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Lucian Marinescu
Romanian footballer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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Marinescu was born on 24 June 1972 in Bucharest, Romania.[1] He started to play senior level football in 1993 at CSM Reșița in Divizia B.[1][2][3] In the 1996–97 season he scored 13 goals which 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, coach Mircea Lucescu using him all the minutes in the 1–0 victory against Universitatea Craiova 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 from 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][3][6][7][8] He was colleague with fellow Romanians Bogdan Stelea and Cătălin Munteanu, also during that time the club was nicknamed "Salamanca Rumana", because Ovidiu Stîngă and Gabriel Popescu also played for the club around that period.[6] In his first season he made a total of 10 league appearances as the team 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 against Porto, helping his side finish on the 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 returned 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 in Greece at Akratitos together with Bogdan Stelea by their compatriot Ilie Dumitrescu who was coach, ending his career after one year.[1][3][11]
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International career
Marinescu earned eight caps for Romania, making his debut on 19 November 1997 when coach Anghel Iordănescu sent him on the field in the 67th minute to replace Iulian Filipescu in a 1–1 draw in a friendly against Spain.[2][3][12][13]
He was selected by Iordănescu to be part of the squad that went at 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 against Colombia and England, thus mathematically being qualified before the last group match with Tunisia where in order to celebrate, they all 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]
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Sports agent career
After he ended his playing career he worked as a sports agent.[3]
Honours
CSM Reșița
Rapid București
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