| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 May 1957 [1] [2] | ||
| Place of birth | Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania [3] | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) [1] | ||
| Position(s) | Right back / Centre Back / Midfielder [2] [3] [4] | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1976 | Metalul Turnu Severin | ||
| 1976–1982 | Politehnica Timișoara | 113 | (1) |
| 1982–1985 | Karlsruher SC | 49 | (6) |
| 1985–1986 | SV Linx | 23 | (10) |
| Total | 185 | (17) | |
| International career | |||
| 1979 | Romania B | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 January 2020 | |||
Dumitru Nadu (born 10 May 1957) is a Romanian former footballer who played mainly as a defender. [1] [2]
Nadu was born on 10 May 1957 in Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania. [3] He started playing football at local club, Metalul, during the 1975–76 Divizia C season. [2] [3] In 1976 he went at Politehnica Timișoara where he made his Divizia A debut on 2 May in a 5–1 victory against Rapid București. [2] In the 1977–78 season he helped the team finish third. [2] Afterwards he made his debut in European competitions, playing in three games from the 1978–79 UEFA Cup campaign as they eliminated MTK Hungária in the first round, being eliminated by Budapest Honved in the following one. [2] [5] Nadu won the only trophy of his career, the 1979–80 Cupa României when he was used by coach Ion Ionescu all the minutes in the 2–1 victory from the final over Steaua București. [2] [6] He then helped the club eliminate Celtic in the first round of the 1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup. [2] [3] [7] He reached with Poli another Cupa României final in 1981 where coach Ionescu used him the full 90 minutes in the 6–0 loss to Universitatea Craiova. [2] [8] Nadu played his last two games in European competitions in the preliminary round of the 1981–82 European Cup Winners' Cup, however the qualification was lost in favor of Lokomotive Leipzig. [2] [9] He made his last Divizia A appearance on 22 November 1981 in a 2–1 home victory against ASA Târgu Mureș, having a total of 113 matches with one goal scored in the competition, all of them for Politehnica. [2]
Afterwards, Nadu ran away illegally from Communist Romania to West Germany, playing for Karlsruher SC. [2] [3] [4] He made his Bundesliga debut on 1 September 1982 when coach Horst Franz sent him on the field in the 65th minute to replace Wilfried Trenkel in a 4–0 home loss to Bayern Munich. [2] [10] That would be his only appearance during his first season as the club relegated. [2] [4] He stayed with the club in the 1983–84 2. Bundesliga season in which he netted five goals which helped the team earn promotion back to the first league. [2] In his last season, Nadu scored his only Bundesliga goal on 10 November 1984 in a 4–0 home win over Arminia Bielefeld. [2] [4] [11] He made his 16th and last appearance in the competition on 8 June 1985 in a 1–1 draw against VfB Stuttgart, as Karlsruher SC relegated once again. [2] [4] [11] Nadu ended his career one year later at German fourth league team, SV Linx. [2]
Nadu made one appearance in 1979 for Romania's B squad, a 4–1 victory against the Soviet Union. [2]
Politehnica Timișoara
Karlsruher SC