Full name Marius Mihai Lacatus Playing position Years Team Role Football player Weight 76 kg Position Forward | 1977–1981 Brasov Name Marius Lacatus Height 1.81 m Spouse Mariana Lacatus Children Alexandra Lacatus | |
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Date of birth (1964-04-05) 5 April 1964 (age 51) Number 7 (FC Steaua Bucuresti / Forward) | ||
Marius Lăcătuş, atacant dreapta în Naționala de Vis
Marius Mihai Lăcătuș ([ˈmari.us miˈhaj ləkəˈtuʃ]; born 5 April, 1964 in Brașov) is a retired Romanian football player and football coach. He is so far the most successful football player ever to play for Steaua București. He is all-time top scorer for Steaua with 16 goals in European competitions.
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- Marius Lctu atacant dreapta n Naionala de Vis
- Marius lacatus sare la gatul lui ioan ovidiu sabau hagi intervine
- Club career
- International
- International goals
- Honours
- References
Marius lacatus sare la gatul lui ioan ovidiu sabau hagi intervine
Club career
He played as a deep lying striker or inside forward for Steaua București most of his career, being the team's captain between 1994 and 1999. He also played for AC Fiorentina of Italy and Real Oviedo of Spain. Since 21 October 2008, he was the team coach of Steaua București, the team that made him who he is. However, after a home game against Lyon for the 2008-2009 UEFA Champions League group stage, which his team lost with a disappointing 5–3, he resigned from the position of Steaua's manager, as he stated that that defeat was his fault.
Lăcătuș was an iconic player for Steaua București's supporters. Even now, many years after leaving the club as a player, the supporters shout his name at home games. The supporters loved him for his spectacular way of playing football, as well as for his commitment during the games. He was nicknamed Fiara (The Beast).
He was the first player to score in the penalty shoot-out of the 1986 European Cup final against FC Barcelona, won by Steaua. After 1990 World Cup in Italy, where he scored two goals against the USSR, Lăcătuș was signed by the Italian team ACF Fiorentina and then moved to Real Oviedo in Spain. In 1994 he returned to Steaua and played for the team until 1999, when he finally signed for FC Național București, where he played only for half a season before retiring. However, in October 2006 he decided to enroll himself as part of UT Arad team where he was also coach until 2007 before he joined Steaua.
His sister is a piano café concert player in Romania.
On 25 March 2008 he was decorated by the president of Romania, Traian Băsescu with Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" — (Order of Sporting Merit) class II for his part in winning the 1986 European Cup Final.
Lăcătuș played a total of 414 games in the Romanian Divizia A (now Liga I), scoring 103 goals; 21 games in the Italian Serie A where he scored three times and also 51 games in the Spanish La Liga, scoring 7 goals. He also made appearances 72 games in the European Cup, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup, scoring 16 goals.
As a player he won the Romanian football championship ten times and the Romanian Cup seven times, as well as the European Cup in 1986 and the European Supercup in 1987, all with Steaua București.
International
Lăcătuș was capped 84 times, scoring 13 goals for the Romanian national team, and played for his country in the 1990 World Cup, Euro 1996 and 1998 World Cup. He scored the 700th goal for the national team of Romania.
International goals
Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after the player's goal.Honours
Steaua București