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Other occupation
  
Technician

1967–1989
  
FIFA-listed

Years
  
League

Name
  
Nicolae Rainea

1964–1984
  
Role
  
Referee

Years
  
League


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Born
  
19 November 1933Braila, Romania (
1933-11-19
)

Died
  
April 1, 2015, Bucharest, Romania

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Nicolae Rainea (19 November 1933 – 1 April 2015), nicknamed The Locomotive of the Carpathians, was a Romanian football referee.

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Career

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He refereed at three FIFA World Cups (1974, 1978, 1982), the UEFA Euro 1980 Final, the 1983 European Cup Final, the second leg of the 1978 European Super Cup and the second leg of the 1978 UEFA Cup Final.

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Rainea officiated the Italy v Argentina game at the 1982 World Cup. He was limnesman in a later match between France and Northern Ireland.

Honours and legacy

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Rainea was decorated by two presidents of Romania, Ion Iliescu and Traian Băsescu. He was made honorary citizen of Galați where he resided and served four local council terms.

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Nicolae Rainea Stadium in Galați is named after him.

Personal life and death

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In 2011, he celebrated 50 years of marriage. He had a son and a daughter, both living in Sweden.

After an untreated mild cold turned into a pulmonary edema, Rainea suffered a cardiac arrest while in hospital and died on 1 April 2015 in Galați. He was 81 years old.

References

Nicolae Rainea Wikipedia


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