Florian Radu was a Romanian footballer who played for hometown club Rapid Bucureşti. When the Communists

Communist Romania

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 took over Romania, Radu moved abroad in Italy

Italy

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 and France

France

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 playing for AS Roma

A.S. Roma

Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s...

, Cosenza, Marsala

S.C. Marsala 1912

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 and few other teams until his retirement in 1956.

Radu has earned only one cap for Romania on 11 October 1942 in a 2–2 draw against Croatia

Croatia national football team

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 scoring on his debut.

He served as head coach for Stade Athletique Spinalien

SAS Épinal

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 in France.

External links

• Florian Radu profile at RomanianSoccer.ro