Georghe Popescu "Pope" - Top Soccer Legends

Gheorghe Popescu (9 October 1967) is a resigned Romanian previous expert football protector, previous skipper of FC Barcelona and key piece of the Romania national group during the 1990s. He played for a string of European clubs in that period, including a four-year stretch at PSV Eindhoven and winning the Uefa cup with Galatasaray SK. His strategic information as a safeguard made him an important colleague in top European rivalries until he arrived at his late-thirties. Alongside from his safeguarding aptitudes, he was likewise proficient beginning assaults. He is the brother by marriage of individual Romanian worldwide Gheorghe Hagi.

Universitatea Craova and Tottenham Hotspur

In the wake of playing six seasons for Universitatea Craiova, Popescu was advanced to Romanian goliaths Steaua Bucharest arriving at the semi-finals of the European Cup during their 1987–88 battle. He moved to another country to the Netherlands in 1990, and marked for PSV Eindhoven in line with Sir Bobby Robson, helping them to keep among the top Dutch sides, until he was moved to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on 9 September 1994 for an expense of £2.9million. He played multiple times in the Premier League and scored three goals as Spurs. Their most noteworthy completion for a long time. He likewise helped them to arrive at the FA Cup semi-finals, where they lost 4–1 to inevitable cup champs Everton.

Barcelona

After not exactly a year in England, he left Tottenham to finish paperwork for the Spanish club Barcelona for £3million, succeeding Ronald Koeman in the group. He made chief of the Catalan club, adding to their Copa del Rey greatness in his first season and their UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup triumph in his second.

Galatasaray

Subsequent to leaving Barcelona throughout the mid year of 1997, he moved to Galatasaray of Turkey, where he went through four years and won a few significant trophies, incorporating the UEFA Cup in May 2000. Where Galatasaray vanquished Arsenal, key adversaries of his old club Tottenham, on punishments after a goalless attract open play and he scored the last extra shot in the punishment shootout.

Other Clubs

He spent the 2001–2002 season in Italy with Serie A club Lecce, before coming back to his local Romania for a short spell with Dinamo Bucharest, before ending up with a season in Germany with Hannover 96.

International Career

Gheorghe Popescu was never outside the best four in the Romanian Footballer of the Year grants for a long time from 1989 until 2001. He was as of late casted a ballot into Romanian footballs unequaled World Cup group. At universal level, Popescu is Romania’s untouched third most topped players with 115, in which he scored 16 goals. He played for his nation in the 1990, 1994, and 1998 World Cups, Euro 96 and Euro 2000. He additionally entered the emblematic however restrictive hover of players with an era of tops.