Nicolae Pescaru (27 March 1943 – 25 May 2019) was a Romanian football play and manager, who worked mostly for Steagul Roșu Brașov.
[1][2] He spent a total of 19 seasons at Steagul of which about 13–14 of them he was the team's captain, being known for telling his teammates:"You have to defend the honor of being flagbearers!
"[1][2][3] The highlights of this period being a fourth place in the 1964–65 Divizia A season and 11 games played in European competitions in which he scored a goal in the 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 4–2 victory against Espanyol Barcelona and played in the 3–2 victory on aggregate against Beşiktaş at the 1974–75 UEFA Cup, also the club relegated twice to Divizia B, but Pescaru stayed with the club, helping it promote back to the first division each time.
[1][5][8] Nicolae Pescaru played three friendly games at international level for Romania, making his debut under coach Angelo Niculescu, when he came as a substitute and replaced Ion Dumitru at half-time in a 2–0 loss against France.
[9][11][12] Pescaru was a member of Steagul Roșu Brașov's "Mexican trio", alongside Stere Adamache and Mihai Ivăncescu who were part of Romania's 1970 Mexico World Cup squad, but he did not play in the tournament.