Costică Ștefănescu (26 March 1951 – 20 August 2013) was a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n professional football player and coach. He spent the majority of his playing career at Universitatea Craiova, where he made a club-record 378 appearances. He is also the second all-time appearance leader in

Liga I Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

, having played in 490 matches. In 1983, Ștefănescu was nominated for the

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. He played for the

national team from 1977 to 1985, and was capped 66 times. In August 2013, he died after he jumped from the fifth floor at the hospital in

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, where he had been receiving treatment for cancer.

Honours

Player

Steaua Bucharest *

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: 1969–70, 1970–71 Universitatea Craiova *

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

: 1973–74, 1979–80, 1980–81 *

: 1976–77, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1982–83 Individual * Romanian Footballer of the Year runner-up: 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985

Coach

Al-Wakrah * Qatar Sheikh Jassem Cup: 1991 Al-Jaish * Syrian Cup: 2004 *

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stefanescu, Costica 1951 births Romanian men's footballers Romanian football managers Olympic footballers for Romania Romania men's international footballers Liga I players FCSB players FCSB managers FC Astra Giurgiu managers CSM Reșița managers FC Brașov (1936) players CS Universitatea Craiova players UEFA Euro 1984 players Expatriate football managers in Israel Expatriate football managers in Kuwait Expatriate football managers in Qatar Expatriate football managers in Syria Expatriate football managers in Saudi Arabia Al-Wakrah SC managers Al-Shamal SC managers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar Romanian expatriate football managers Najran SC managers Suicides by jumping in Romania FC Brașov (1936) managers FCM Bacău managers Men's association football central defenders 2013 suicides 2013 deaths Al-Tadamon SC (Kuwait) managers Kuwait Premier League managers Saudi Pro League managers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Syria Al-Wahda SC (Syria) managers Al-Jaish Damascus managers Footballers from Bucharest 20th-century Romanian sportsmen