Florin Răducioiu
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Florin Valeriu Răducioiu | ||
Date of birth | 17 March 1970 | ||
Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) |
Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
1978–1986 | Dinamo București | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1986–1990 | Dinamo București | 76 | (29) |
1990–1991 |
Bari | 30 | (5) |
1991–1992 |
Hellas Verona | 30 | (2) |
1992–1993 | Brescia | 29 | (13) |
1993–1994 |
AC Milan | 7 | (2) |
1994–1998 | Espanyol | 56 | (19) |
1996 | → West Ham United (loan) | 11 | (2) |
1997–1998 | → VfB Stuttgart (loan) | 19 | (4) |
1998–2000 | Brescia | 37 | (5) |
2000 | Dinamo București | 8 | (1) |
2001–2002 | Monaco | 12 | (2) |
2004 | Créteil | 9 | (1) |
Total | 324 | (85) | |
International career | |||
1989–1990 | Romania U21 | 9 | (3) |
1990–1996 | Romania | 40 | (21) |
Managerial career | |||
2007 | Dinamo București (sporting director) | ||
2012–2013 | Romania U15 | ||
2013–2014 | Romania U16 | ||
2014–2015 | Romania U17 | ||
2017–2018 | Regal Sport București (technical director) | ||
2022 | Dinamo București (team manager) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Florin Valeriu Răducioiu (born 17 March 1970) is a Romanian former professional
He is known as the first footballer who played and scored at least a single goal at all of the Big Five leagues.
Club career
Răducioiu was a product of Dinamo București. Mircea Lucescu, former Dinamo coach, saw his skills and, as a feature of his philosophy towards football to promote young players, gave Răducioiu the chance to play at the highest level at the age of 17 years.
By the beginning of 1988–89, Răducioiu was first-choice in Lucescu's team. He made an impressive debut in European football by reaching the quarterfinals of the
After three seasons in
Having scored his country's only goal in
Răducioiu retired in 2004, after a short stint with modest French side US Créteil-Lusitanos. He had a short spell as a sports agent and as sporting director at Dinamo Bucharest.[2]
He is one of the four professional football players (alongside
International career
Răducioiu debuted for the Romania national team in a friendly game against Israel on 25 April 1990, playing for 58 minutes before he was replaced. Răducioiu made his
The year 1993 would be significantly more successful for Răducioiu internationally, as he scored two goals against Czechoslovakia in Košice, even though Romania lost 5–2. Răducioiu's second goal came in the 55th minute, to tie the game at 2–2. However, Slovak player Peter Dubovsky scored a second half hat-trick to beat Romania. His first goal came just four minutes after Răducioiu's second, and in the final eight minutes, Dubosky scored twice to win the game, even though the Czechoslovak had had two players sent off.
An even greater success for Răducioiu would come three months later when in Toftir, he managed to score all four of Romania's goals against the Faroe Islands, becoming the first Romanian player to score four goals for the Romania national team in modern times, a record equaled only by Gheorghe Popescu in 1997 against Liechtenstein.
Răducioiu also scored a penalty kick against
At the World Cup finals, Răducioiu scored two goals against
At the UEFA Euro 1996, as Romania lost all three group stage matches, Răducioiu netted the nation's only goal, in a 2–1 loss against Spain. Overall he won 40 caps between April 1990 and June 1996.[9]
Career statistics
International
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Romania | 1990 | 10 | 1 |
1991 | 5 | 1 | |
1992 | 2 | 1 | |
1993 | 4 | 8 | |
1994 | 12 | 5 | |
1995 | 3 | 4 | |
1996 | 4 | 1 | |
Total | 40 | 21 |
- Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Răducioiu goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 5 December 1990 | Stadionul Naţional, Bucharest , Romania |
San Marino | 3–0 | 6–0 | UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying |
2 | 27 March 1991 | Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle , San Marino |
San Marino | 2–1 | 3–1 | UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying |
3 | 29 November 1992 | Neo GSZ Stadium, Larnaca , Cyprus |
Cyprus | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification |
4 | 2 June 1993 | Všešportový areál, Košice, Slovakia | RCS | 1–1 | 2–5 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) |
5 | 2–2 | |||||
6 | 8 September 1993 | Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands | Faroe Islands | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) |
7 | 2–0 | |||||
8 | 3–0 | |||||
9 | 4–0 | |||||
10 | 13 October 1993 | Stadionul Ghencea, Bucharest, Romania | Belgium | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) |
11 | 17 November 1993 | Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff, Wales | Wales | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) |
12 | 18 June 1994 | Rose Bowl, Pasadena, United States | Colombia | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1994 FIFA World Cup |
13 | 3–1 | |||||
14 | 10 July 1994 | Stanford Stadium, Stanford, United States | Sweden | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1994 FIFA World Cup |
15 | 2–1 | |||||
16 | 7 September 1994 | Stadionul Ghencea, Bucharest, Romania | Azerbaijan | 3–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying |
17 | 29 March 1995 | Stadionul Ghencea, Bucharest, Romania | Poland | 1–1 | 2–1 | UEFA Euro 1996 Qualifying |
18 | 26 April 1995 | Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon, Turkey | Azerbaijan | 1–0 | 4–1 | UEFA Euro 1996 Qualifying |
19 | 3–1 | |||||
20 | 4–1 | |||||
21 | 18 June 1996 | Elland Road, Leeds, England | Spain | 1–1 | 1–2 | UEFA Euro 1996 |
Honours
Dinamo București
AC Milan
- Serie A: 1993–94
- Supercoppa Italiana: 1993
- UEFA Champions League: 1993–94
- Intercontinental Cup runner-up: 1993
VfB Stuttgart
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup runner-up: 1997–98
References
- RSSSF.com. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Florin Radicioiu". www.whufc.com. 8 August 2009. Archived from the original on 14 November 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ^ "West Ham 2 – 2 Manchester United". 4TheGame. 8 December 1996. Retrieved 25 November 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Redknapp seeks new order from chaos". The Independent. 16 September 2000. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ Wood, Greg (27 November 1996). "Cavaco counts his blessings". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
- ^ Szreter, Adam (28 December 1996). "Sunderland in need of help". The Independent. London. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
- ^ Woodward, Guy (14 February 2003). "The Knowledge: major league players". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
- ^ When Romania broke Welsh hearts, Dafydd Pritchard / Chris Wathan, BBC Sport, 17 November 2023
- RSSSF.com. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
External links
- Florin Răducioiu at WorldFootball.net
- Florin Răducioiu at National-Football-Teams.com
- Florin Răducioiu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)