Nicolae Pescaru (27 March 1943 – 25 May 2019) was a

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and

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, who worked mostly for Steagul Roșu Brașov.

Club career

Nicolae Pescaru was born on 27 March 1943 in

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. He started to play football at junior level in 1959 at Someșul Beclean, after one year moving at Progresul Făgăraș. He started to play senior football at Chimia Făgăraș in

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, afterwards transferring to Steagul Roșu Brașov where he made his

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debut on 23 September 1962 under coach

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in a 4–2 home victory against Știința Cluj. He spent a total of 19 seasons at Steagul of which about 13–14 of them he was the team's captain, being known for telling his teammates:"You have to defend the honor of being flagbearers!", the highlights of this period being a fourth place in the 1964–65 Divizia A season and 11 games played in European competitions in which he scored a goal in the 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 4–2 victory against

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and played in the 3–2 victory on aggregate against

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at the

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, also the club relegated twice to

, but Pescaru stayed with the club, helping it promote back to the first division each time. He played his last

match on 23 November 1980 in a 3–1 away loss against Progresul București, a competition in which he has a total of 311 appearances with 62 goals scored, thus being Steagul's leader of appearances and goals scored in the competition. He went to play one season for

team, Șoimii IPA Sibiu, after which he retired and became a junior coach, also coaching Steagul's senior team in two different periods, having a total of 70

matches as coach. Nicolae Pescaru died of

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on 25 May 2019 at age 76.

International career

Nicolae Pescaru played three friendly games at international level for

, making his debut under coach Angelo Niculescu, when he came as a substitute and replaced

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at half-time in a 2–0 loss against

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. His following two games were a 2–2 against

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and a 2–0 loss against the

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. Pescaru was a member of Steagul Roșu Brașov's "Mexican trio", alongside Stere Adamache and

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who were part of Romania's 1970 Mexico World Cup squad, but he did not play in the tournament. For the participation in that tournament he was decorated by

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on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" — (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.

Personal life

His father was also a footballer who played at Dinamo Brașov, advising Nicolae, when he was a child that if he should become a footballer, he should play for Steagul Roșu Brașov.

Honours

Steagul Roșu Brașov *

: 1968–69, 1979–80

Notes

References

External links

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Romania National Team 1970-1979 - Details
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