Lică Nunweiller

Lică Nunweiller (12 December 1938 – 8 November 2013)[3] was a Romanian international football midfielder who played for clubs in Romania and Turkey.[4]

Lică Nunweiller
Personal information
Date of birth (1938-12-12)12 December 1938
Place of birth Piatra Neamț, Romania
Date of death 8 November 2013(2013-11-08) (aged 74)
Place of death Bucharest, Romania
Position(s) Midfielder, defender
Youth career
1948–1949 Venus U.C.B.
1949–1957 Dinamo București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1957–1967 Dinamo București 140 (5)
1967–1969 Dinamo Bacău 55 (0)
1969 Beşiktaş 1 (0)
1970 Dinamo București 11 (0)
Total 207 (5)
National team
1961–1968 Romania[lower-alpha 1] 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Born in Piatra Neamţ, Nunweiller started playing football for FC Dinamo București. He came from a family with six brothers, the oldest one of them, Constantin was a water polo player and the other five: Dumitru, Ion, Victor, Radu and Eduard were footballers, each of them having at least one spell at Dinamo Bucureşti, they are the reason why the club's nickname is "The Red Dogs".[5][6] Lică Nunweiller won four consecutive Romanian league championships with the club from 1962 to 1965.[3] In 1967, he joined rivals FC Dinamo Bacău.

Nunweiller next moved to Turkey to join Beşiktaş J.K. in 1969, making him one of the first Romanians to play professional football in Turkey.[7] He made only one appearance in the Süper Lig during the 1969–70 season, before returning to Romania to finish his career with Dinamo București in 1970.

Nunweiller made four appearances for the Romania national football team.[1][8]

Honours

Club
Dinamo Bucureşti

Notes
  1. Including one appearance for Romania's Olympic team.[1][2]

References
  1. "Lică Nunweiller". European Football. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  2. Lică Nunweiller at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. "Lică Nunweiller 1938 - 2013" (in Romanian). fcdinamo.ro. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  4. Lică Nunweiller at WorldFootball.net
  5. "Fata primului "câine roșu", cele mai frumoase povești despre Lică Nunweiller și un îndemn pentru ultima etapă: "Tata v-ar fi zis să fiți Un suflet!"" [The girl of the first "red dog", the most beautiful stories about Lica Nunweiller, and an exhortation for the last stage: "Dad would have said be A Soul!"] (in Romanian). premium.gsp.ro. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  6. "Destinul fratilor Nunweiller, cei care au dat numele de "cainii-rosii". "Nevestele ne-au indepartat"" [The Destiny of the Nunweiller Brothers, who gave the name of "Red Dogs". "The wives separated us"] (in Romanian). cancan.ro. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  7. Gheorghiu, Lucian (11 September 2011). "Pe timpul lui Ceauşescu fotbaliştii români au invadat Turcia" (in Romanian). Cotidianul.ro.
  8. Siminiceanu, Radu (10 January 2004). "Romania National Team 1960-1969 - Details". RSSSF.


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