Miodrag Belodedici
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| Date of birth | 20 May 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Socol, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Sweeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1978–1981 | Minerul Moldova Nouă | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1982 | Luceafărul București | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1988 | Steaua Bucureşti | 174 | (18) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1992 | Red Star Belgrade | 63 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Valencia | 49 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Valladolid | 31 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Villarreal | 16 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1998 | Atlante | 63 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2001 | Steaua Bucureşti | 61 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 457 | (28) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1982–1984 | Romania U21 | 16 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–2000 | Romania | 55 | (5) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Miodrag Belodedici (Romanian pronunciation: [beloˈdedit͡ʃʲ]; Serbian Миодраг Белодедић / Miodrag Belodedić; born 20 May 1964) is a Romanian retired footballer who played as a sweeper.
Nicknamed the deer due to his elegant tackles, he spent the majority of his 19-year professional career with Steaua Bucureşti (ten seasons), winning the European Cup with that team and Red Star Belgrade, thus becoming the first player to win the trophy with two clubs. He also played in Spain and Mexico.
Belodedici won more than 50 caps with Romania, representing the nation at the 1994 World Cup and two European Championships.
Belodedici was born in a family of Serbian ethnicity in the village of Socol, near the border with Serbia. He began playing organized football at the late age of 16.
Belodedici spoke only Serbian until elementary school, and completed his first four grades in that language. In the fifth he began learning Romanian, which he eventually mastered with the help from his Romanian junior national team team-mates Gheorghe Hagi and Gavril Balint. He joined the youth squad of Minerul Moldova Nouă in 1978, aged 14, his first coach being Olimp Mateescu; three years later he moved to Luceafărul București, a team created by the Romanian Football Federation for the purpose of gathering all talented young players in the country in one squad.
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