Mircea Stoenescu
Personal information
Date of birth (1943-10-11)11 October 1943[1]
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania[1]
Date of death 5 January 2022(2022-01-05) (aged 78)
Place of death Drăgășani, Romania
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Centre back[1]
Youth career
Dinamo București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1960–1961 Dinamo București 2 (0)
1962–1963 Dinamo Obor București
1963–1965 Dinamo Pitești 36 (9)
1965–1973 Dinamo București 120 (2)
1973–1975 Dinamo Slatina[lower-alpha 1] 15 (2)
Total 173 (13)
International career
1965–1966 Romania U23[2] 2 (0)
Managerial career
Dinamo Victoria București
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mircea Stoenescu (11 October 1943 – 5 January 2022) was a Romanian football centre-back, manager and referee.[1][3]

Career

Mircea Stoenescu was born on 11 October 1943 in Bucharest, Romania.[1] He started his career playing at the junior squads of Dinamo București, winning a national title at children level in 1959 and one in junior level in 1961.[4] He made his Divizia A debut on 9 July 1961, playing for Dinamo in a 2–0 home victory against Steagul Roșu Brașov.[1] In the following season he made one Divizia A appearance as the club won the title, after which he went to play two seasons at Divizia B club, Dinamo Obor București and another two seasons at Divizia A club, Dinamo Pitești.[1][4] In 1965, Stoenescu returned to Dinamo București for a 8 seasons spell, in which he won two titles, in the first he contributed with 20 appearances and in the second he played 8 games and scored one goal, also helping the club win a cup.[1][4] He made his last Divizia A appearance on 5 November 1972, playing for Dinamo București in a 1–0 away loss against ASA Târgu Mureș.[1] Stoenescu ended his playing career, spending two seasons at Divizia B team, Dinamo Slatina, having a total of 158 Divizia A matches with 11 goals scored and 7 appearances in European competitions (including 4 appearances in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup).[1] After he ended his playing career, Stoenescu worked for a while as a coach at Dinamo Victoria București in the lower leagues of Romania and as a referee, arbitrating 39 matches over the course of six seasons in Romania's top-league Divizia A.[4][3][5][6] He was also president at Dinamo București.[7][8] Mircea Stoenescu died in Drăgășani on 5 January 2022, at the age of 78.[4]

Honours

Dinamo București

Dinamo Pitești

Notes

  1. ↑ The statistics for the 1974–75 Divizia B season are unavailable.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Mircea Stoenescu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ↑ "Mircea Stoenescu profile". 11v11. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  3. 1 2 "EXCLUSIV Mircea Stoenescu, interviu tulburător de pe patul de cămin: "E "Apusul meu de soare". Visez să mai trec pragul casei cu soția"" [EXCLUSIVE Mircea Stoenescu, disturbing interview from the dormitory bed: "It's my sunset. "I dream to cross the threshold of the house with my wife"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Nazare, Daniel (5 January 2022). "Dinamo, încă o lovitură grea! A murit marele Mircea Stoenescu, "jandarmul" lui Dobrin: "Am pierdut un personaj fabulos! Te vom iubi mereu!"". Pro Sport. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  5. ↑ "Mircea Stoenescu referee profile". Labtof. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "Ei ne-au părăsit în 2022! Cele mai importante nume din fotbalul românesc care au murit anul trecut" [They left us in 2022! The most important names in Romanian football who died last year] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "Mircea Stoenescu se simte umilit de actualii jucători şi conducători ai "cîinilor": "Noi am scris istoria frumoasă a clubului! Cu voi mi-e ruşine"" [Mircea Stoenescu feels humiliated by the current players and leaders of the "dogs": "We wrote the beautiful history of the club! I am ashamed of you"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  8. ↑ "Mircea Stoenescu a fost numit presedinte la Dinamo" [Mircea Stoenescu was appointed president at Dinamo] (in Romanian). Ziaruldeiasi.ro. 1 April 1999. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  9. ↑ "Romanian Cup – Season 1967–1968". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  10. ↑ "Romanian Cup – Season 1968–1969". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  11. ↑ "Romanian Cup – Season 1969–1970". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  12. ↑ "Romanian Cup – Season 1970–1971". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  13. ↑ "Romanian Cup – Season 1964–1965". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
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