Răzvan Lucescu
Romanian association football manager and former player (born 1969) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Răzvan Lucescu (Romanian pronunciation: [rəzˈvan luˈt͡ʃesku]; born 17 February 1969) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently managing Greek Super League club PAOK.
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1969-02-17) 17 February 1969 (age 55) | ||
Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | PAOK (head coach) | ||
Youth career | |||
1981–1985 | Dinamo București | ||
1985–1987 | Sportul Studențesc | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1987–1992 | Sportul Studențesc | 24 | (0) |
1992–1993 | Crema | 3 | (0) |
1993–1996 | Sportul Studențesc | 81 | (0) |
1996–1997 | Național București | 31 | (0) |
1997–1998 | Sportul Studențesc | 31 | (0) |
1998–1999 | Național București | 23 | (0) |
2000 | FC Brașov | 13 | (0) |
2000–2001 | Rapid București | 26 | (0) |
2001–2002 | FCM Bacău | 10 | (0) |
2002–2003 | Rapid București | 1 | (0) |
Total | 243 | (0) | |
International career | |||
1989 | Romania U21[1] | 2 | (0) |
1998 | Romania B[1] | 1 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2004 | FC Brașov | ||
2004–2007 | Rapid București | ||
2007–2009 | Brașov | ||
2009–2011 | Romania | ||
2011–2012 | Rapid București | ||
2012–2014 | El Jaish | ||
2014 | Petrolul Ploiești | ||
2014–2017 | Xanthi | ||
2017–2019 | PAOK | ||
2019–2021 | Al Hilal | ||
2021– | PAOK | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
As a player, he operated as a goalkeeper and spent most years of his career at Sportul Studențesc during three stints. Lucescu also represented Național București, FC Brașov, Rapid București and FCM Bacău in his country, as well as Crema abroad. He won his only national title with Rapid in the 2002–03 campaign.
He returned to Brașov in 2004 for his first role as a manager, before moving to Rapid where he guided the team to the Cupa României in the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. Between 2009 and 2011, Lucescu was in charge of the Romania national team. His other managerial honours include six domestic trophies with El Jaish, PAOK and Al Hilal combined. With the latter side, he also won the AFC Champions League in 2019.