Dudu Georgescu (born 1 September 1950) is a retired

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who played as a

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and a former

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Club career

Dudu Georgescu was born in

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on 1 September 1950. He started his career at Progresul București, making his

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debut in a 3–0 victory against Universitatea Craiova in which he played as a

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. After playing for

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in the first two leagues for a few years, he went to play for a short while at

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, where he scored 7 goals in 12

games, including a double in a 4–1 victory against

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, which convinced The Red Dogs to transfer him. His

spell, consisted of 10

seasons in which he won four league titles in which he was the team's top goalscorer in the first three and one cup in which he scored two goals in the 1982 final which ended with a 3–2 victory against

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. Georgescu also made some notable individual performances as being four consecutive times from 1975 until 1978 the

top goalscorer, winning also the

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in 1975 (33 goals) and 1977 (47 goals) for the top goalscorer of Europe. Georgescu won the

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award in 1976 and was nominated three times for the

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. With 207 goals scored (including 9 in the

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against Steaua București) in 260

matches, Georgescu is

's all time leading goalscorer, he also played 23 matches and scored 17 goals in European competitions for the club. After his period spent at

, Georgescu went to play for

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, Gloria Buzău and

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, obtaining a record of 252 goals scored in 371

games. Georgescu ended his career in 1988 after playing two seasons in

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for Muscelul Câmpulung and

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International career

Dudu Georgescu played 40 matches and scored 21 goals for

(44/21 including Romania's Olympic team games), making his debut on 14 September 1973 under coach

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's biggest ever victory, a 9–0 against

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, in which he scored one goal at the 1974 World Cup qualifiers. He scored four goals in five matches at the Euro 1976 qualifiers, made three appearances in which he scored two goals at the

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, played four games and scored two goals at the 1978 World Cup qualifiers, two appearances and two goals scored in a 2–2 against

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at the Euro 1980 qualifiers and made one appearance at each of the 1982 World Cup qualifiers and the 1984 Euro qualifiers. Georgescu's last game for the national team was a friendly which ended with a 1–0 victory against

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International goals

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Georgescu goal''.

Honours

Club

Progresul București *

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: 1969–70 Dinamo București *

: 1974–75, 1976–77, 1981–82, 1982–83 *

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: 1981–82

Individual

top scorer: 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78 *

: 1974–75, 1976–77 *

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(10th place),

1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...

(15th place),

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

(9th place) *

: 1976 *Top Dinamo București scorer in

: 207 goals *Most goals scored in

: 252 goals

References

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