Mircea Rednic

Mircea Rednic

Rednic in 1984
Personal information
Full name Mircea Rednic
Date of birth 9 April 1962 (1962-04-09) (age 49)
Place of birth Hunedoara, Romania
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Defender
Youth career
1976–1979 Corvinul Hunedoara
1979–1980 Luceafărul Bucureşti
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1980–1983 Corvinul Hunedoara 96 (6)
1983–1990 Dinamo Bucureşti 212 (21)
1990–1991 Bursaspor 14 (0)
1991–1996 Standard Liège 140 (3)
1996–1997 Sint-Truidense 10 (0)
1997–2000 Rapid Bucureşti 89 (2)
Total 555 (32)
National team
1981–1991 Romania 83 (2)
Teams managed
2000–2001 Rapid Bucureşti
2001 FCM Bacău
2002–2003 Rapid Bucureşti
2004 Al-Nassr
2004–2005 Universitatea Craiova
2005–2006 FC Vaslui
2006–2007 Dinamo Bucureşti
2007–2008 Rapid Bucureşti
2008–2009 Dinamo Bucureşti
2009 Alania Vladikavkaz
2010–2011 Khazar Lankaran
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Mircea Rednic (born 9 April 1962) is a Romanian football manager and former defender.

He was born in Hunedoara and started to play in the country's first division (Divizia A) in 1980, for Corvinul Hunedoara.

Rednic was capped 83 times and scored 2 goals for the Romanian national football team between 1981 and 1991. He also represented his country at the 1984 European Football Championship and the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

After he retired, Rednic started working as a coach and, with Rapid Bucharest. He then moved to FCM Bacău, and in 2002 he returned to Rapid. He won Romania's First League (Liga 1) title in the 2002/2003 season with Rapid. He was sacked the next season, and after a brake, he returned in Romania's First League as Univeristatea Craiova's manager in 2004-2005 season. He was later manager of FC Vaslui. In 2006-2007 he moved to Dinamo Bucureşti. He had an impressive season with Dinamo after which he won the Romania's First League once again. He quit from Dinamo after a bad start of the 2007-2008 season (Dinamo did not manage to qualify in Champions League group stage after a 2-4 aggregate loss with Lazio) on the 2 September 2007.

On 9 October 2007 he signed a 4 year contract with Rapid Bucharest. He resigned in March 2008. He was appointed the new manager of Dinamo Bucureşti in the Summer of 2008. From July 2010 until December 2011, he managed Khazar Lankaran in Azerbaijan.

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International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 29 July 1984 Stadionul 23 August, Iaşi, Romania  China PR 1–0 4–2 Friendly
2 26 May 1990 Heysel Stadium, Brussels, Belgium  Belgium 1–2 2–2 Friendly

Honours

Player

FC Dinamo Bucureşti

Standard Liége

FC Rapid Bucureşti

Manager

FC Rapid Bucureşti

FC Dinamo Bucureşti

FK Khazar Lankaran

External links

Romania squad – UEFA Euro 1984
Romania squad – 1990 FIFA World Cup
FC Rapid Bucureşti – managers
(c) caretaker