Dumitru "Mitică" Marcu (born 9 April 1950) is a

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n former professional

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and manager. Despite Marcu started his career at Steaua București, he remained as a legendary player of the first golden generation of Universitatea Craiova, nicknamed "The Champion of a Great Love", together with players such as:

Ion Oblemenco Ion Oblemenco (13 May 1945 – 1 September 1996) was a Romanian football striker who spent the majority of his career playing for Universitatea Craiova. He is the club's all-time top goalscorer with a total of 167 goals, and the club's stadium ...

, Petre Deselnicu,

Alexandru Boc Alexandru "Sandu" Boc (born 3 June 1946) is a retired Romanian footballer, who played as a defender. Club career Alexandru Boc was born on 3 June 1946 in Vașcău and played football as a defender, being known for using often the "Oxford proce ...

or Theodor Țarălungă, among others. Marcu scored 63 goals in 203 matches for the white and blues. After retirement, Marcu started his career as a manager, managing

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, several times and FC U Craiova. Between 2012 and 2016, Marcu was the sporting director of

FC Gloria Buzău FC Gloria Buzău (), commonly known as Gloria Buzău, is a Romanian association football club based in Buzău. The club currently plays in the Liga II. History Establishment FC Gloria Buzău was founded on 16 June 1973, by the Buzău County Loc ...

International career

Dumitru Marcu played in 16 matches for

and scored 3 goals.

Honours

Player

Universitatea Craiova *

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: 1973–74, 1979–80 *

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: 1977–78, 1978–79

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