Adrian Dumitru Mihalcea (born 24 May 1976) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, currently in charge of Liga I club Unirea Slobozia.
Mihalcea started the 2001 season for Dinamo in excellent form, scoring 11 goals in 14 league matches, and earned 5th place in the competition for the 2001 Romanian Footballer of the Year award.
After the experience in Italy, a return to Dinamo Bucharest in 2004 was disappointing, with Mihalcea struggling for goals as the team narrowly missed out on the Romanian championship.
Mihalcea was sold again at the end of that season, in the summer of 2005, this time to South-Korean club Chunnam Dragons, but he only played five games without scoring there and because he could not adapt to the Asian style of life and football he came back home.
He helped the team maintain its place in the second division in 2012–13 season, and in June 2013 he announced his retirement, citing his desire to start his coaching career.
[2] Mihalcea's international career with Romania has not lived up to his early promise, as he played ten times for the Romanian under-21 team, scoring three goals, and was tipped to be a star of the future by Ilie Dumitrescu.