# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/costica-stefanescu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:28:51.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/costica-stefanescu"
name: "Costică Ștefănescu"
slug: "costica-stefanescu"
description: "Costică Ștefănescu was a Romanian professional football player and coach. He spent the majority of his playing career at Universitatea Craiova, where he made a club-record 378 appearances. He was the all-time appearance leader in Liga I with 490 matches, until his record was broken in October 2012 by Ionel Dănciulescu. In 1983, Ștefănescu was nominated for the Ballon d'Or. He played for Romania from 1977 to 1985, and was capped 64 times."
tagline: "Romanian footballer (1951-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Costic%C4%83_%C8%98tef%C4%83nescu_1983cr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1951-03-26"
deathDate: "2013-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.487179487179485
  historical:           16.15356533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Costică Ștefănescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Costică Ștefănescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "코스티커 슈테퍼네스쿠"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Costică Ștefănescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Costică Ștefănescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump