, Ștefănescu was nominated for the Ballon d'Or.[5][6] He played for the Romania national team from 1977 to 1985, and was capped 66 times. In August 2013, after suffering from cancer for a long time, he committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of the military hospital in Bucharest.[7]

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Honours

Player

Steaua Bucharest

Universitatea Craiova

Individual

Coach

Al-Wakrah

Al-Jaish

Notes

  1. Including two appearances for Romania's Olympic team.[1][2]

References

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    "Costică Ștefănescu". European Football. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  2. [2]
    Costică Ștefănescu at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. [3]
    "Fotbal Club Universitatea Craiova". Archived from the original on 16 April 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  4. [4]
    "Romania – All-Time Most Matches Played in Divizia A". Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  5. [5]
    Pierrend, José Luis (1 February 2006). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1983". RSSSF. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  6. [6]
    "Dumitru Macri, primul fotbalist român nominalizat la Balonul de Aur! Gică Hagi, aproape de succes în 1994" [Dumitru Macri, the first Romanian footballer nominated for the Golden Ball! Gica Hagi, almost successful in 1994] (in Romanian). Fanatik.ro. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Former Romania captain Costica Stefanescu dies aged 62". The Guardian. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
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