Marcel Răducanu

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Marcel Răducanu
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Răducanu in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1954-10-21) 21 October 1954 (age 67)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Youth career
Steaua București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972–1981 Steaua București 229 (94)
1982–1988 Borussia Dortmund 163 (31)
1988–1990 FC Zürich 47 (12)
Total 439 (137)
National team
1976–1981 Romania[a] 21 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Marcel Răducanu (born 21 October 1954) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder for Steaua București, Borussia Dortmund, FC Zürich and the Romania national team. His uncle, Marin Voinea was also a footballer.[3]

Răducanu was honoured as Romanian Footballer of the Year in 1980, also in the same year he was nominated for the Ballon d'Or.[4][5]

Club career[]

Răducanu was born in Bucharest. After playing for Steaua București in the 1970s, where he won just two championships (in nine seasons) and also two Romanian Cups, he defected following a match in Dortmund, West Germany in 1981.[6] In his native Romania this act was considered a desertion, as he was a captain in the Army. Therefore, he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison in his absence.[6]

Once in West Germany he signed with both Hannover 96 and Borussia Dortmund clubs, and as a result was suspended by UEFA for one year.[7] In order to have his services, Borussia Dortmund paid half a million deutschmarks to the Hannover club, and Răducanu made his debut in Bundesliga in 1982. Between 1982 and 1988, he played a total of 163 games in the Bundesliga and scored 31 goals.[8] In 1988 Raducanu signed a contract in Switzerland at FC Zürich where he played 47 matches, scoring 12 goals and winning promotion to the top league Nationalliga A via the playoffs with FC Zürich.[9]

International career[]

Between 1976 and 1981, he played 18 games for the Romania national team, during which he scored three goals.[1][10] He played nearly 80 matches scoring many goals for Romania's Under-16, U-18, national youth sides, respectively for the U-21 and U-23, also made two appearances for the Olympic team.

Post-playing career[]

Răducanu retired from football in 1990. Since 1994, he has run a football school in Dortmund. Mario Götze trained at his academy when he was 10 years old.[11]

Honours[]

Club[]

Steaua București

Romania

Individual

Notes[]

  1. ^ Including three appearances for Romania's Olympic team.[1][2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Marcel Răducanu". European Football. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  2. ^ Marcel Răducanu at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. ^ "Marcel Răducanu, artistul-fotbalist fugit în Germania pe timpul lui Ceaușescu: dribla tot ce-i ieșea în cale!" [Marcel Răducanu, the footballing artist who fled to Germany during Ceausescu's time: he dribbled everything that came his way!] (in Romanian). Elitaromaniei.ro. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b Pierrend, José Luis (1 February 2006). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1980". RSSSF. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  5. ^ a b "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.
  6. ^ a b Gieselmann, Dirk (2 April 2008). "Wir kriegen dich, Verbrecher!" (in German). Der Westen. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  7. ^ "Marcel Raducan" (in German). bvb-freunde.de. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Marcel Raducanu" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  9. ^ "Marcel Raducanu" (in German). dbFCZ. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  10. ^ Siminiceanu, Radu (6 April 2003). "Romania National Team 1980–1989 – Details". RSSSF. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  11. ^ "Die Dortmund-Legende über seine Entdeckung" (in German). Bild.de. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
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