Ilie Datcu is a Romania

Romania

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n 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.

Datcu most notable played for Dinamo Bucharest in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 and Fenerbahçe in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. He played between 1969-75 in Fenerbahçe squad for 220 matches. He won 2 Turkish Football League Championships. After his retirement as a player, Datcu become a coach and was active in Turkey. He discovered Turkish international goalkeeper, Rüştü Reçber

Rüstü Reçber

Rüştü Reçber is a Turkish international footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Beşiktaş J.K. in the Turkish Süper Lig.He has played a key role in the success of the Turkish national squad, and it was at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, where Turkey finished third, that he earned a selection to...

 whom he coached. During 2002, he worked with former Dinamo Bucharest teammate Mircea Lucescu

Mircea Lucescu

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, who appointed him as goalkeeping coach at Beşiktaş

Besiktas J.K.

Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü , or simply Beşiktaş , is a Turkish sports club. The club's football team is one of the major teams in Turkey. The professional sports club, founded in 1903, is based in the Beşiktaş district in Istanbul, Turkey...

.

He also has Turkish citizenship since 1978 with the name İlyas Datça and is now living in Bodrum

Bodrum

Bodrum is a port city in Muğla Province, in the southwestern Aegean Region of Turkey. It is located on the southern coast of Bodrum Peninsula, at a point that checks the entry into the Gulf of Gökova. The site was called Halicarnassus of Caria in ancient times and was famous for housing the...

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Club career

• Constructorul Bucureşti (1950–1954)
• Metalul Câmpina (1955)
• Progresul Bucureşti (1956)
• Pompierul Bucureşti (1958–1959)
• Dinamo Obor Bucureşti (1959–1961)
• Dinamo Bucureşti (1961–1969)
• Fenerbahçe (1969–1975)
• Giresunspor (1975–1976)

Club honours

Dinamo Bucureşti

• Romanian League
  Liga I
  Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier, is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A"...
  
  : 4
  • 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65
• Romanian Cup
  Romanian Cup
  The Cupa României is a football competition which was held annually since 1933-34, except during the World War II. It is the country's main cup competition, and it is open to all clubs affiliated with FRF and the county football associations regardless of the league they belong to...
  
  : 2
  • 1963-64, 1967-68

Fenerbahçe

• Turkish League: 2
  • 1969–70, 1973–74
• Turkish Cup: 1
  • 1973-74

External links

• profile
• Ilie Datcu career stats in Turkey at mackolik.com