Dudu Georgescu

Georgescu was born on 1 September 1950 in Bucharest, Romania. He began his career at Progresul București, making his Divizia A debut on 11 June 1969 under coach Cornel Drăgușin in a 3–0 victory against Universitatea Craiova in which he played as a central defender. After playing for Progresul in the first two leagues for a few years, Georgescu went to play for a short while at CSM Reșița, where he scored a double in a 4–1 victory against Dinamo București, which convinced them to transfer him. His Dinamo spell consisted of 10 Divizia A seasons in which he won four league titles and was the team's top-scorer in the first three of those. In the conquest of the first one he was coached by Nicolae Dumitru, in the next two by Ion Nunweiller and Valentin Stănescu respectively, while at the last he worked once again with Dumitru. He won the 1981–82 Cupa României in which he scored two goals in the final that ended with a 3–2 win over FC Baia Mare, Stănescu using him the entire match. Georgescu also made some notable individual performances such as being the Divizia A top-scorer four consecutive times from 1975 until 1978 and winning the European Golden Shoe in 1975 (33 goals) and 1977 (47 goals). He won the Romanian Footballer of the Year award in 1976 and was nominated three times for the Ballon d'Or. With 207 goals scored (including nine in the derby against Steaua București) in 260 Divizia A matches, Georgescu is Dinamo's all time leading top-scorer. He represented The Red Dogs…

Georgescu played 40 matches and scored 21 goals for Romania (44/21 including Romania's Olympic team games), making his debut on 14 September 1973 under coach Valentin Stănescu in his national team's biggest ever victory, a 9–0 win in which he scored one goal against Finland in the 1974 World Cup qualifiers. He scored four goals in five matches in the Euro 1976 qualifiers and made three appearances in which he scored two goals during the 1977–80 Balkan Cup. Then he played four games and scored two goals in the 1978 World Cup qualifiers, and made two appearances with two goals netted in a 2–2 draw against Spain during the Euro 1980 qualifiers. Subsequently, he made one appearance in each of the 1982 World Cup qualifiers and the 1984 Euro qualifiers. Georgescu's last game for the national team was 1–0 friendly victory against China. For helping his country qualify to Euro 1984, Georgescu was decorated by President of Romania Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.

After he ended his playing career, Georgescu coached Romanian teams such as CSM Reșița, Corvinul Hunedoara, Acvila Giurgiu and Dunărea Călărași. He also had coaching spells outside Romania at Moldovan side Zimbru Chișinău and in Saudi Arabia at Al-Najma.

His son, who is also named Dudu Georgescu, was a football referee who officiated matches including in the Romanian top-division, Divizia A.