Gheorghe Mul?escu, a legend quarterbacking Romania
football dead at 72, departed the world on 15 September 2024. An energetic,
robust midfielder in his active years as a footballer and a well-acknowledged
manager in later years, Gheorghe Mul?escu will always remind a generation of Romania
football’s golden era and their glorious managers.
The Romanian technician known as Gheorghe Mul?escu was born
on the 13th of November, 1951 in Botoroaga, Romania and his first footballing
experience was with the Steaua Bucure?ti youth team. It was at Jiul Petro?ani,
though, where he played his first senior match in 1971, which he really came to
the fore. Known to be a man of great vision and technical brilliance Gheorghe Mul?escu had a
natural instinct to score goals, he in fact scored 74 goals in 239 matches for
Jiul Petro?ani. Gheorghe Mul?escu has always delivered great performance that led him to
joining Dinamo Bucure?ti where he established himself and also one of the
essential players at the team.
Gheorghe Mul?escu's playing career was dominated by the fact of a
versatile and effective player as well as a team captain. From planning the
operations in the midfield or how about providing decisive goals, Gheorghe Mul?escu was an
essential player in his team’s victories. All in all, Gheorghe Mul?escu played in 475
games where he scored 134 goals for a team in his almost two decades long
senior professional carrier. Gheorghe Mul?escu's performances in the Romanian National football
team led to him’s getting 16 caps for the team in between 1974 and 1983 during
which he scored three goals.
After his playing days were over, Gheorghe Mul?escu became a
manager and he was just as successful in that position. Praised for his
strategies and players motivation he had more gigs as manager of Dinamo
Bucure?ti one of Romania’s largest clubs. For Gheorghe Mul?escu the managerial positions
led him to different parts of Europe where among others he coached teams based
in Turkey such as Samsunspor, Kayserispor and Gaziantepspor. The well respected
man was capable of achieving that in many regions of the world, and people considered
him a smart footballing tactician.
Very much alike many Romanians, Gheorghe Mul?escu was a true
journeyman of the football, managing a tremendous number of clubs during his
career. Regardless of the position he had in Romania, Turkey or Saudi Arabia he
was equally passionate about his work and knowledgeable about the profession.
Gheorghe Mul?escu continued to be an active figure for Romanian football into the sixties and
for the most part of his life he continued to coach the Dinamo Bucharest, a
team he played for and led with professionalism.
Apart from football, Gheorghe Mul?escu was a
family-oriented man; his son, C?t?lin Mul?escu also became a footballer after
which he switched to becoming a goalkeeping trainer.
The death of Gheorghe Mul?escu has been felt as the leaving
behind of an efficient and passionate man for football. The milestones made by
the great footballer and the successful manager will always remain an example
to the Romanian football players. The football community is poorer for it today
but the man’s legacy will never be forgotten – there are too many matches that
he contributed to and the lives that he enriched.
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