Marius Lăcătuş

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Marius Lăcătuş
Personal information
Full name Marius Mihai Lăcătuş
Date of birth April 4, 1964 (1964-04-04) (age 44)
Place of birth    Braşov, Romania
Playing position Inside-forward
Club information
Current club Steaua Bucharest
Youth clubs
1977–1981 FC Braşov
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1981–1983
1983–1989
1990–1991
1991–1993
1993–2000
2000		 FC Braşov
Steaua Bucharest
ACF Fiorentina
Real Oviedo
Steaua Bucharest
FC Naţional Bucharest		 045 0(5)
200 (59)
021 0(3)
051 0(7)
157 (39)
012 0(0)   
National team
1984–1998 Romania 084 (13)
Teams managed
2000–2001
2001
2002–2003
2003
2004
2005
2006–2007
2007–		 FC Naţional Bucureşti (head coach)
Panama (assistant coach)
FC Braşov
Romania (assistant coach)
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ
Inter Gaz Bucureşti
UT Arad
Steaua Bucharest

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Marius Mihai Lăcătuş (born April 4, 1964 in Braşov) is Romanian football player and current coach of Steaua Bucharest.

He played as a deep lying striker or inside forward for Steaua Bucharest most of his career, being the team's captain between 1994 and 1999. He also played for AC Fiorentina of Italy and Real Oviedo of Spain. Currently, he is the team coach of Steaua Bucharest, the team that made him who he is.

Lăcătuş was an iconic player for Steaua Bucharest's supporters. Even now, seven years after leaving the club as a player, the supporters shout his name at each game. The supportes loved him for his spectacular way of playing football, as well as for his commitment during the games. He was nicknamed Fiara (The Beast).

He was the first player to score in the penalty shoot-out of the 1986 European Cup final against FC Barcelona, won by Steaua Bucharest. After 1990 World Cup in Italy, where he scored two goals against USSR, Lăcătuş was signed by the Italian team ACF Fiorentina and then moved to Real Oviedo in Spain. In 1994 he returned to Steaua Bucharest and played for the team until 1999, when he finally signed for FC Naţional Bucureşti, where he played only for half a season before retiring. However, in October 2006 he decided to enroll himself as part of UT Arad team were he was also coach until 2007 before he joined Steaua Bucharest.

His sister, is a renowned piano cafe concert player in Romania.

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[edit] Club career

Lăcătuş played a total of 414 games in the Romanian Divizia A (now Liga I), scoring 103 goals; 21 games in the Italian Serie A where he scored three times and also 51 games in the Spanish La Liga, scoring 7 goals. He also made appearances 72 games in the European Cup, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup, scoring 16 goals.

Lăcătuş was capped 84 times, scoring 13 goals for the Romanian national team, and played for his country in the 1990 World Cup, Euro 1996 and 1998 World Cup. He scored the 700th goal for the national team of Romania.

As a player he won the Romanian football championship ten times and the Romanian Cup seven times, as well as the European Cup in 1986 and the European Supercup in 1987, all with Steaua Bucharest.

[edit] Coaching and managerial career

After retiring from professional football in 2000, Marius Lăcătuş became the head coach of FC Naţional Bucureşti and then, became assistant coach of the Panama national team. In March 2002 he was signed by Otelul Galati as head coach. In the summer of 2002 he returned to FC Braşov - the club of his hometown - this time as head coach. He ended the first season, on the fourth place, the best result in the history of Brasov. After the first half of the 2003-2004 season he resigned and moved to Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ.Here, he couldn't save the team, from falling in the second league. For a little time, he became the head coach, for the second league team, Inter Gaz.

He was also assistant coach of the Romanian national team for a short time in 2003.

In 2005 he was named president of Steaua Bucharest but could not last in this position for a long time; as he used to say, he likes the pitch more than the office. In the summer of 2006 he signed with UT Arad, a club at which he has been also registered as a player. He saved the club from falling in the second league, but he resigned in the second season, because of the financial difficulty of the club.

On October 28, 2007 he was appointed as Steaua Bucharest head coach, replacing Massimo Pedrazzini.He ended the first season on the second place, in the first leaugue.[1]

[edit] Honours

Lăcătuş is currently the most domestically decorated player of all time.


[edit] References

  1. ^ Steaua hero Lacatus accepts coach role. UEFA.com (2007-10-28). Retrieved on 2007-10-28.

[edit] External links

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Romania squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup
1 Lung • 2 Rednic • 3 Klein • 4 Andone • 5 Rotariu • 6 G. Popescu • 7 Lăcătuş • 8 Sabău • 9 Cămătaru • 10 Hagi • 11 Lupu • 12 Stelea • 13 A. Popescu • 14 Răducioiu • 15 Mateuţ • 16 Timofte • 17 Dumitrescu • 18 Balint • 19 Săndoi • 20 Muzsnay • 21 Lupescu • 22 Liliac • Coach: Jenei
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Romania squad - UEFA Euro 1996
1 Stelea • 2 Petrescu • 3 Prodan • 4 Belodedici • 5 Lupescu • 6 Popescu • 7 Lăcătuş • 8 Sabău • 9 Răducioiu • 10 Hagi • 11 Munteanu • 12 Prunea • 13 Selymes • 14 Gâlcă • 15 Doboş • 16 Mihali • 17 Filipescu • 18 Stîngă • 19 Ilie • 20 Moldovan • 21 Vlădoiu • 22 Tene • Coach: Iordănescu
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Romania squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Stângaciu • 2 Petrescu • 3 Dulca • 4 Doboş • 5 Gâlcă • 6 Gheorghe Popescu • 7 Lăcătuş • 8 Munteanu • 9 Moldovan • 10 Hagi • 11 Ilie • 12 Stelea • 13 Ciobotariu • 14 Niculescu • 15 Marinescu • 16 Gabriel Popescu • 17 Dumitrescu • 18 Filipescu • 19 Stîngă • 20 Selymes • 21 Craioveanu • 22 Prunea • Coach: Iordănescu
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FC Steaua Bucureşti – current squad

1 Rufay • 2 Ninu • 3 Goian • 4 Golański • 5 Rada • 6 Rădoi • 7 Bicfalvi • 8 Petre • 9 Badea • 10 Dică • 12 Cernea • 13 Emeghara • 14 Cristocea • 15 Neşu • 16 Nicoliţă • 17 Baciu • 18 Marin • 20 Lovin • 21 Ochiroşii • 22 Pepe Moreno • 23 Pleşan • 24 Ghionea • 25 Neaga • 26 Eze • 27 Dayro Moreno • 29 Mendoza • 30 Gomes • 82 Vâtcă • 84 Surdu • TBA Croitoru • TBA Ionescu • TBA Liţu • TBA Neagoe • TBA Nunes • TBA Simion • TBA Stancu • TBA Székely • TBA Tudose • Coach: Lăcătuş Manager: Ilie
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FC Steaua Bucureşti – Managers

Braun-Bogdan (1948) • Vâlcov (1948–49) • Ronnay (1950) • Gh. Popescu (1951–53) • Ronnay (1953–54) • Savu (1954–55) • Dobay (1956) • Savu (1958) • Niculescu (1958) • Gh. Popescu (1958–60) • Onisie (1960–61) • Mladin (1961) • Gh. Popescu (1962) • Onisie (1962–63) • Ola (1963–64) • Savu (1964–67) • Kovács (1967–70) • Onisie (1970–71) • Stănescu (1971–72) • Constantin (1972-73) • Teaşcă (1974–75) • Jenei (1975–78) • Constantin (1978–81) • Ionescu (1981) • Cernăianu (1981–83) • Jenei (1983–84) • Halagian (1984) • Jenei (1984–86) • Iordănescu (1986–90) • Ştefănescu (1990) • Hălmageanu (1991) • Jenei (1991) • Piţurcă (1992) • Iordănescu (1992–93) • Jenei (1993–94) • Dumitriu (1994–97) • Stoichiţă (1997–98) • Jenei (1998–2000) • Piţurcă (2000–02) • Olăroiu (2002) • Piţurcă (2002–04) • Zenga (2004–05) • Dumitriu (2005) • Protasov (2005) • Olăroiu (2006–07) • Hagi (2007) • Pedrazzini (2007) • Lăcătuş (2007–)