Angelo Niculescu
Appearance
![]() Niculescu in 1970 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Angelo Niculescu | ||
Date of birth | 1 October 1921 | ||
Place of birth | Craiova, Romania | ||
Date of death | 20 June 2015 | (aged 93)||
Place of death | Bucharest, Romania | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1937–1939 | Rovine Grivița Craiova | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1939–1944 | FC Craiova | ||
1945–1947 | Carmen București | ||
1947–1948 | Ciocanul București | 29 | (1) |
1948–1950 | Dinamo București | 33 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1953 | Dinamo București | ||
1954 | Dinamo București | ||
1955–1957 | Dinamo București | ||
1958 | Steaua București | ||
1958–1959 | Tractorul Brașov | ||
1964–1965 | Dinamo București | ||
1965–1966 | Dinamo București | ||
1967–1972 | Romania | ||
1973–1977 | Sportul Studențesc | ||
1977–1979 | Politehnica Timișoara | ||
1979–1980 | Dinamo București | ||
1980–1981 | SC Bacău | ||
1981–1982 | Universitatea Cluj | ||
1983–1984 | Oțelul Galați | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Angelo Niculescu (1 October 1921 – 20 June 2015) was a Romanian football player and manager.[1][2][3] He was the coach of the Romania national football team during the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He is best remembered in Romania for inventing the "temporizare" ("delaying") tactics in which the team keeps the possession of the ball inside its own half and the players are using many short passes from one side to another of the field in order to disrupt the opponents patience when they go out of their field to make pressing; this is also known as tiki-taka.[4] With such tactics Romania qualified for a World Cup after more than 30 years and registered a win against Czechoslovakia.
Honours
Manager
- Dinamo București
References
- ^ "Sfârșitul echipei Ciocanul". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1949". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1950". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ Crăiţoiu, Andrei. "Foștii elevi îl omagiază pe Angelo Niculescu: "A fost cel mai mare antrenor al României!"". Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). Retrieved 27 January 2016.
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Categories:
- 1921 births
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- Sportspeople from Craiova
- Romanian footballers
- Liga I players
- FC Carmen București players
- Maccabi București players
- FC Dinamo București players
- Romanian football managers
- 1970 FIFA World Cup managers
- FC Dinamo București managers
- FC Steaua București managers
- Romania national football team managers
- FC Sportul Studențesc București managers
- FCM Bacău managers
- FC Universitatea Cluj managers
- ASC Oțelul Galați managers
- Association football midfielders
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