Mihai Țurcan (born 4 October 1941) is a

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n former football

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Career

Mihai Țurcan was born on 4 October 1941 in

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, starting to play football at

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, making his

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 ...

debut on 11 September 1960 in a 3–1 home win over Farul Constanța in which he scored two goals. In the middle of the 1961–62 season he was transferred at Dinamo Pitești, relegating at the end of the season but he stayed with the club, helping it promote back after one year. In 1964 he made a short comeback to Minerul Lupeni, this time in

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, returning to Pitești afterwards with whom he managed to reach the

1965 Cupa României final The 1965 Cupa României Final was the 27th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Știința Cluj and Dinamo Pitești and was won by Știința after a game with three goals. It was the first cup fo ...

, being used by coach

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all the minutes in the 2–1 loss in front of

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in which he scored his side's goal. In the 1965–66 season, he scored a personal record of nine goals in the league. In his first season played in European competitions he appeared in six games in the

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, as in the first two rounds Dinamo Pitești eliminated

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and

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, Țurcan scoring once against the latter, being defeated in the third round with 1–0 on aggregate by

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who eventually won the competition.

In 1970, Țurcan went to play for

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where on 6 December he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 3–1 home win over Progresul București, having a total of 154 appearances with 39 goals scored in the competition, also he played a total of 10 games, scoring once in

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. He ended his career in 1972 after helping

Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea was a Football (soccer), football club based in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Vâlcea County, Vâlcea County, Romania. It was founded in 1946 and dissolved in 2004. It won one Romanian Cup, in 1972–73 Cupa României, 1973. History ...

promote from the third league to the second.

Honours

Dinamo Pitești *

: 1962–63 *

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runner-up: 1964–65 Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea *

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: 1970–71

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Mihai Țurcan
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