Mircea Sandu is a retired Romanian football (soccer)

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...

 player. He was a striker

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

 with Sportul Studenţesc

Sportul Studentesc

Sportul Studenţesc is a Romanian football club that was established in 1916 . The Bucharest club has won the Balkans Cup once and its best result in the Romanian league is a 2nd place in 1986...

, where he played from 1971-1986.

Sandu is president of the Romanian Football Federation

Romanian Football Federation

The Romanian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Romania. It organizes the Romania national football team and most of the Romanian football competitions. It is based in the Romanian capital city of Bucharest...

 since 1990, and was re-elected in 2005 and in 2010. He is currently a member of the UEFA Executive Committee.

He has scored 166 goals in Liga I

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"...

, being ranked 7th in the all time scoring table, but he has never been the top scorer in a single season.

His nickname is "The Godfather

The Godfather

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".

External links

• Mircea Sandu's profile on romaniansoccer.ro