Mircea Lucescu
Coaching Zenit in 2016
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Mircea Lucescu | ||
| Date of birth | 29 July 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Right winger | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Zenit Saint Petersburg (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1961–1963 | Școala Sportivă 2 București | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1963–1977 | Dinamo București | 250 | (57) |
| 1965–1967 | → Știința București (loan) | 39 | (12) |
| 1977–1982 | Corvinul Hunedoara | 111 | (21) |
| 1989–1990 | Dinamo București | 1 | (0) |
| 1963–1990 | Total | 401 | (90) |
| National team | |||
| 1966–1979 | Romania | 70 | (9) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1979–1980 | Corvinul Hunedoara | ||
| 1981–1986 | Romania | ||
| 1985–1990 | Dinamo București | ||
| 1990–1991 | Pisa | ||
| 1991–1996 | Brescia | ||
| 1996–1997 | Reggiana | ||
| 1997–1998 | Rapid București | ||
| 1998–1999 | Inter Milan | ||
| 1999–2000 | Rapid București | ||
| 2000–2002 | Galatasaray | ||
| 2002–2004 | Beşiktaş | ||
| 2004–2016 | Shakhtar Donetsk | ||
| 2016– | Zenit Saint Petersburg | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Mircea Lucescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a luˈt͡ʃesku]; born 29 July 1945) is a Romanian former footballer and manager of Russian Premier League side Zenit Saint Petersburg. He was named Romania Coach of the Year in 2004, 2010, 2012 and 2014, and Ukraine Coach of the Year in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. In 2013, Lucescu was awarded the Manager of the Decade award in Romania.
After coaching the Romanian national team, Lucescu had a long career in Italy, where he coached clubs such as Pisa, Brescia, Reggiana and Inter Milan. He won with Galatasaray the UEFA Super Cup against Real Madrid. Under Lucescu's managership, Galatasaray qualified to the quarter-finals in the UEFA Champions League in the 2000–01 season. In the quarter-finals, they lost to Real Madrid. The same year, he lost the Turkish League title to rivals Fenerbahçe. The next year, Galatasaray qualified to the second phase of the Champions League and won the Turkish League title under his managership. Lucescu was sacked at the end of the season, despite winning the league champion title, and was replaced by Fatih Terim.
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