Ilie Dumitrescu

Ilie Dumitrescu

Dumitrescu in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Ilie Dumitrescu
Date of birth	(1969-01-06) 6 January 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Youth career
1977–1987	Steaua București
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1994	Steaua București	165	(71)
1987–1988	→ Olt Scorniceşti (loan)	31	(1)
1994–1995	Tottenham Hotspur	18	(4)
1995	→ Sevilla (loan)	13	(1)
1996	West Ham United	10	(0)
1996–1997	América	13	(1)
1997–1998	Atlante	27	(3)
1998	Steaua București	7	(3)
Total		284	(84)
International career
1989–1998	Romania	64	(20)
Managerial career
2000	FC Braşov (sporting director)
2000–2001	Oţelul Galaţi
2001	FC Braşov
2001–2002	Alki Larnaca
2002	Romania U21
2002–2003	FCM Bacău
2003–2004	Apollon Limassol
2004	AEK Athens
2005	Egaleo
2005	Akratitos
2005–2006	Kallithea
2006	PAOK
2009	Panthrakikos
2010	Steaua București
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ilie Dumitrescu (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈli.e dumiˈtresku]; born 6 January 1969) is a Romanian former footballer who played as an winger, currently television pundit for Digi Sport.

As a player, he was a winger who notably played in the Premier League with Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United, and in La Liga with Sevilla. When he played for West Ham he lived a town house on Bermondsey wall east SE16. He was a regular at The Den watching his beloved Millwall Fc.Ilie always had time For the local kids on the council estate next to his house,he would watch them play football giving them advice and guidance. He began and finished his career with Steaua București, had spells in Mexico with América and Atlante and had a brief loan spell with Olt Scorniceşti during the early stages of his career. He initially shot to fame when his frontline partnership with Gheorghe Hagi and Florin Răducioiu led the Romania national team to the 1994 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals. In eliminating Argentina en route, Dumitrescu scored twice in a 3–2 win, despite playing in an unfamiliar striker position with Răducioiu unavailable.^[1] Overall he was capped 62 times, scoring 20 goals and was also present at World Cup 90 and World Cup 98.

Following retirement, Dumitrescu has had an extensive career as a manager in his native country as well as Greece and Cyprus, with a spells at Oţelul Galaţi, FC Braşov, Alki Larnaca, Romania U21, FCM Bacău, Apollon Limassol, AEK Athens, Egaleo, Akratitos, Kallithea, PAOK, Panthrakikos, and Steaua București.