Radu Nunweiller

Radu Nunweiller (born 16 November 1944) is a former Romanian central midfield football player and manager.

Club career

Nunweiller was born on 16 November 1944 in Bucharest, Romania. He had an Austrian father named Johann Nunweiller, who settled in Piatra Neamț after World War I where he met his wife, Rozina, and later they moved to Bucharest. He had six brothers: Constantin, the oldest, was a water polo player, while Dumitru, Ion, Lică, Victor, and Eduard were all footballers who each played at least one spell at Dinamo București. Nunweiller made his Divizia A debut, playing for Viitorul București on 21 October 1962 under coach Gheorghe Ola in a 4–2 loss to Steaua București.

After playing only one league match for Viitorul, Nunweiller went to play for Dinamo București where in his first two seasons he won two titles. In the first he worked with coaches Traian Ionescu and Nicolae Dumitru who gave him five appearances in which he netted two goals. He would score two more goals against Steaua in two victories, a 3–0 and a 1–0. For the way he played in 1969, Nunweiller was placed third in the ranking for the Romanian Footballer of the Year award, and in the following year, he was in fourth place. In the 1970–71 season he won another title, playing alongside his brother Ion, as coaches Dumitru and Ionescu used him in 30 games in which he netted five times. They would also win the 1974–75 title together, but this time Ion was the assistant coach of Nicolae Dumitru who gave Nunweiller 29 appearances in which he scored twice. In the 1975–76 edition he played in a 1–0 victory against Real Madrid.

Nunweiller ended his career after playing three seasons for Corvinul Hunedoara, making his last Divizia A appearance on 11 September 1978 in a 1–0 home loss to FC Baia Mare, totaling 333 appearances and 40 goals in the competition.

Nunweiller played 41 matches and scored two goals for Romania (42/2 including Romania's Olympic team games), making his debut on 21 September 1966 under coach Ilie Oană in a 2–0 friendly loss to East Germany. His following game was a 1–0 loss to Italy in the 1968 Euro qualifiers. Subsequently, coach Angelo Niculescu used him for the entirety of all three games in the final tournament which were a win against Czechoslovakia and losses to England and Brazil, as his side failed to progress from their group.

International goals Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Nunweiller goal.

Honours Player Dinamo București Divizia A: 1963–64, 1964–65, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75 Cupa României: 1963–64, 1967–68 Romania U18 UEFA European Under-18 Championship: 1962 Individual Romanian Footballer of the Year (third place): 1969, (fourth place): 1970

Manager Yverdon-Sport Swiss Challenge League: 2004–05