Mircea Costache II

Mircea Costache II (2 May 1940 – 16 February 2016) was a Romanian handball player and coach who played as a pivot for Dinamo București and for the national team. He scored the winning goal in the 1961 World Championship final.[2]

Mircea Costache II
Costache pictured in 1961
Personal information
Full name Mircea Costache
Born (1940-05-02)2 May 1940
Bucharest, Romania
Died 16 February 2016(2016-02-16) (aged 75)
Bucharest, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Playing position Pivot
Senior clubs
Years Team
1957–1959
Rapid București
1959–1971
Dinamo București
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1959–?
Romania[1] 79 (99)
Teams managed
1971–1976
Algeria
1973–1975
Nadit Alger
1976–1980
Romania Youth
1980–1988
CSŞ 2 Bucureşti
1988–1995
Portugal
1995–1997
Águas Santas
1997–1998
Vitória Setúbal
2000–2001
Sporting Horta
2003–2004
CCP Serpa

After retiring he became a coach in his native Romania and abroad in Algeria and Portugal. Costache led the national team of Algeria to a World Cup for the first time in 1974.[3]

Between 1988 and 1995 he was named coach of both the Portugal senior national team and the Portuguese youth sides, with whom he won the European Youth Handball Championship in 1992.[4]

Costache was also an associate professor at the Moderna University in Lisbon from 1997 to 2002.

Honours

[1]

Player

Dinamo Bucharest

National team

Romania

Coach

Nadit Alger
Águas Santas
  • Campeonato Nacional (III Divisão): 1996
Algeria
Portugal

Distinctions

  • Ordinul Muncii: 1961
  • Maestru Emerit al Sportului: 1961
  • Medalia "Meritul Sportiv": 1964
  • Medalha de Bons Serviços Desportivos (Portugal): 1993[4]
  • Medalia Serviciu Credincios: 2001
  • Ordinul "Meritul sportiv" clasa II-a: 2009
  • Campion de Legendă: 2009

References

  1. "Istoria Handbalului Românesc 1921 – 2014" (PDF). Romanian Handball Federation (in Romanian). p. 65. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  2. "Se sting campionii » Mircea Costache II: ultimul mag de pe semicerc trecut în neființă". Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 17 February 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  3. "Morreu o antigo selecionador nacional Mircea Costache". Record (in Portuguese). 17 February 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  4. "Morreu Mircea Costache, antigo selecionador de Portugal". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 17 February 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.

Selected publications

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