Dumitru Moraru (born 8 May 1956) is a Romanian former professional

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who played as a

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from 1972 until 1991.

Club career

Dumitru Moraru was born in București, growing up in the Pantelimon neighborhood, where he started playing football in 1966 at the junior teams of Metalul București, where he earned the nickname "Țețe" (Tsetse) after a teammate told him in a cantonment that he sleeps so much as he would have been bitten by a

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. In two seasons spent at Metalul's senior team, he played 56 games in

Divizia B The Liga 2, most often spelled as Liga II, is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name from Divizia B just before the start of the 2006–07. It is currently sponsored by Casa Pariurilor, a betting c ...

, after which he went to play for Steaua București. He made his Divizia A debut on 25 August 1974, playing for Steaua in a

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against

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, which ended with a 2–0 loss. He played 24 games in the

1975–76 Divizia A The 1975–76 Divizia A was the fifty-eighth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Teams League table Results Top goalscorers Champion squad See also * 1975–76 Divizia B * 1975–76 Divizia C * 1975– ...

season and 26 in the 1977–78 season, helping Steaua win the title in each of those seasons, also winning the

1975–76 Cupa României The 1975–76 Cupa României was the 38th edition of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. The title was won by Steaua București against CSU Galaţi. Format The competition is an annual knockout tournament. First round proper ...

. He went to play three seasons for Sportul Studențesc București where he won the

1979–80 Balkans Cup The 1979–80 Balkans Cup was an edition of the Balkans Cup, a football competition for representative clubs from the Balkan states. It was contested by 5 teams and Sportul Studențesc won the trophy. Group A ---- ---- ---- Group B -- ...

. Moraru was transferred by Sportul Studențesc at

in 1981, where he played 31 league games in each of his first three seasons as the club won the title in all of them and was the team's captain in the

1983–84 European Cup The 1983–84 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for a fourth time by Liverpool in a penalty shootout in the final against Roma. The game had finished 1–1. Phil Neal had scored for Liverpool and Roberto Pruzzo for Rom ...

season as the club reached the semi-finals, playing 8 games in the campaign. After 8 seasons spent at Dinamo with three Divizia A titles and three Cupa României won, Moraru alongside teammates

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and Alexandru Nicolae were transferred to

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, but only for a short while, after which he went to play in

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, amassing a total of 41 league appearances over the course of two seasons, after which he ended his career, a career in which he made a total of 393 appearances in Divizia A and 33 in European competitions.

International career

Dumitru Moraru played 38 games for

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, making his debut on 24 September 1975 under coach

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in a 1–1 against

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at the

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. He played one game at each of the 1978 and 1982 World Cup qualifiers, also making three appearances at the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers, being used by coach

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in a 1–0 loss against

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in the group stage of the

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. Moraru played one game at the 1986 World Cup qualifiers and one at the Euro 1988 qualifiers, making his last appearance for the national team on 30 March 1988 in a friendly which ended 3–3 against

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Honours

Steaua București * Divizia A: 1975–76, 1977–78 * Cupa României: 1975–76 Sportul Studențesc București * Balkans Cup: 1979–80 Dinamo București * Divizia A: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84 * Cupa României: 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86

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References

External links

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Romania National Team 1970–1979 – Details

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moraru, Dumitru 1956 births Living people Romanian footballers Romania international footballers Olympic footballers of Romania Romanian expatriate footballers UEFA Euro 1984 players Liga I players Liga II players Faur București players FC Steaua București players FC Sportul Studențesc București players FC Dinamo București players IK Start players Expatriate footballers in Norway Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Eliteserien players Association football goalkeepers Footballers from Bucharest