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Dumitru Moraru
Personal information
Date of birth	8 May 1956 (age 68)
Place of birth	București, Romania
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1966–1972	Metalul București
Senior career*
Years	Team
1972–1974	Metalul București
1974–1978	Steaua București
1978–1981	Sportul Studențesc București
1981–1989	Dinamo București
1989	Victoria București
1990–1991	IK Start
Total
International career
	Romania U21
	Romania U23
	Romania B
1975–1988	Romania
Managerial career
2018–	Romania U-19 (GK coach)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dumitru Moraru (born 8 May 1956) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper from 1972 until 1991.

Club career

Dumitru Moraru was born in București, growing up in the Pantelimon neighborhood, where he started playing football in 1966 at the junior teams of Metalul București, where he earned the nickname "Țețe" (Tsetse) after a teammate told him in a cantonment that he sleeps so much as he would have been bitten by a tsetse fly.^[3]^[4]^[5] In two seasons spent at Metalul's senior team, he played 56 games in Divizia B, after which he went to play for Steaua București.^[3]^[2] He made his Divizia A debut under coach Constantin Teașcă on 25 August 1974, playing for Steaua in a derby against Dinamo București, which ended with a 2–0 loss, however his performance in the match was appreciated by journalist Eftimie Ionescu who gave him a 8 in the Sportul newspaper.^[3]^[4]^[5] He played 24 games in the 1975–76 Divizia A season and 26 in the 1977–78 season, helping Steaua win the title in each of those seasons, also winning the 1975–76 Cupa României.^[2]^[3] He went to play three seasons for Sportul Studențesc București where he won the 1979–80 Balkans Cup.^[3]^[4]^[5] Moraru was transferred by Sportul Studențesc at Dinamo București in 1981, where he played 31 league games in each of his first three seasons as the club won the title in all of them and helped the team eliminate Inter Milan in the 1981–82 UEFA Cup, also being the team's captain in the 1983–84 European Cup season as the club reached the semi-finals, playing 8 games in the campaign.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] After 8 seasons spent at Dinamo with three Divizia A titles and three Cupa României won, Moraru alongside teammates Costel Orac and Alexandru Nicolae were transferred to Victoria București, but only for a short while, after which he went to play in Norway at IK Start, amassing a total of 41 league appearances over the course of two seasons, after which he ended his career, a career in which he made a total of 393 appearances in Divizia A and 33 in European competitions.^[3]^[4]^[8]^[9]

International career

Dumitru Moraru played 38 games for Romania, making his debut on 24 September 1975 under coach Valentin Stănescu in a 1–1 against Greece at the 1973–76 Balkan Cup.^[1]^[10] He played one game at each of the 1978 and 1982 World Cup qualifiers, also making three appearances at the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers, being used by coach Mircea Lucescu in a 1–0 loss against Portugal in the group stage of the final tournament.^[1]^[11] Moraru played one game at the 1986 World Cup qualifiers and one at the Euro 1988 qualifiers, making his last appearance for the national team on 30 March 1988 in a friendly which ended 3–3 against East Germany.^[1]

Honours

Steaua București

Divizia A: 1975–76, 1977–78^[2]
Cupa României: 1975–76^[2]

Sportul Studențesc București

Balkans Cup: 1979–80^[4]^[5]

Dinamo București

Divizia A: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84^[2]
Cupa României: 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86^[2]

Individual

Romanian Footballer of the Year (fifth place): 1984,

Notes

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Dumitru Moraru". European Football. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Dumitru Moraru at National-Football-Teams.com
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Dumitru Moraru at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Tricolorii în Antalya: Povestea despre fotbal și națională a portarului care la 18 ani apăra la Steaua, iar la 19 ani reprezenta România" [The tricolors in Antalya: The story about football and the national team of the goalkeeper who at the age of 18 played at Steaua, and at the age of 19 represented Romania] (in Romanian). Frf.ro. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ""Câine" convins, Țețe Moraru a debutat în prima divizie la Steaua. Cu… Dinamo!" [Convinced "dog", Țețe Moraru made his debut in the first division at Steaua. With… Dinamo!] (in Romanian). Fanatik.ro. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
^ "Când Dinamo elimina marele Inter – Cupa UEFA, turul II, 4 noiembrie 1981" [When Dinamo eliminated the great Inter – UEFA Cup, round II, 4 November 1981] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
^ "Dumitru Moraru, căpitanul lui Dinamo în 1984, afectat de mărturiile lui Cornel Dinu: "Plâng ca un copil. Tremur tot. Noi am fost niște blatiști?"" [Dumitru Moraru, the captain of Dinamo in 1984, affected by the testimonies of Cornel Dinu: "I cry like a child. I am shaking. Were we blasphemers?"] (in Romanian). Fanatik.ro. 25 April 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
^ "Costel Orac, dialog deschis cu Ioanițoaia despre Dinamo, blaturi și problemele de sănătate: "Am făcut infarct cu complicații! Medicii m-au salvat, doar 5% mai supraviețuiesc"" [Costel Orac, open dialogue with Ioanițoaia about Dinamo, fixed games and health problems: "I had a heart attack with complications! The doctors saved me, only 5% survive "] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 15 June 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
^ "Interviu cu Orac, omul care a bătut Inter Milano și Hamburg: Lumea mă ia peste picior pe stradă din cauza situației de la Dinamo. Au greșit cu Bratu, iar politica de transferuri a fost dezastruoasă!" [Interview with Orac, the man who beat Inter Milan and Hamburg: People take me by surprise on the street because of the situation at Dinamo. They were wrong with Bratu, and the transfer policy was disastrous!] (in Romanian). Pariurix.ro. 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
^ "Greece 1-1 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
^ "Portugal 1-0 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 10 December 2021.