As it became known a while ago, Ruxi Dumitrescu’s funeral will take place on Wednesday, March 6 at 12 noon in Romania, specifically in the city of Govora.
The news of Ruxi Dumitrescu’s death was released by the Romanian federation, with the following post:
“Good way to the stars, Ruxi Dumitrescu. Terrible news in Romanian women’s volleyball! On Sunday afternoon, at the age of just 46, Ruxi Dumitrescu, a former great player who played for both the Romanian and Greek national teams, left us. Born in Valcea, she played for the first time in the league with Dacia Pitesti. He then went to Greece, captained Panathinaikos Athens and was the best player for the Greek national team at the Athens Olympics in 2004. As a mark of respect, the Greeks retired the number 10 shirt when he announced his retirement.
She had returned to our country and was a coach at Alpha Volleyball Sibiu. Sadly, her heart stopped Sunday night, forever. We will keep her memory alive! Good way to the stars, Ruxi Dumitrescu.”
Ruxi Dumitrescu: Panathinaikos’ announcement
With its announcement, Panathinaikos said goodbye to the iconic captain of the women’s volleyball team.
“The Panathinaikos Athletic Club expresses its deepest condolences for the unexpected loss of the iconic captain of the women’s volleyball team, Ruxi Dumitrescu. The Association was deeply saddened by the news of the death of Ruxi Dumitrescu, who passed away from a heart attack at the age of just 46.
Dumitrescu was the emblematic figure of Finnish girls in modern history and in fact for a few months she was the ambassador of Panathinaikos in Romania. It was a small token of the Association’s respect for the athlete who held up the green flag.
Born in the city of Valcea, she started her volleyball career with Dacia Pitesti in Romania, and was an international with both the Romanian national under-20 team from 1992 and the women’s team, when she competed at the Volleyball World Championships in Brazil at the age of 17. .
In 1997, she came to Greece for the Vrilissia team that won a championship and three Greek cups. Ruxi Dumitrescu has written her own history with the green colors and honored the green jersey from 2003 to 2010.
In total with Panathinaikos he won 6 A1 championships (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), 7 Greek Cups (2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010), while he was twice awarded MVP in Cup finals ( 2005, 2008). At the European level, he won second place in the Challenge Cup (2009).
He returned in 2013 and competed for one season with Iraklis Kifisias.
She competed with the Greek National Team for five years starting at the 2004 Olympic Games in the first participation of women’s volleyball in an Olympic event and won the silver medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Spain.
As a memorial, we keep some of her words that she had said about the Association in the past
-“If I could go back in time, I would have come to Panathinaikos earlier”.
-“The world of Panathinaikos has passed me by. They made me Panathinaikos and this is how I express myself. Many people have accused me of speaking like a fan and I shouldn’t because I’m an athlete. But I do this because I feel like it
-“The flag of Panathinaikos is one and has the Shamrock on it. We athletes are passers-by from Panathinaikos”.
“I want to thank the people of Panathinaikos because they always respected us and did not pay attention to our appearance but to our way of playing. And if we played in an astronaut uniform, we would still receive the same applause.”
Ruxi Dumitrescu was the first wife of the silver medalist, Alexandros Nicolaidis, who passed away two years ago. The couple had a son, Philip. Ruxi Dumirescu and Alexandros Nicolaidis had separated with the 46-year-old in recent years living permanently in Romania where she had a volleyball academy.
Ruxi Dumitrescu: Her last post
In her latest post on Facebook, Ruxi Dumitrescu uploaded photos of herself in a Panathinaikos shirt and wrote:
“In our 30s we worry about what other people think of us.
In our 40s we don’t care what they think of us.
In our 50s we discover that they are not thinking about us.
Why don’t we think like that about the 1920s?’
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