Lică Stavarache Movilă (born 21 October 1961) is a Romanian former footballer, who played primarily as a

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Club career

Lică Movilă was born in

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on 21 October 1961 and made his

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debut on 21 June 1981 for SC Bacău in a 5–2 loss against Argeș Pitești. He spent three seasons with SC Bacău and midway through the 1982–83 season, he was transferred to

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. In his first two seasons at Dinamo București he won the title, under the guidance of coach Nicolae Dumitru appearing in 16 matches with four goals scored in the first one and making 19 appearances with one goal in the second. During his period spent with '' The Red Dogs'', Movilă also won two

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, at the 2–1 victory over

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Steaua București in the final from

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, coach Nicolae Dumitru did not use him but in the one from

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, coach

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used him all the minutes in the 1–0 win with the same team who had recently just won the

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. Movilă played 16 games in which he scored two goals in European competitions, appearing in seven games in which he scored one goal against Kuusysi Lahti in the

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season, as the club eliminated title holders

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in the campaign, the team managing to reach the semi-finals where in the first leg against

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he got a punch from

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that broke his jaw but Souness did not receive the red card because the referee did not see the incident. After six seasons at Dinamo, Movilă spent a season each with of Flacăra Moreni and Universitatea Cluj, at the latter making his last Divizia A appearance on 14 April 1990 in a 2–1 away loss with Jiul Petroșani, reaching a total of 199 matches played with 23 goals scored in the competition. He played alongside fellow Romanian, Claudiu Vaișcovici in the 1991 Soviet First League for Zimbru Chișinău after which he finished his career by playing one season for the Israeli side

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International career

Lică Movilă played 14 games at international level in which he scored one goal for

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, making his debut when coach

sent him on the field in the 70th minute in order to replace Gheorghe Mulțescu on 1 June 1983 in a friendly which ended with a 1–0 loss against

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. He scored his only goal for the national team in a friendly which ended 2–2 with

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, made an appearance at the 1986 World Cup qualifiers in a 3–2 away loss in front of

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and on 8 April 1982, Movilă made his last appearance for ''The Tricolours'' in a 3–2 victory against

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International goals

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

Honours

Dinamo București *

: 1982–83, 1983–84 *

: 1983–84, 1985–86

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Movila, Lica 1961 births Living people Footballers from Brăila Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Liga I players FCM Bacău players FC Dinamo București players CSM Flacăra Moreni players FC Universitatea Cluj players FC Zimbru Chișinău players Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. players Romania men's under-21 international footballers Romanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Soviet Union Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the Soviet Union Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Men's association football midfielders Soviet First League players 20th-century Romanian sportsmen