Radu Nunweiller (born 16 November 1944) is a former Romanian central midfield football player and manager.

Club career

Radu Nunweiller was born in

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on 16 November 1944. He had an

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father named Johann Nunweiller, who settled in

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after

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where he met his wife, Rozina, later they moved from

. He had six brothers, the oldest one of them, Constantin was a

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player and the other five: Dumitru,

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, Lică, Victor and Eduard were footballers, each of them having at least one spell at

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, they are the reason why the club's nickname is "The Red Dogs". Radu made his

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debut, playing for

Viitorul București Viitorul București (''English: "Viitorul" = Future'') was a Romanian football club from the capital of Romania, Bucharest. History Viitorul București was founded in the summer of 1962 and consisted of the Romanian national youth team, who had ...

on 21 October 1962 in a 4–2 loss against Steaua București. After playing only one

match for

, Nunweiller went to play for

where he would spend most of his career, winning five

titles and two

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, also appearing in 22 matches in which he scored 7 goals in European Cup competitions. Radu Nunweiller ended his career after playing three seasons for

Corvinul Hunedoara Clubul Sportiv Corvinul 1921 Hunedoara, commonly known as Corvinul Hunedoara or simply as Corvinul, is a Romanian football club based in Hunedoara, Hunedoara County, currently playing in the Liga III. Founded in 1921 under the name of ''Fero Spo ...

, having a total of 333 appearances and 40 goals scored in

International career

Radu Nunweiller played 41 matches and scored 2 goals for

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(42/2 including Romania's Olympic team games), making his debut on 21 September 1966 under coach

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in a friendly which ended with a 2–0 loss against

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. He played one game at the 1968 Euro qualifiers and three games at the successful 1970 World Cup qualifiers, also being used by coach

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in all the minutes of the three group matches from the

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did not advance to the next stage. He played 9 matches and scored one goal at the 1972 Euro qualifiers, managing to reach the quarter-finals where

was defeated by

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, who advanced to the

. Nunweiller played 5 games and scored one goal at the 1974 World Cup qualifiers, two games at the Euro 1976 qualifiers where he made his last appearance for the national team on 17 April 1975 in a 1–1 against

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. For representing his country at the 1970 World Cup, Nunweiller was decorated by President of Romania

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

International goals

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

Managerial career

After he ended his playing career in 1979, Nunweiller ran away from Romania's communist regime, at that time running away from the country being illegal, going to Switzerland where he worked as manager and assistant manager at various clubs. He obtained a promotion to the

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with Yverdon-Sport, had a short experience in the

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season, consisting of 7 games (2 victories, 1 draw, 4 losses) with

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, also being

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's manager in a

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game which ended with a 4–1 loss against

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Honours

Player

Dinamo București *

: 1963–64, 1964–65, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75 *

: 1963–64, 1967–68

Manager

Yverdon-Sport *

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: 2004–05

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nunweiller, Radu 1944 births Living people Footballers from Bucharest Romanian footballers Romanian people of Austrian descent Olympic footballers of Romania Romania international footballers Romanian football managers Romanian expatriate football managers Liga I players CS Corvinul Hunedoara players FC Dinamo București players Association football midfielders 1970 FIFA World Cup players FC Martigny-Sports managers FC Lausanne-Sport managers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate football managers in Switzerland Étoile Carouge FC managers Yverdon-Sport FC managers Neuchâtel Xamax FCS managers FC UTA Arad managers Romanian defectors