Angelo Niculescu
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Niculescu in 1970 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Angelo Niculescu | ||
| Date of birth | 1 October 1921 | ||
| Place of birth | Craiova, Romania | ||
| Date of death | 20 June 2015 (aged 93) | ||
| Place of death | Bucharest, Romania | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1937–1939 | Rovine Grivița Craiova | ||
| 1939–1944 | FC Craiova | ||
| 1945–1947 | Carmen București | ||
| 1947–1948 | Ciocanul București | 29 | (1) |
| 1948–1950 | Dinamo București | 17 | (0) |
| Total | 46 | (1) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1952 | Dinamo București (juniors) | ||
| 1953–1957 | Dinamo București | ||
| 1958 | Steaua București | ||
| 1958–1959 | Tractorul Brașov | ||
| 1964–1966 | Dinamo București | ||
| 1967–1972 | Romania | ||
| 1973–1977 | Sportul Studențesc București | ||
| 1977–1979 | Politehnica Timișoara | ||
| 1979–1980 | Dinamo București | ||
| 1980–1981 | SC Bacău | ||
| 1981–1983 | Universitatea Cluj | ||
| 1983–1984 | Oțelul Galați | ||
| 1991–1992 | Club Africain (technical director) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Angelo Niculescu (1 October 1921 – 20 June 2015) was a Romanian football player and manager. He is best remembered in Romania for being the national team's coach at the 1970 World Cup and for inventing the "temporizare" ("delaying") tactics in which the team keeps the possession of the ball inside its own half and the players are using many short passes from one side to another of the field in order to disrupt the opponents patience when they go out of their field to make pressing, this is also considered an early form of tiki-taka, with such tactics he managed to qualify Romania to a World Cup after more than 30 years and register a win against Czechoslovakia.