Adrian Lucaci (28 June 1966 – 12 April 2020) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, a ...

n footballer who played as a central defender. After he ended his playing career, he worked for a while as a

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

at teams from the

Arad County Arad County () is an administrative division ( judeţ) of Romania roughly translated into county in the western part of the country on the border with Hungary, mostly in the region of Crișana and few villages in Banat. The administrative cente ...

and president at clubs from the Romanian lower leagues. In 2019, Lucaci was rewarded by the local administration with the title of "excellence in sports" for outstanding sports activity and contribution to the development of football in the

. Since 2014 until his death in 2020 he was president of the Arad County Football Association (AJF Arad).

Honours

Steaua Bucureşti *

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: 1987–88

References

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