“You've never seen anything like this before!” » The Turks, stunned after noticing Şumudica at Mircea Lucescu's vigil

Marius Șumudică was Mircea Lucescu's player in the period 1997-1999, at Rapid Bucharest. At that time, Lucescu was the head coach. Their collaboration culminated in winning the title of champion in the 1998-1999 season and the Romanian Cup in 1998.

The Turkish press reacted after the images of Marius Șumudică at Mircea Lucescu's vigil: “You have never seen anything like this before!”

The images of Marius Șumudică reached Turkey, where the coach worked for different teams, such as Kayserispor, Gaziantep and Rizespor.

“You've never seen anything like this before! Şumudica cried bitterly as she said goodbye to Mircea Lucescu”, captioned the journalists from haberler.com.

Nea Mircea, when you get up and are there, know that we stayed here. I loved you, you will be forever in my heart. You made me a coach, you made me a man and I will never forget those things. I wasn't allowed to see him at the hospital, I couldn't get to where he was. I'm sorry and it's the regret of my life that I couldn't make it!

– Marius Šumudica

The unparalleled career of Mircea Lucescu

• Mircea Lucescu took his first steps in football at Dinamo Bucharest, the team with which he has spent most of his career. He also performed at Știința Bucharest and Corvinul Hunedoara.

• As a player, he won 7 championship titles and a Romanian Cup, all with Dinamo.

• Throughout his coaching career, he trained Corvinul, the Romanian national team, Dinamo, Pisa, Brescia, Reggiana, Rapid, Inter, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş, Shakhtior, Zenit, the Turkish national team and Dinamo Kiev.

• He won 36 trophies in his career as a technician: 9 times the championship of Ukraine, 8 times the Ukrainian Cup, 7 times the Ukrainian Supercup, 3 times the Romanian Cup, 2 times the Romanian championship, 2 times the Turkish championship, as well as the UEFA Cup, the European Super Cup, the Russian Super Cup and the Anglo-Italian Cup.