Lucian Marinescu

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Lucian Marinescu
Personal information
Full name Lucian Cristian Marinescu
Date of birth (1972-06-24) 24 June 1972 (age 53)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1993–1997 CSM Reșița 97 (26)
1997–1998 Rapid București 33 (13)
1998–2002 Salamanca 48 (4)
1999–2000 → Farense (loan) 27 (11)
2002–2004 Académica 51 (8)
2004–2005 Chaves 30 (4)
2005–2006 Akratitos 27 (1)
Total313(67)
International career
1997–1998 Romania 8 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lucian Cristian Marinescu (born 24 June 1972) is a former Romanian professional footballer who played as a midfielder, who works as football agent.

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Club career

Marinescu was born on 24 June 1972 in Bucharest, Romania. [1] He began playing senior-level football in 1993 at CSM Reșița in Divizia B. [1] [2] [3] In the 1996–97 season he scored 13 goals that helped Reșița earn promotion to the first league. [1] In the following season he went to play for Rapid București, making his Divizia A debut on 6 August 1997 in a 2–0 away victory against Dinamo București. [1] [2] [3] By the end of the season, Marinescu netted 13 league goals and won the Cupa României, with coach Mircea Lucescu using him the entire match in the 1–0 victory against Universitatea Craiova in the final in which he scored the goal from a penalty. [1] [4] He also represented The Railwaymen in the 1997 Intertoto Cup, playing in two games in the group stage, a 2–0 win over Žilina and a 1–1 draw against Austria Vienna. [1] [5]

Salamanca paid €1.3 million for Marinescu's transfer from Rapid in 1998, making his La Liga debut on 30 August under coach Miguel Ángel Russo in a 3–1 win against Deportivo La Coruña. [1] [2] [6] [7] [8] He was a colleague of fellow Romanians Bogdan Stelea and Cătălin Munteanu, and during that time the club was nicknamed "Salamanca Rumana", because Ovidiu Stîngă and Gabriel Popescu also played for the team around that period. [6] In his first season he made a total of 10 league appearances as the team was relegated. [1] [6] [7] In the following season, Marinescu went to play for Farense, making his Primeira Liga debut on 17 October 1999 under coach Nicolau Vaqueiro in a 2–2 draw against Santa Clara in which he closed the score from a penalty. [1] [3] [9] [10] He scored a total of 11 goals until the end of the season, including a double in a 3–3 draw against Porto, helping his side finish in 14th place and avoid relegation. [1] [9] Afterwards he returned to Salamanca where he played two seasons in the second division. [1]

In 2002, Marinescu came back to Portugal, spending the following two seasons at Académica in the first division. [1] [3] Then he went for one year in the second division at Chaves. [1] [3] In 2005 he was brought to Greece at Akratitos together with Bogdan Stelea by their compatriot Ilie Dumitrescu who was coach, ending his career after one year. [1] [3] [11]

International career

Marinescu earned eight caps for Romania, making his debut on 19 November 1997 when coach Anghel Iordănescu sent him in the 67th minute to replace Iulian Filipescu in a friendly 1–1 draw against Spain. [2] [3] [12] [13]

He was selected by Iordănescu to be part of the squad that went to the 1998 World Cup final tournament where he played in all four games. [12] [2] [3] In the group stage they earned victories in the first two rounds over Colombia and England, thus mathematically being qualified before the last group match against Tunisia. [12] [14] In order to celebrate, the players dyed their hair blonde and presented themselves like that at the game. [12] [14] In the round of 16 he made his last appearance for the national team as Iordănescu sent him in the 76th minute to replace Dan Petrescu in the 1–0 loss to Croatia. [12] [15]

International stats

Appearances and goals by national team and year [12]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Romania
199710
199870
Total80

Sports agent career

After ending his playing career, he worked as a sports agent. [3]

Honours

CSM Reșița

Rapid București

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Lucian Marinescu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 ""Aveam 1500 de mărci pe an la Reșița" Lucian Marinescu dezvăluie pe ce salariu s-a transferat la Rapid" ["I had 1500 marks a year at Reșița" Lucian Marinescu reveals the salary he transferred to Rapid for] (in Romanian). Fanatik.ro. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Ce schimbare! A fost campion cu Rapid și a mers cu naționala României la Mondialul din '98. Cu ce se ocupă acum" [What a change! He was a champion with Rapid and went with the Romanian national team to the '98 World Cup. What is he doing now?] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 8 November 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Romanian Cup – Season 1997–1998". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  5. ↑ "Lucian Marinescu. Intertoto Cup 1997". WorldFootball. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 "Salamanca Rumana: de la Stîngă și Stelea la Alex Țîrlea" [Romanian Salamanca: from Stîngă and Stelea to Alex Țîrlea] (in Romanian). Wesport.ro. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  7. 1 2 "Lucian Marinescu. Primera División 1998/1999". WorldFootball. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  8. ↑ "UD Salamanca - Deportivo La Coruña 3:1". WorldFootball. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  9. 1 2 "Lucian Marinescu. Primeira Liga 1999/2000". WorldFootball. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  10. ↑ "SC Farense - CD Santa Clara 2:2". WorldFootball. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "Ilie Dumitrescu a demisionat de la Akratitos" [Ilie Dumitrescu resigned from Akratitos] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 4 October 2005. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Cum a plecat Ilie Dumitrescu de la echipa greacă Akratitos" [How Ilie Dumitrescu left the Greek team Akratitos] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 11 August 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Ilie Dumitrescu a demisionat de la Akratitos" [Ilie Dumitrescu resigned from Akratitos] (in Romanian). Ziua.ro. 11 August 2010. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Lucian Marinescu". European Football. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  13. ↑ "Spain 1-1 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  14. 1 2 "ProSport vă prezintă povestea adevărată a "Generației de Aur" vopsite în galben!" [ProSport presents the true story of the "Golden Generation" painted in yellow!] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
    "Cu totii in GALBEN! Ultima nationala care i-a scos in strada pe romani! Generalul si puii de gaina care au dus Romania la ultimul mondial!" [All in YELLOW! The last national team that brought the Romanians to the streets! The general and the chicklings that took Romania to the last world cup!] (in Romanian). Sport.ro. 18 October 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
    "Generația (cu părul) de Aur. Imagini în premieră cu momentele în care s-au vopsit tricolorii, în 1998" [The (hairy) Golden Generation. Premiere images of the moments when the tricolors were painted, in 1998] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 9 January 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  15. ↑ "Croatia 1-0 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
    "N-au fost 20, sunt 25 de ani! Profeția lui Gică Hagi a fost mai aspră decât se preconiza. La 30 iunie 1998, naționala României juca ultimul ei meci la un Campionat Mondial" [It wasn't 20, it's 25 years! Gică Hagi's prophecy was harsher than expected. On June 30, 1998, the Romanian national team played its last match at a World Championship] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 30 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
    Lazăr, Mihnea (11 June 2018). "The Inside Story of Why the Entire Romania '98 Team Bleached Their Hair". Vice News. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
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