Victor Dorin Roșca (born 24 August 1954) is a

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n former professional

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and manager.

Player career

As a footballer, Roșca was the

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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 ...

teams

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and

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 ...

. Roșca promoted with Chimia in the top-flight in 1978 and is considered one of the best goalkeepers in the history of the club. "Vicky" Roșca played in 126 matches for Chimia and scored a goal, one of the few goalkeepers that scored in the

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 ...

Manager career

Roșca retired in the late 1980s and started his manager career at Metalul Bocșa, subsequently managing second tier side Gloria Reșița. Roșca built at Gloria one of the best squads in the history of this club. As a reward for his work, Roșca was promoted in 1996 as the manager of

CSM Reșița Asociația Club Sportiv Muncitoresc Reșița (), commonly known as CSM Reșița or simply as Reșița, is a professional Football (soccer), football club based in Reșița, Caraș-Severin County, which competes in the Liga II. The club was foun ...

and at the end of the season he promoted "the Milan from Banat" in the

. After this performance, Roșca moved in the next years to Politehnica Timișoara, Minerul Motru and Corvinul Hunedoara, all second tier teams. In 2000 he was signed as the new manager of

club Petrolul Ploiești, then in 2002 moved to Oțelul Galați. After 2002, Roșca never managed again in the top-flight, but was an active manager in the lower divisions and led from the bench, teams such as Inter Gaz București,

UTA Arad Asociația Fotbal Club UTA Arad (), commonly known as UTA Arad or simply UTA (''Uzina Textilă Arad''; ), is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Arad, Arad County that competes in the Liga I. The team was founded in 1945 ...

, FCM Reșița, Arieșul Turda (second tier); AFC Filipeștii de Pădure,

CS Blejoi Clubul Sportiv Blejoi, commonly known as CS Blejoi, is a Romanian professional football club from Blejoi, Prahova County, Romania. The club was founded in 2008 and currently is playing in the Liga III. History In the 2018–19 season, CS Bl ...

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, among others (third and fourth tier). In recent years, Victor Roșca was a match observer for the

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Famous quote

In 2000, when Roșca was coach at Petrolul, at the press conference that was held before a game with

, a journalist kept insisting to ask him to reveal his tactic for the game, so Roșca said to him, ironically:"Short passes and up, you have, you don't have the ball, you shoot at the goal!".

Honours

Player

Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea *

Divizia B The Liga 2, most commonly spelled as Liga II, is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name from Divizia B just before the start of the 2006–07 football season. It is currently sponsored by Casa Pariu ...

: Winner (1) 1977–78

Manager

CSM Reșița *

: Winner (1) 1996–97 Blejoi *

Cupa României The Cupa României () is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. It is the Romania ...

–

Prahova County Prahova County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical region Muntenia, with the capital city at Ploiești. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 762,886 and the population density was 161/k ...

: Winner (1) 2011–12

References

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Victor Roșca
at labtof.ro {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosca, Victor 1954 births Living people Footballers from Buzău County Romanian men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Liga I players Liga II players FC Rapid București players Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea players Romanian football managers CSM Reșița managers FC Politehnica Timișoara managers CS Minerul Motru managers FC Petrolul Ploiești managers ASC Oțelul Galați managers FC UTA Arad managers FC Corvinul Hunedoara managers 20th-century Romanian sportsmen