Marcel Răducanu

Marcel Răducanu

Personal information
Date of birth	21 October 1954 (1954-10-21) (age 57)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Attacking midfielder
Youth career
	Steaua Bucureşti
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1972-1981	Steaua Bucureşti	229	(94)
1982-1988	Borussia Dortmund	163	(31)
1988-1990	FC Zürich	47	(12)
Total		439	(137)
National team
1976–1981	Romania	21	(3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Marcel Răducanu (born 21 October 1954 in Bucharest, Romania) is a former football player who played for Steaua Bucureşti, Borussia Dortmund, FC Zürich and the Romanian national team.

Between 1976 and 1981 he played 21 games for Romanian national team, during which he scored three goals.^[1] 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, being the team's best all-around player and also made two appearances for the Olympic team.

In 1980 he was voted as the best Romanian football player.

After playing for Steaua Bucureşti in the '70s, when he won two championships and also two Romanian Cups, Răducanu defected following a match in Dortmund, West Germany in 1981.^[2] In his native Romania this act was considered a desertion, as he was a Captain in the Romanian army. Therefore he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison in his absence.^[2]

Once in Germany he signed with both Hannover 96 and Borussia Dortmund clubs, and as a result was suspended by UEFA for one year.^{[citation needed]} 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 German federal league and scored 31 goals.^[3] He also spent time in Switzerland at FC Zürich where he played until his retirement.^[4]

Răducanu retired from football in 1990. Since 1994 he has run a football school in Dortmund.

Honours

Steaua Bucureşti

• Romanian League: 1976, 1978
• Romanian Cup: 1976, 1979

Romania

• Balkan Cup: 1980

Individual

Romanian Footballer of the Year: 1980

References

1. ^ Siminiceanu, Radu (2003-04-06). "Romania National Team 1980-1989 - Details". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesr/roem-intres80.html. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Gieselmann, Dirk (2008-04-02). "Marcel Raducanu im Interview: "Wir kriegen dich, Verbrecher!"" (in German). Der Western. http://www.derwesten.de/sport/fussball/11-freunde/Wir-kriegen-dich-Verbrecher-id1690524.html. 
3. ^ "Marcel Raducanu" (in German). Fussball Daten. http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/raducanumarcel/. Retrieved 2010-02-12. 
4. ^ Marcel Raducanu Records and statistics from FC Zürich (German)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Anghel Iordănescu	Steaua Top Scorer 1978–1979 1979–1980 1980–1981	Succeeded by Anghel Iordănescu

Persondata
Name	Raducanu, Marcel
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	21 October 1954
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Date of death
Place of death