Ioan Lupescu
[2][7] In the following season the club won The Double with Lupescu playing 29 Divizia A matches with four goals scored, also playing all the minutes in the 6–4 victory from the 1990 Cupa României final against rivals Steaua București and he appeared in six matches in which he scored one goal against Partizan Belgrade in the 1989–90 European Cup Winners' Cup as Dinamo reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated after 2–0 on aggregate by Anderlecht.[2][3][4][5][8][9][11] His biggest performances achieved during his six seasons spent at the club were under coach Dragoslav Stepanović which consisted of the triumph in the 1992–93 DFB-Pokal and the reaching of the 1994–95 UEFA Cup semi-finals where they were eliminated by the eventual winners of the competition, Parma, with Lupescu making 10 appearances in the campaign.[16] Afterwards he played eight games and scored one goal at the Euro 1992 qualifiers, made 9 appearances and scored 3 goals at the successful 1994 World Cup qualifiers, being part of the "Golden Generation" that passed the group stage, eliminated with a 3–2 victory Argentina in the eight-finals, being eliminated after the penalty shoot-out by Sweden in the quarter-finals of the final tournament, being used by coach Anghel Iordănescu as a starter in all five games.[16][22][23] Ioan Lupescu's last game played for the national team took part on 7 October 2000 in a 3–0 away loss in front of Italy at the 2002 World Cup qualifiers.[3][32][33] In 2010 he appeared in the "Be free" video of Smiley's band Radio Killer alongside Senegalese international footballer, Ousmane N'Doye and former tennis ATP number 1, Ilie Năstase.