Costică Ștefănescu (Romanian pronunciation: [kostikə ʃtefənesku]) (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]
Honours
Player
Steaua Bucharest
Universitatea Craiova
Individual
- Romanian Footballer of the Year (runner-up): 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, (third place): 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984,
Coach
Al-Wakrah
- Qatar Sheikh Jassem Cup: 1991
Al-Jaish
- Syrian Cup: 2004
- AFC Cup: 2004
Notes
References
- ^ "Costică Ștefănescu". European Football. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ Costică Ștefănescu at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ "Fotbal Club Universitatea Craiova". Archived from the original on 16 April 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ "Romania – All-Time Most Matches Played in Divizia A". Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ Pierrend, José Luis (1 February 2006). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1983". RSSSF. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Former Romania captain Costica Stefanescu dies aged 62". The Guardian. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
External links
- Costică Ștefănescu at WorldFootball.net
- Costică Ștefănescu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
