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Mircea Costache II

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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 București
1988–1995
 Portugal
1995–1997
 Águas Santas
1997–1998
 Vitória Setúbal
2000–2001
 Sporting Horta
2003–2004
 CCP Serpa
Medal record
Men's handball
Representing  Romania
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1961 West Germany Team
Gold medal – first place 1964 Czechoslovakia Team
Bronze medal – third place 1967 Sweden Team
Head coach  Algeria
All-Africa Games
Gold medal – first place 1973 Nigeria Team
All-Africa University Games
Gold medal – first place 1975 Ghana Team
African Championship
Silver medal – second place 1976 Algeria Team
Mediterranean Games
Bronze medal – third place 1975 Alger Team
Head coach  Portugal
European Youth Championship
Gold medal – first place 1992 Switzerland Team
IHF Junior World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Argentina Team

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]

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, where he coach the football team and won two championships, between 1997 and 2001, and was runner-up in 1998.

Honours

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Source:[1]

Player

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Dinamo Bucharest

National team

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Romania

Coach

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Nadit Alger
Águas Santas
  • Campeonato Nacional (III Divisão): 1996
Algeria
Portugal
  • Winner of the gold medal at the 1992 European Youth Championship
  • Winner of the bronze medal at the 1995 IHF Junior World Championship
  • Portuguese University Championship footbal 11 by Moderna University of Lisbon ( 1997-1998)
  • Runner-up in footbal 11 1998-1999 with Moderna University of Lisbon
  • Champions again in 1999-2000 Portuguese University Championship in footbal 11

Distinctions

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  • 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

Selected publications

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  • Costache, Mircea (2013). Uma vida, a mesma paixão (in Portuguese). Impuls. ISBN 978-973-8132-78-8.

References

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  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Morreu Mircea Costache, antigo selecionador de Portugal". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 17 February 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
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