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Mircea Lucescu

Mircea Lucescu is known for Romanian football player and manager. Mircea Lucescu was born on 29 July 1945.

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Mircea Lucescu is best known for Romanian football player and manager. Mircea Lucescu is a Romanian public figure. Mircea Lucescu was born on 29 July 1945, which places Mircea Lucescu among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1940s. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Mircea Lucescu is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

Facts

Known for: Romanian football player and manager
Nationality: Romanian
Born: 29 July 1945

About Mircea Lucescu

Lucescu was one of the most successful footballers of the Romanian league championship, having won all seven of his titles with Dinamo București between 1964 and 1990. He also had spells at Știința București and Corvinul Hunedoara, and made 64 appearances for the Romania national team, which he captained at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. In the next five decades, he went on coach various sides in Romania, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine, and Russia. He was widely regarded for his twelve-year stint in charge of Shakhtar Donetsk, where he became the most successful coach in the club's history by winning eight Ukrainian Premier League titles, six Ukrainian Cups, seven Ukrainian Super Cups, and the 2008–09 UEFA Cup. He also won trophies in Ukraine with Shakhtar's rival Dynamo Kyiv, as well as Romanian titles with Dinamo București and Rapid București, and Turkish Süper Lig titles with Galatasaray and Beşiktaş. Lucescu was named Romania Coach of the Year in 2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2021, and Ukraine Coach of the Year in 2006 and for seven consecutive years from 2008 to 2014. In 2013, he was awarded the Manager of the Decade award in Romania, and in 2015 became the fifth person to coach in 100 UEFA Champions League matches, joining Alex Ferguson, Carlo Ancelotti, Arsène Wenger, and José Mourinho.

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Mircea Lucescu is known for Romanian football player and manager.

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Mircea Lucescu was born on 29 July 1945.

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Mircea Lucescu's nationality is Romanian.

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