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Silviu Lung
Romanian footballer and manager From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Silviu Lung (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈsilvju luŋɡ]; born 9 September 1956) is a former Romanian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, who serves as a goalkeeping coach for the Romania national under-20 team.
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Lung was born on 9 September 1956 in Sânmiclăuș, Satu Mare County, Romania and started to play football in 1971 at Victoria Carei in Divizia C, being helped by a rule that the Romanian Football Federation imposed, which was the use of a junior player in the games from the lower leagues.[1][2][3] He went to play for Universitatea Craiova, making his Divizia A debut on 29 August 1974 in a 1–0 victory against Politehnica Timișoara.[1][2][3] Lung went on to play 14 seasons with "U" Craiova, being part of the "Craiova Maxima" generation, helping them win two consecutive league titles in 1980 and 1981, at the first, coach Valentin Stănescu gave him only three appearances because he was diagnosed with hepatitis and at the second he played 20 games under the guidance of coach Ion Oblemenco.[1][2][3][4] He also won the Cupa României four times, in the years 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1983.[1][3] Lung was an integral part of "U" Craiova's team that reached the 1982–83 UEFA Cup semi-finals where they lost to Benfica, making 10 appearances in the campaign.[1][2][3][5]
In 1988, he joined Steaua București and won The Double in his first season with coach Anghel Iordănescu, appearing in 29 Divizia A matches and keeping a clean sheet in the 1–0 win over rivals Dinamo București from the Cupa României final.[1][2][3][4][6] In the same season he helped the club reach the 1988–89 European Cup final, playing nine games in the campaign, including the final which was lost 4–0 to AC Milan.[1][2][3][4][7][8] In the following season, he managed to not concede any goals for 736 consecutive minutes.[9]
After the 1989 Romanian Revolution, Lung went to play abroad at Spanish team, Logroñés where he made his La Liga debut on 2 September 1990 under coach David Vidal in a 2–1 home loss to Mallorca.[1][2][3][10][11][12] In his single season spent at the club, he played only nine games in La Liga, having suffered a knee injury.[1][2][3][10]
In 1991, he returned to Romania, first at Electroputere Craiova, then at Universitatea Craiova with whom he won a Cupa României, keeping a clean sheet in the 2–0 win against Dacia Unirea Brăila from the final.[1][13] He made his last Divizia A appearance on 24 October 1993 in "U" Craiova's 2–0 loss to FC Brașov.[1] Lung has a total of 419 Divizia A appearances and 58 appearances in European competitions, also in 1984 he was the Romanian Footballer of the Year and in the same year he was nominated for the Ballon d'Or.[1][3][14][15]
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Lung played 76 games for Romania, making his debut under coach Ștefan Kovács on 21 March 1979 in a friendly which ended with a 3–0 victory against Greece.[16][17] His second game was a 2–2 against Spain at the Euro 1980 qualifiers.[2][16]
His following appearance for the national team came after three years and a half of absence in a 0–0 against Italy at the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers in which he made a total of five appearances.[16] Lung was used two games by coach Mircea Lucescu at the Euro 1984 final tournament in a 1–1 against Spain and a 2–1 loss against West Germany as Romania did not get past the group stage.[16] He played seven games at the 1986 World Cup qualifiers and five at the Euro 1988 qualifiers.[16]
Afterwards he played five matches at the successful 1990 World Cup qualifiers, being used by coach Emerich Jenei as captain in all the minutes of the four matches from the final tournament, as The Tricolours got eliminated by Ireland in the round of 16.[2][16] Lung played four games at the Euro 1992 qualifiers and made his last appearance for the national team on 2 June 1993 in a 5–2 loss against Czechoslovakia at the 1994 World Cup qualifiers.[2][16]
For representing his country at the 1990 World Cup, Lung was decorated by President of Romania Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.[18][19]
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Managerial career
After retirement, Lung began his coaching career and for over 20 years he was the assistant coach or goalkeeping coach for clubs like: Universitatea Craiova, Național București, Nagoya Grampus, Pandurii Târgu Jiu, Astra Ploiești, CFR Cluj, CS Universitatea Craiova or Concordia Chiajna. Between 1995 and 1997 he was the head coach of Minerul Motru and earlier in 1994, of Olympique de Casablanca, these were his only jobs as a head coach, until December 2017, when he was announced as the new head coach of Liga III side, CSO Filiași.[2][20]
Personal life
Silviu Lung has two sons, Tiberiu and Silviu Jr. who played as goalkeepers and also represented Romania at international level.[2][21]
In January 2014, he was involved in a car accident which killed the driver of the other vehicle, receiving a punishment of one year and four months suspended sentence.[22]
Honours
Player
Victoria Carei
Universitatea Craiova
Steaua București
- Divizia A: 1988–89[1]
- Cupa României: 1988–89[1]
- European Cup runner-up: 1988–89[7]
Individual
- Romanian Footballer of the Year: 1984,[1] (runner-up): 1983, (fourth place): 1985
- Ballon d'Or: 1984 (22nd place)[14][15]
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