| Doru Popescu | |
| Birth Date: | 29 March 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Baia de Aramă, Romania |
| Height: | 1.85 m |
| Position: | Forward |
| Youthyears1: | 1967–1969 |
| Youthclubs1: | Dinamo București |
| Years1: | 1969–1973 |
| Caps1: | 88 |
| Goals1: | 22 |
| Years2: | 1973–1974 |
| Caps2: | 27 |
| Goals2: | 2 |
| Years3: | 1974–1976 |
| Caps3: | 46 |
| Goals3: | 7 |
| Years4: | 1976–1977 |
| Caps4: | 11 |
| Goals4: | 1 |
| Totalcaps: | 172 |
| Totalgoals: | 32 |
| Nationalyears1: | 1970–1971 |
| Nationalteam1: | Romania U23[1] |
| Nationalcaps1: | 2 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Doru Popescu (29 March 1949 – 15 September 2023) was a Romanian football forward.[2] [3]
Doru Popescu was born on 29 March 1949 in Baia de Aramă, Romania and he started to play football at Dinamo București, making his Divizia A debut on 16 August 1969 in a 5–2 home victory in front of Jiul Petroșani.[2] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] He won two Divizia A titles with The Red Dogs, at the first coaches Nicolae Dumitru and Traian Ionescu gave him 22 appearances in which he scored seven goals while in the second he played 24 matches in which he scored four goals under the guidance of coach Ion Nunweiller.[4] [9] He reached two Cupa României finals with Dinamo, but both of them were lost, Popescu playing only in the one from 1971 when he was a starter, being replaced in the 55th minute with Ion Haidu as they lost 3–2 in favor of Steaua București.[10] [11] Popescu also represented Dinamo in European competitions, firstly playing three games in the 1970–71 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, managing to score a double in a 5–0 victory against PAOK which helped them advance to the next round where they were eliminated by Liverpool.[12] Then in the following season, he played four games in the 1971–72 European Cup, making the match of his career in the second leg of the duel from the first round with Spartak Trnava when he came as a substitute and replaced Viorel Sălceanu in 58th minute, managing to score a double, the result being a 2–2 on aggregate which gave Dinamo the qualification to the next round on the away goals rule where they were eliminated by Feyenoord, after that game Romanian newspaper Sportul wrote:"A tall and broad Oltenia man from Severin, nicknamed Dulapul (The Cabinet), rather a reserve at Dinamo, entered at Trnava in the second half and made the match of his life".[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [13] In 1973 he went to play one season for CSM Reșița, afterwards going for two years at Argeș Pitești, then he played one more season at Rapid București where he made his last Divizia A appearance on 12 June 1977 in a 0–0 against FCM Reșița, having a total of 172 matches with 32 goals scored in the competition and a total 22 games with 9 goals in the Cupa României.[2] Doru Popescu died on 15 September 2023 at age 74.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Dinamo București