Sever Coracu

Club career

"Left winger, unique for his speed, international football player, athletic, with a perfect strike of the ball with both feet, finisher par excellence if he was well valued, exceptional counter-attacking player" — Dr. Constantin Rădulescu talking about Sever Coracu In 1938 he went to play for Universitatea Cluj, first at the junior team. Subsequently, he made his first league debut under coach Iosif Kovács in a 2–1 home loss to Sportul Studențesc București.

Coracu stayed with "U" Cluj in the hardest period of the club's history, because in 1940, the team moved from Cluj-Napoca to Sibiu as a result of the Second Vienna Award, when the northern part of Transylvania was ceded to Hungary. In 1945, after the end of the Second World War and the return of the northern part of Transylvania to Romania, "U" returned to its home in Cluj. Also in the 1940–41 Divizia A season he scored a brace in a 3–2 home loss to eventual champions, Unirea Tricolor București, one of them being directly from a corner kick. In the 1941–42 unofficial Cupa Basarabia he scored six goals in a 17–0 home win over CFR Sibiu. After the war in which some of the club's players died, the team had to earn its right to play in Cluj, having to defeat Ferar Cluj. In 1950 he went to play for Divizia B side Locomotiva Cluj where he stayed until he retired in 1952. He also appeared in a 1–0 loss to Albania in the 1946 Balkan Cup.

Death Coracu died in 1993 in Cluj-Napoca.

Honours Universitatea Cluj Cupa României runner-up: 1941–42, 1948–49