Mircea Paraschiv
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| Date of birth | 14 December 1954.[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mircea Paraschiv (born 14 December 1954) is a Romanian former professional rugby union player and coach. He was one of the best scrum-halves of his generation.
He is currently the single Romanian player inducted to the World Rugby Museum Wall of Fame, inaugurated in 2005 in Twickenham.[1]
He played for Dinamo București, from 1975 until his retirement in 1987. He won the Romanian Rugby League title in the 1981–82 season.
International career
Paraschiv has 62 caps for Romania from 1975 to 1987. He made his debut in Madrid on 4 May 1975 in a 16–12 win over Spain in the 1974–75 FIRA Trophy. His last international game was against France in November 1987. He scored 6 tries during his international career, 24 points on aggregate. He captained his national side from 1976 to 1987.[2]
Paraschiv was player and assistant coach at the 1987 Rugby World Cup. He played in all the three games, scoring a try in the 21–20 win over Zimbabwe in May 1987 in Auckland.