Dumitru Moraru

Dumitru Moraru (born 8 May 1956) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper from 1972 until 1991.

Club career Moraru was born on 8 May 1956 in București, Romania, growing up in the Pantelimon neighborhood, where he started playing football in 1966 at the junior teams of Metalul București. There, he earned the nickname "Țețe" (Tsetse) after a teammate told him in a training camp that he sleeps so much as if he had been bitten by a tsetse fly.

In 1978 he went to play for three seasons at Sportul Studențesc București where he won the 1979–80 Balkans Cup. The following two were won after finals against rivals Steaua, and in the 1986 final, under coach Mircea Lucescu he managed to keep a clean sheet in the 1–0 win against them, a team that had recently won the European Cup. Moraru made some notable performances with The Red Dogs in European competitions, such as helping the club eliminate Inter Milan in the 1981–82 UEFA Cup. For the way he played in 1984, Moraru was placed fifth in the ranking for the Romanian Footballer of the Year award.

After eight seasons spent at Dinamo, Moraru alongside teammates Costel Orac and Alexandru Nicolae were transferred to Victoria București. There, he made his last Divizia A appearance on 5 November 1989 in a 5–0 home win over Inter Sibiu, totaling 393 matches in the competition and 33 games in European competitions. He played one game in each of the 1978 and 1982 World Cup qualifiers. Moraru played one game under coach Mircea Lucescu in the final tournament in a 1–0 loss to Portugal as Romania did not get past the group stage. He made one appearance during the 1986 World Cup qualifiers which was a 2–0 victory against Finland, then kept another clean sheet in a 4–0 win over Austria in the Euro 1988 qualifiers.

Honours Steaua București Divizia A: 1975–76, 1977–78 Cupa României: 1975–76

Sportul Studențesc București Balkans Cup: 1979–80

Dinamo București Divizia A: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84 Cupa României: 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86

Individual Romanian Footballer of the Year (fifth place): 1984