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Mircea Lucescu
Personal information
Full name Mircea Lucescu
Date of birth July 29, 1945 (1945-07-29) (age 63)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Playing position Manager (Former Striker)
Club information
Current club Shakhtar Donetsk
Youth clubs
Dinamo Bucureşti
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1963-1965
1965-1966
1966-1967
1967-1977
1977-1982 Dinamo Bucureşti
Ştiinţa Bucureşti
Politehnica Bucureşti
Dinamo Bucureşti
Corvinul Hunedoara 3 (0)
0 (0)
0 (0)
247 (57)
50 (9)
National team
Romania 74 (9)
Teams managed
1979-1980
1981-1985
1985-1990
1990-1991
1991-1996
1996-1997
1997-1998
1998-1999
2000-2002
2002-2004
2004- Corvinul Hunedoara
Romania
Dinamo Bucureşti
Pisa Calcio
Brescia Calcio
A.C. Reggiana
Rapid Bucureşti
Inter Milan
Galatasaray S.K.
Beşiktaş J.K.
Shakhtar Donetsk
1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)
Mircea Lucescu (born July 29, 1945, in Bucharest) is a former Romanian football player and one of the most successful Romanian football managers.
After coaching Romanian national team, and a long career in Italy. He had a brilliant start with Galatasaray, winning the European Super Cup against Real Madrid. Under Lucescu's managership, Galatasaray qualified to quarter finals in the UEFA Champions League in the 2000-01 season for the first time. In the quarter finals they lost to Real Madrid. The same year, he lost the Turkish League title to rivals Fenerbahçe.
Lucescu was disappointed to be sacked despite winning the league champion title. In June 2002, he signed a contract with rival Beşiktaş J.K.. It was a very important season for Beşiktaş since, in 2003, the reputable Turkish club was celebrating her 100th foundation year. In this atmospere, Beşiktaş made a great work under Lucescu's management. They won the Turkish title by having only one loss, and collecting 85 points; a record for Turkcell Super League as the maximum points collected in a season. So Beşiktaş was able to succeed by winning the championship in 2003, in their first century fest.
In the 2002-03 season, Beşiktaş reached the quarter final of the UEFA Cup, only to lose to Lazio. 2003-04 season started very well for Lucescu and Beşiktaş. The team could not qualify from a difficult Champions League group, but was able to get a ticket to UEFA Cup by holding the 3rd position in the group. In the second half of the season, the team's performance declined drastically. Lucescu could not stop the decline. He blamed Turkish Football Federation for one-sided decisions by the referees. After a disastrous second half, Lucescu decided to leave Turkey blaming that his championship was stolen.
He is currently the manager of Shakhtar Donetsk. His son, Răzvan Lucescu, is a former goalkeeper who managed FC Rapid Bucureşti, a team his father had previously managed. Coincidentally, Shakhtar and Rapid met in the group stage of the UEFA Cup in November 2005. Răzvan Lucescu is now managing FC Brasov.
[edit] Honours
[edit] Manager
Dinamo Bucureşti
Romanian League : 1989/1990
Romanian Cup : 1986 , 1990
Cup Winners Cup semifinal 1989-1990
Brescia Calcio
Serie B: 1991/1992
Anglo-Italian Cup: 1993-94
Galatasaray
European Supercup: 2000
UEFA Champions League quarter final: 2000/2001
Turkish Super League: 2001/2002
Beşiktaş
Turkish Super League: 2002/2003
UEFA Cup quarter final: 2002/2003
Shakhtar Donetsk
Ukrainian League: 2004/2005 , 2005/2006 , 2007/2008
Ukrainian Cup: 2008
Ukrainian Super Cup: 2005, 2008