Angelo Niculescu (1 October 1921 – 20 June 2015) was a
Romania
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n
football
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player and manager.
He was the coach of the
Romania national football team
The Romania national football team ( ro, Echipa națională de fotbal a României) represents Romania in international men's football competition and is administered by the Romanian Football Federation ( ro, Federația Română de Fotbal), al ...
during the
1970 FIFA World Cup
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. He is best remembered in Romania for inventing the "temporizare" ("delaying") tactics in which the team keeps the possession of the ball inside its own half and the players are using many short passes from one side to another of the field in order to disrupt the opponents patience when they go out of their field to make pressing; this is also known as
tiki-taka
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.
With such tactics Romania qualified for a World Cup after more than 30 years and registered a win against
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
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.
Honours
Manager
Dinamo București
*
Divizia A
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:
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
,
1964–65
References
External links
Report about Angelo NiculescuAngelo Niculescu player profileat Labtof.ro
Angelo Niculescu manager profileat Labtof.ro
1921 births
2015 deaths
Sportspeople from Craiova
Romanian footballers
Liga I players
FC Carmen București players
Maccabi București players
FC Dinamo București players
Romanian football managers
1970 FIFA World Cup managers
FC Dinamo București managers
FC Steaua București managers
Romania national football team managers
FC Sportul Studențesc București managers
FCM Bacău managers
FC Universitatea Cluj managers
ASC Oțelul Galați managers
Association football midfielders
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