Date of birth | August 22, 1953 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dumitru Alexandru (born 22 August 1953 in Bucharest) is a Romanian former rugby union footballer, who played as fly-half. Since 2000, he has been a talent scout and President of the Disciplinary Committee (until 2008) for F.F.R. and since 2014 a member of the Commission for the Status and Transfer of Players. [1]
Alexandru played for RC Grivița, and then, for CSA Steaua București during his career. [2]
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