Dan Dumitru Stângaciu, is a former football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 goalkeeper and coach, winner of the European Cup

UEFA Champions League

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 in 1986 and the European Supercup one year later. He is currently the assistant manager of Dan Petrescu

Dan Petrescu

Daniel Vasile Petrescu is a Romanian football manager and former player, currently the manager of Kuban Krasnodar in the Russian Premier League....

 at FC Kuban Krasnodar

FC Kuban Krasnodar

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Career

Aged 18, Stângaciu signs for FC Braşov

FC Brasov

Fotbal Club Brașov is a professional football club based in the city of Brașov, Romania. They were founded in 1936, and since then they have spent 41 season in the top-flight. Brașov kits are yellow-black, and they play their home matches on the Silviu Ploeșteanu stadium.-Early modern football in...

 but after only two years is signed by Steaua Bucureşti, being the second goalkeeper option of the coach Emerich Jenei

Emerich Jenei

Emerich Jenei or Imre Jenei is a Romanian former football player and coach...

. As Helmuth Duckadam

Helmuth Duckadam

Helmuth Robert Duckadam is a retired Romanian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.He was dubbed "the hero of Seville" due to his heroics in the 1986 European Cup Final, won by his main club, Steaua Bucureşti...

 retired from football in 1986, Stângaciu becomes the first option of the new coach, Anghel Iordănescu

Anghel Iordanescu

Anghel Iordănescu is a Major General and former Romanian football striker, currently a politician. In 2007 Iordănescu retired from football, and the following February, after his predecessor resigned, he became a member of the Romanian Senate, sitting on the Social Democratic Party benches.-Career...

.

He spent the season 1988 - 1989 on loan to FC Olt Scorniceşti

FC Olt Scornicesti

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, as Steaua preferred to sign Silviu Lung

Silviu Lung

Silviu Lung is a retired Romanian football goalkeeper. He was born in Sânmiclăuş, Satu Mare and debuted in Divizia A with Universitatea Craiova in 1974. He played fourteen seasons with Universitatea, winning two league titles. In 1988 he joined Steaua Bucureşti and won another league title the...

, but returned in Bucharest one year later.

In 1995 starts his adventure in the Turkish Premier Super Football League

Turkcell Super League

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, playing for Vanspor

Vanspor

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 and Kocaelispor

Kocaelispor

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He retired in 2001 and since then was for a while the goalkeepers' coach at FCU Politehnica Timişoara.

Stângaciu was Romanian football champion in 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, won the Romania Cup in 1987 and 1992 and the Turkish Cup in 1997. He also won five caps for Romania

Romania national football team

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, being part of the squad who played at the World Cup 1998.

On 25 March 2008 he was decorated by the president of Romania

Romania

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, Traian Băsescu

Traian Basescu

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 for the winning of UEFA Champions League

1986 European Cup Final

The 1986 European Cup Final was a football match held at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville, on 7 May 1986, that saw Steaua Bucureşti of Romania defeat Barcelona of Spain in an extraordinary penalty shoot out, after 120 minutes of play could not separate the two sides...

 with Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" — (The Order "The Sportive Merit") class II.

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