Gheorghe Viscreanu
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| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 19 August 1961[1] | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sărata, Bacău, Romania[1] | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[2] | |||||||||||||
| Position | Right back[1] | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| LPEF Bacău | ||||||||||||||
| SC Bacău | ||||||||||||||
| Luceafărul București | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1980–1987 | SC Bacău | 154 | (15) | |||||||||||
| 1981 | → Steaua București (loan) | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1988 | Flacăra Moreni | 17 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | Dinamo București | 19 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Rayo Vallecano | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Total | 202 | (16) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1980 | Romania U18 | |||||||||||||
| 1981 | Romania U20 | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Gheorghe Viscreanu (born 19 August 1961) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a right defender.[1][3][4][5][6]
Viscreanu was born on 19 August 1961 in Sărata, Bacău, Romania.[1][7] He began playing junior-level football at LPEF Bacău, afterwards moving to SC Bacău and then to Luceafărul București.[1] Subsequently, he made his Divizia A debut on 10 June 1981 under coach Angelo Niculescu in SC Bacău's 6–2 away loss to Universitatea Craiova.[1][5][7][8] In the summer of 1981, he went to play for Steaua București where he was wanted by one of his former coaches from Bacău, Traian Ionescu.[5] However, he spent only half a season there without playing and returned to Bacău.[5][7] There, in the first two years Viscreanu played rarely, but he started to play more often in 1983 when coach Constantin Rădulescu came to the club.[5][7] Afterwards he became the team's captain and was transferred in 1988 to Flacăra Moreni.[5][7] Viscreanu joined Mircea Lucescu's Dinamo București for the 1988–89 season.[1][5][7][9] The Red Dogs reached the 1989 Cupa României final, but he did not play in the 1–0 loss to rivals Steaua.[9][10] He also played two matches in the 1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup, a 3–0 win over Kuusysi Lahti and a 1–1 draw against Dundee United, as the team reached the quarter-finals.[7][9][11] On 20 June 1989 he made his last Divizia A appearance in Dinamo's 0–0 draw against his former side, SC Bacău, totaling 190 games with 16 goals in the competition.[7][9][12] In 1989, Viscreanu defected to Spain, signing with Rayo Vallecano.[3][5] He made 12 appearances for them during the 1990–91 Segunda División season, after which he retired at age 29 because of medical problems.[1][3][5][13]
International career
Viscreanu was part of Romania's under-18 national team that participated in the 1980 European Under-18 Championship.[1]
He was selected by coach Constantin Cernăianu to be part of Romania's under-20 squad for the 1981 World Youth Championship held in Australia.[1][14] Viscreanu appeared in two games, a 1–1 draw against Brazil and a 1–0 win over South Korea, helping the team finish the tournament in third position, winning the bronze medal.[14][15]