Mircea Paraschiv (born 14 December 1954) is a Romanian former professional rugby union player and coach. He was one of the best scrum-halves of his generation.
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| Date of birth | 14 December 1954.[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He is currently the single Romanian player inducted to the World Rugby Museum Wall of Fame, inaugurated in 2005 in Twickenham.[1]
Club career
editHe played for Dinamo București, from 1975 until his retirement in 1987. He won the Romanian Rugby League title in the 1981–82 season.
International career
editParaschiv has 62 caps for Romania from 1975 to 1987. He made his debut in Madrid on 4 May 1975 in a 16–12 win over Spain in the 1974–75 FIRA Trophy. His last international game was against France in November 1987. He scored 6 tries during his international career, 24 points on aggregate. He captained his national side from 1976 to 1987.[2]
Paraschiv was player and assistant coach at the 1987 Rugby World Cup. He played in all the three games, scoring a try in the 21–20 win over Zimbabwe in May 1987 in Auckland.
Coaching career
editAfter retiring as a player, he became a full-time coach. He coached Dinamo Bucharest, from 1988 to 2006, where he led the club to success, winning 8 league titles and 4 Romanian Cups.[2]
Paraschiv was the head coach of Romania at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Constantin Fugigi. Romania had three losses but achieved an honourable defeat of 21–8 to future champions South Africa. He was also the head coach at the 1999 Rugby World Cup, achieving a 27–25 win over the United States.
He was chosen as the coach of Farul Constanţa in 2010.
References
edit- ^ a b Thau, Chris (24 January 2020). "Mircea Paraschiv – rugby-ist român de legendă – premiat la Londra". RFI România (in Romanian). Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Mircea Paraschiv – cel mai tanar capitan din istoria echipei nationale". Romanian Rugby Federation (in Romanian). 25 November 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
External links
edit- Mircea Paraschiv at ESPNscrum
- Mircea Paraschiv at the World Rugby Museum Wall of Fame Official Site at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-11-21)
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