Dumitru Macri (born 28 April 1931) is a Romanian former

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player and manager.

Club career

Dumitru Macri was born on 28 April 1931 in

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, Romania and started to play football in 1947 at junior level at Flacăra Roșie București, afterwards he went to play at senior level at

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, masking his

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debut on 19 March 1950 in a 0–0 against Știința Timișoara. He spent all of his career at

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which consisted of 15 seasons in which he was the club's captain between 1952 and 1966, the highlights of this period being the reaching of two

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finals in

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and

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which were lost in front of Arieșul Turda respectively Steaua București and the winning of the 1957 Cupa Primăverii and the

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. In 1961, Macri became the first Romanian footballer to be nominated for the

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. During his stay at

, the club relegated twice to

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, but Macri stayed with the club each time, helping it promote back to the first division. Macri made his last

appearance on 27 June 1965 in a 2–1 victory against Crișul Oradea, having a total of 221 matches and one goal scored in the competition.

International career

Macri played 8 games for

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, making his debut under coach

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on 26 October 1958 in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 loss against

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. His second game was a 3–0 victory against

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at the 1960 European Nations' Cup qualifiers, but his best game played for the national team is considered to be a 1–0 victory in a friendly against

after which a Turkish journalist who saw the game and also was one of the 19 journalists who sent nominations to ''

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'' for the

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, chose Macri on his list of nominees sent to the magazine. His last game played for the national team took place on 1 November 1962 in a 6–0 loss against

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at the 1964 European Nations' Cup qualifiers. He also appeared twice for Romania's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Olympics qualifiers.

Managerial career

Dumitru Macri was manager at CFR Timișoara,

and Olt Scornicești in

, also managing the Algerian national team from 1974 until 1975.

Personal life

Macri's family comes from Ampelochori, a small village near

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, Greece. He left Romania in 1986, moving to France with his son, an architect.

Honours

Club

Rapid București *

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runner-up: 1960–61, 1961–62 *

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: 1963–64 *Cupa Primăverii: 1957

Individual

(35th place)

Notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Macri, Dumitru 1931 births Living people Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers FC Rapid București players Men's association football defenders Liga I players Liga II players Romanian football managers FC Rapid București managers Algeria national football team managers Romanian expatriate football managers Romanian emigrants to France Expatriate football managers in Algeria Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Algeria Footballers from Bucharest