Traian Georgescu
Traian Georgescu was a Romanian football defender who spent his entire career at [FC FC Universitatea Cluj|Universitatea Cluj|Universitatea Cluj]. He was "U" Cluj's captain when the club won the 1964–65 Cupa României.
Career
Georgescu was born on 20 March 1931 in Ploiești, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1946 at local club Prahova, then switched teams in 1948, going to neighboring club Concordia. He went to college at the Faculty of Medicine in Cluj-Napoca, where he started to play senior-level football at Universitatea, making his Divizia A debut on 15 April 1951 under coach Iuliu Baratky in a 4–1 away loss to Flacăra Petroșani. In the same year, he scored a hat-trick in Universitatea's 3–1 victory against CCA București, and the press considered the second goal the most beautiful of that season for "U", as Georgescu made a run from the center of the field and with a 20-meter shot, he defeated goalkeeper Ion Voinescu. By the end of his first season he would score a total of six goals, in addition to the hat-trick against CCA, he scored once against each of Dinamo București, Locomotiva Timișoara and Flacăra Mediaș, the latter being in the Cupa României. In 1954 he was called up by Romania's national team coach, Ștefan Dobay for a friendly against Hungary, but he did not play. After the team was relegated in 1956, Georgescu stayed with the club, also becoming the team's captain after Mircea Luca retired, helping it get promoted back to the first league after one year in which he scored four goals in 23 matches. He helped "U" Cluj win the 1964–65 Cupa României, being used the entire match by coach Andrei Sepci in the 2–1 victory in the final against Dinamo Pitești. Subsequently, Georgescu played three games in the 1965–66 European Cup Winners' Cup, helping The Red Caps eliminate Austrian team, Wiener Neustadt in the first round, being eliminated in the following round by Atlético Madrid. He retired shortly after the double against the Spaniards, having a total of 280 Divizia A games with 13 goals scored.Personal life
He also worked as a surgeon and when his team colleague Remus Câmpeanu was diagnosed with appendicitis, Georgescu was the one who performed the surgery on him at Câmpeanu's request.Georgescu died in 2008 a few years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.