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Victor Piţurcă (born 8 May 1956 in Orodel, Dolj County) is a former football striker, and former manager.

Piţurcă was one of the prolific strikers of Steaua Bucureşti, being one of the team’s top scorers – he scored 137 goals in 174 league games. During their European Cup winning season, Piţurcă scored five goals in nine games, including one of the fastest goals ever scored in an official football game – the goal scored in the 36th second of the game against Budapest Honvéd.He joined Universitatea Craiova as a youth in 1970, aged 14, and four years later he was loaned to Dinamo Slatina, a club from Romania’s Liga II, in order to gain more experience, before being called back to Craiova in 1975, making his debut for the team in November that year. As he was not used much by Universitatea, Piţurcă left the club in 1977 to join Pandurii Târgu Jiu and then FC Drobeta Turnu-Severin, from where he was signed by FC Olt, thus returning to play in Liga I. In 1983 he was requested by Steaua, helping the club to reach its highest peak in European football.Piţurcă won with Steaua the European Cup in 1986, the European Supercup in 1987, and was semifinalist in the same competition losing to Benfica in 1988. During the 1988-89 season the team reached again the European Cup final, but loses to Milan. As for domestic performances, Piţurcă won the championship with Steaua Bucureşti five times and the Romanian Cup four times.

At the end of the 1987-88 season he was the top scorer of Liga I and won UEFA’s Bronze Boot. A very funny moment happened in 1989 during the European Cup semifinal played by Steaua Bucureşti against Galatasaray in İzmir when the Turkish side’s goalkeeper relieved the ball hitting Piţurcă’s back and from there the ball went straight into the goal. However, the goal was not validated because the referee did not see what happened.On 25 March 2008 he was awarded the Ordinul „Meritul Sportiv” medal — (The Order „The Merit for Sports Achievement”) class II by the president of Romania, Traian Băsescu for his part in winning the of 1986 European Cup Final.After playing for Racing Club de Lens during the 1989-90 season, Piţurcă called it a day and retired from professional football to take over as coach. His first appointment was with Steaua Bucureşti in 1991, followed by another one with Universitatea Craiova in 1994, finishing second in the championship at the end of 1994-95 season.
In 1996 he was named coach of the Romania Under 21 side, leading the team to its best performances ever, including a qualification to the Under 21 European Championship in 1998, hosted by Romania.
In 1998 he was appointed as Romania’s manager and qualified the team to the 2000 European Football Championship. However, despite finishing the qualification group undefetead, Piţurcă was sacked before even taking his squad to the Euro 2000. The reason was an argument he had had with Romania’s best players, Gheorghe Hagi and Gheorghe Popescu, both managed by Ioan Becali. Becali was Piţurcă’s worst enemy because Piţurcă did not want to promote the players he managed to the national team, but he was great friends with Romanian Football Federation president Mircea Sandu.
In December 1999 he took over as manager of Steaua Bucureşti, winning the championship in 2001, but resigned in 2004 after an argument with the club’s chairman, Gigi Becali, who wanted to sack a player whom Piţurcă wanted to keep on the team.
In December 2004 he was appointed manager of Romania for the second time. At first Romania did well under his coaching, defeating several important European teams both in friendlies (Germany, Spain) and official matches (Czech Republic in Group 1 of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Qualification and the Netherlands in Group G of the UEFA 2008 Qualifying Round).
After topping their qualifying group (and thus qualifying for their first international tournament in 8 years), Romania was drawn in Group C at UEFA Euro 2008, alongside the Netherlands, Italy and France. At the time of the draw, these countries’ respective Elo rankings among European teams were 1st, 2nd, 4th and 8th, and as such the group has been dubbed the competition’s „group of death”. After drawing their first two games against the finalists of the previous World Cup (0-0 against France, 1-1 against Italy), Romania lost 0-2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition.
After EURO 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had an almost unprecedented slow start. In their first two official games after EURO 2008, Romania lost 0-3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1-0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped Romania qualify for the EURO 2008 missed these two matches, this was not accepted as a reasonable excuse for the extremely poor results by the Romanian media and public opinion. The next official match, against France, was considered decisive for Romania’s qualification chances. Despite managing only a 2-2 tie, the team’s performance was generally deemed satisfactory, and Piţurcă was offered one last chance to remain coach of the national team: to win both of the next two games in the qualifying group, against Serbia and Austria, within a four day timespan. Romania eventually lost both matches (2-3 on March 28, 2009 against Serbia at home, 1-2 on 1 April against Austria away).
Considering Romania’s extremely poor performances in 2008 and 2009, the Romanian Football Federation released Victor Piţurcă from his job from the Romania national football team on April 9, 2009.[2] A few weeks later, Răzvan Lucescu was appointed as his successor.

3 Comentarii la articolul “Victor Piţurcă”

  1. cbalm spune:

    In personalitati este si un articol in romaneste…

  2. bagaciosul spune:

    imi pare mult mai simplu sa dai un copy/paste..in romana, daca tot iti dai efortul ….!
    Victor Piţurcă
    Informații personale
    Nume complet Victor Pițurcă
    Data nașterii 8 mai 1956 (56 de ani)
    Locul nașterii Orodel, Dolj, România
    Înălțime 1,85 m
    Post în teren Atacant

    Victor Pițurcă (n. 8 mai 1956, Orodel, Dolj, România) este un fost fotbalist, actualmente selecționerul echipei naționale de fotbal
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  3. bagaciosul spune:

    Victor Piţurcă
    Informații personale
    Nume complet Victor Pițurcă
    Data nașterii 8 mai 1956 (56 de ani)
    Locul nașterii Orodel, Dolj, România
    Înălțime 1,85 m
    Post în teren Atacant

    Victor Pițurcă (n. 8 mai 1956, Orodel, Dolj, România) este un fost fotbalist, actualmente selecționerul echipei naționale de fotbal a României. Ca fotbalist, și-a petrecut mare parte din carieră la echipa Steaua București. A mai fost două ori selecționer, reușind să califice echipa de fiecare dată la turneele finale ale Campionatului European.
    Cariera de jucător

    Pițurcă a făcut inițial parte din lotul echipei Viitorul Scornicești ca apoi să fie transferat la marea echipă a Stelei, care în 1986 câștiga Cupa Campionilor Europeni, în premieră pentru un club din Estul Europei. A câștigat de asemenea Supercupa Europei la Steaua, după un meci din 1987 cu Dinamo Kiev.

    În sezonul 1987-1988, Victor Pițurcă a marcat 34 de goluri în Campionatul României și a câștigat trofeul „Gheata de Bronz” a Europei, fiind devansat de către turcul Tanju Çolak (Galatasaray Istanbul) – 39 de goluri, și de danezul John Eriksen (Servette Geneva) – 36 goluri.
    Cariera de antrenor

    Ca antrenor, a pregătit Universitatea Craiova, cu care a obținut locul 2 în campionat, apoi echipa națională de tineret Under 22 a României, cu care a reușit calificarea la Campionatul European din România din 1998.

    Numit selecționer al echipei naționale, a reușit calificarea la Campionatul European de fotbal din 2000, dar a fost demis în urma unui conflict cu unii jucători importanți ai naționalei, printre care Gheorghe Hagi.

    După aceea, a pregătit Steaua București cu care a obținut un titlu național, în sezonul 2000-2001. Datorită unui conflict cu patronul clubului, George Becali, Pițurcă a demisionat în 2002. În 2004 a fost numit din nou selecționer al echipei naționale de fotbal a României, cu care a reușit calificarea la Campionatul European de fotbal din 2008 (la 8 ani de la ultima calificare a acesteia la un turneu final), după ce a condus naționala română la prima sa victorie din istorie într-un meci împotriva Olandei. La turneul final Euro 2008, echipa antrenată de Pițurcă a făcut parte dintr-o grupă foarte puternică, pe care a terminat-o pe locul al treilea, după două egaluri cu Franța și Italia și o înfrângere în fața Olandei.

    Preliminariile Campionatului Mondial de fotbal din 2010 au început dezastruos pentru naționala condusă de Pițurcă, echipa suferind o înfrângere 0-3 cu Lituania, și reușind un egal cu Franța și o victorie la limită în Insulele Feroe. După ce primele două meciuri din primăvara lui 2009, contra Serbiei și Austriei s-au terminat și ele cu două înfrângeri, Pițurcă a fost demis pe 9 aprilie 2009 de la echipa națională a României.[1]

    În iunie 2010, Pițurcă a revenit la Steaua[2], preluând funcția de manager general. A schimbat din temelii lotul Stelei[3], dar după un început fast de sezon, cu două victorii în două meciuri, un nou record personal[4], a demisionat din funcție[5]. Pe 26 august 2010, Pițurcă a acceptat postul de manager al clubului FC Universitatea Craiova.[6] Pe 11 ianuarie 2011 a fost suspendat de către consiliul de administrație al echipei.[7]

    Pe 15 iunie 2011 a fost prezentat în funcția de selecționer al echipei naționale de fotbal a României la Casa Fotbalului. A fost a treia lui revenire la națională. Contractul intră în vigoare pe 1 iulie 2011.

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