Doru Popescu

Club career Popescu was born on 29 March 1949 in Baia de Aramă, Romania and began playing junior-level football at Dinamo București. He made his Divizia A debut on 16 August 1969 under coach Nicolae Dumitru in Dinamo's 5–2 home victory against Jiul Petroșani. Popescu won two league titles with The Red Dogs. At the first, coaches Dumitru and Traian Ionescu gave him 22 appearances in which he scored seven goals, while in the second he played 24 matches with four goals netted under coach Ion Nunweiller. However, both of them were lost, Popescu playing only in the 1971 final where he was a starter, being replaced in the 55th minute with Ion Haidu as they lost 3–2 to Steaua București. Subsequently, he played four games in the 1971–72 European Cup. After that game Romanian newspaper Sportul wrote:"A tall and broad Oltenia man from Severin, nicknamed Dulapul (The Cabinet), rather a reserve at Dinamo, entered at Trnava in the second half and made the match of his life".

Death Popescu died on 15 September 2023 at age 74.

Honours Dinamo București Divizia A: 1970–71, 1972–73 Cupa României runner-up: 1969–70, 1970–71