Constantin "Costică" Rădulescu (17 April 1934 – 8 July 2002) was a Romanian

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Playing career

Constantin Rădulescu was born on 17 April 1934 in

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and started his playing career in 1948 at local club, Vulturii. In 1949 he moved to Dinamo Brașov where he stayed until 1958, in the last year the team was playing in

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. He then signed with Dinamo Bacău, a team for which he would play the rest of his career which ended in 1966 when he scored a hat-trick against Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea, a game he did not finish on the field as he suffered a commotion. Even though he was a fan of

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, he never got to play for them.

Managerial career

Constantin Rădulescu started his coaching career at Dinamo Bacău in 1966 at the request of his former coach,

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who left the team, managing to promote it from

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to Divizia A in his first year. While coaching Bacău, Rădulescu together with

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led them in the

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campaign where they eliminated

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, Skeid and Kilmarnock, reaching the quarter-finals where they were eliminated by Arsenal who would eventually win the competition. In 1974 during a match with

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, a general brawl ensued in which Rădulescu hit Dinamo's president Paul Moga who had previously cursed him and following that scandal, eight players were suspended, and Rădulescu was forbidden to coach any Divizia A or

team for three years, thus taking over the

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club, CS Botoșani where General Marin Dragnea promised him that he would lift his suspension if he promoted the team to

which he achieved. In 1975 he went to coach Politehnica Timișoara, finishing the first season on the 5th place and from 1977 until 1979 he worked as Angelo Niculescu's assistant, together being close to win the championship in the 1977–78 season but eventually finished on the 3rd position. After Niculescu left the club, he worked again as head coach but got replaced after 15 rounds with Ion "Jackie" Ionescu. In the following years, Rădulescu coached

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, CS Târgoviște and SC Bacău before arriving at Oțelul Galați in 1984 where he stayed for four years, earning a 4th place in the 1987–88 season which granted the team the qualification to the

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where they were eliminated in the first round by Juventus, however before the double with the Italians he was replaced with

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. He returned to Politehnica Timișoara in 1988 which was playing in

, promoting after one year and finished the next season on the 5th place which earned them a spot in the

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where they eliminated in the first round Atlético Madrid with 2–1 on aggregate, being eliminated in the next round by Sporting Lisabona. He left Politehnica in 1991 after a conflict with the players who were unsatisfied with his training methods but after two spells at Farul Constanța and Vega Caransebeș he returned at Politehnica which was again in

, helping it promote after one season having 14 points above the team from the second place,

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and in the

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season he started the championship well, including earning a 9–1 victory in the 5th round in front of Politehnica Iași but the following results were poorer and eventually he was dismissed. His last spell as coach was at

which he helped promote from

and led them in the

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campaign where they eliminated Divizia A teams Astra Ploiești and Naţional București, reaching the quarter-finals where they were eliminated by

, also during this period Rădulescu told his players his most famous quote about their football careers:"Everything passes, money passes, but these...these you should tell them to your children and grandchildren". Before a

game with

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he got a call from somebody who told him that 4 or 5 of his players got bribed to lose the game, the match ended with a 5–0 loss and he resigned from

and ended his career in which he has a total of 426 matches as a coach in Divizia A consisting of 176 victories 82 draws and 168 losses. Constantin Rădulescu died on 8 July 2002 at age 68 in

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after suffering from

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and in October 2019 a street from Timișoara was named after him.

Honours

Manager

Dinamo Bacău *

: 1966–67 CS Botoșani *

: 1974–75 Politehnica Timișoara *

: 1988–89, 1994–95 Oțelul Galați *

: 1985–86 UM Timișoara *

: 1996–97

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Radulescu, Constantin 1934 births 2002 deaths Romanian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Liga I players Liga II players Unirea Tricolor București players FCM Bacău players Romanian football managers FCM Bacău managers FC Politehnica Timișoara managers FCM Târgoviște managers ASC Oțelul Galați managers FCV Farul Constanța managers People from Comarnic Sportspeople from Prahova County