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Valentin Stănescu
Personal information
Date of birth (1922-11-20)20 November 1922
Place of birth București, Romania
Date of death 4 April 1994(1994-04-04) (aged 71)
Position Goalkeeper
Youth career
1933–1941 Olimpia București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1941–1942 Malaxa Tohan
1942–1946 Sportul Studențesc București[a] 10 (0)
1946–1947 Carmen București 12 (0)
1947–1952 Locomotiva București[b] 39 (0)
Total 61 (0)
International career
1947 Romania 5 (0)
Managerial career
1953–1955 Locomotiva MCF București
1955–1958 Dunărea Giurgiu
1958–1959 Unirea Focșani
1959–1963 Metalul Târgoviște
1963–1968 Rapid București
1964 Romania Olympic
1968–1971 Steagul Roșu Brașov
1971 Romania Olympic
1971–1972 Steaua București
1973–1975 Romania
1976–1978 Petrolul Ploiești
1979–1980 Universitatea Craiova
1980–1981 Romania
1980–1982 Dinamo București
1982–1984 Rapid București
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Valentin Stănescu (20 November 1922 – 4 April 1994) was a Romanian football goalkeeper and manager. Stănescu and Constantin Cernăianu are the only two coaches who have managed the big three Bucharest city rivals, Steaua, Dinamo, and Rapid.

Club career

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Stănescu, also known as "Tinel" or "Zimbrul" (The bison), was born on 20 November 1922 in Bucharest, Romania and began playing junior-level football at age 11 in 1933 at local club Olimpia.[1][3][4][5][6] In 1942 he joined Malaxa Tohan for a short while, before moving to Sportul Studențesc București for three years, during which he played a Cupa României final that was lost with 4–0 to CFR Turnu Severin.[1][3][7][8][9] He made his Divizia A debut playing for Carmen București under coach Petre Steinbach on 16 March 1947 in a 3–2 away victory against Dermagarand Târgu Mureș.[1][3][7][8][10] At the end of the season, the Carmen team was dissolved by the Communist regime that just took over the country.[11][12][13][14] Stănescu and teammate Bazil Marian attempted to flee to Italy by boarding a ship in the Port of Constanța.[11][12][13][14] However, the authorities apprehended them, offering a choice between imprisonment or playing for a working-class team like Locomotiva București, and they both chose the latter option.[11][12][13][14] He played for Locomotiva until he ended his career, making his last Divizia A appearance on 27 May 1951 in a 2–1 home loss to Steaua București, totaling 51 matches in the competition.[1] However, he spent his last season in Divizia B as the club was relegated, but Stănescu stayed with the team, helping it gain promotion back to the first division after one year.[1][3][7]

International career

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Stănescu played five matches for Romania, making his debut on 22 June 1947 when coach Colea Vâlcov introduced him in the 71st minute to replace Stanislau Konrad in a 3–1 loss to Yugoslavia in the 1947 Balkan Cup.[3][15][16] He made two more appearances in that competition, a 3–2 victory against Bulgaria and a 3–0 loss to Hungary.[15] The latter was his last game played for the national team.[15]

Managerial career

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Stănescu (first from the left, back row) as head coach of Rapid București in 1965
Stănescu's Rapid squad, which he led to its first league title in 1967

Stănescu started his managerial career in 1953 at Locomotiva MCF București in the Romanian regional championship.[3][4][5][7] In 1955 he went to coach at Dunărea Giurgiu, after three years moving to Unirea Focșani in Divizia B, helping it avoid relegation.[3][4][5][7][8] In 1959 he started to coach Metalul Târgoviște, managing to gain promotion from Divizia C to Divizia B and later to Divizia A.[3][4][5][7][8] There, in his first season as coach in the first division, the team was relegated as it finished in 13th place.[1][3][4] In 1963, Stănescu went to coach Giulești based club Rapid București, where he created a team formed on the clubs juniors with some transfers including his former player from Dunărea Giurgiu Constantin Năsturescu and goalkeeper Răducanu Necula.[1][3][4][5][7] He was the first coach that implemented the 4–4–2 formation in Romanian football, thus creating a team that won the club's first title in the 1966–67 season.[1][3][4][5][17] Stănescu also won two Balkans Cups, becoming the first manager to achieve this performance.[4][6] In the following season he led Rapid in the 1967–68 European Cup, making his first European performance by eliminating Trakia Plovdiv with 3–2 on aggregate, being eliminated in the following round by Juventus Torino with 1–0 on aggregate.[4][18] In the same season he reached the 1968 Cupa României final which was lost with 3–1 in extra time to Dinamo București that was coached by his former Carmen București teammate, Bazil Marian.[3][11][12][19][20] He also coached Romania's Olympic team for a short while, achieving a 2–1 away victory in a friendly against Yugoslavia on 17 June 1964.[21][22][23] In 1968, Stănescu went to work for Divizia B team, Steagul Roșu Brașov, helping it win promotion to the first league after one year.[1][3][4][5][8] In 1971 he led for a second time Romania's Olympic team in the 1972 Summer Olympics qualifiers.[21][22][23][24] The team got past Albania with 4–2 on aggregate in the first round, qualifying for the next round.[21][22][23][24] There, they lost 2–1 in the away first leg against Denmark and he was replaced before the second leg.[21][22][23][24] In 1971, he took over Steaua București, leading them in the 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup campaign.[3][4][6][8] He made history by becoming the first Romanian coach to eliminate Barcelona with a 3–1 aggregate, though his team was defeated by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals on the away goal rule after a 1–1 aggregate.[3][4][6][8][25] Stănescu became the coach of Romania's national team in 1973, making his debut in a friendly which ended with a 2–0 away loss to the Soviet Union.[21][5][7] During his two-year spell, Romania managed its biggest ever victory, a 9–0 win against Finland in the 1974 World Cup qualifiers.[4][21][26] Stănescu took charge of Divizia B club Petrolul Ploiești in 1976, helping it gain promotion to the first league after one year.[3][4][5][7][8] In 1979 he went to coach Universitatea Craiova, a team he helped win the 1979–80 title.[1][3][4][5][17] While with "U" Craiova, he also became the first Romanian coach who eliminated a team from England, Leeds United, with 4–0 on aggregate in the second round of the 1979–80 UEFA Cup, also earning a 1–0 victory against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the following round.[4][7][6][8] In 1980 Stănescu went for a second spell at Romania's national team, earning a 2–1 home victory and a 0–0 away draw against England in the 1982 World Cup qualifiers, totaling 35 games across both of his spells, consisting of 11 victories, 14 draws and 10 losses.[4][5][7][8][21] From 1980 until 1982, he coached Dinamo București, simultaneously coaching Romania for the first year and a half of that period.[1][3][4][5][7] He helped The Red Dogs win The Double in his second season and managed to become the first Romanian coach who eliminated Inter Milan with a 4–3 victory on aggregate in the second round of the 1981–82 UEFA Cup.[3][4][6][8][27] In 1982 he returned to Rapid, helping them get promoted back to Divizia A after the club spent six years in Divizia B.[1][3][4][5][8] Stănescu was the first coach who won the Romanian top-division, Divizia A, with three different teams, having a total of 455 matches as a manager in the competition, consisting of 206 victories, 101 draws and 148 losses.[1][4][5][17][28]

Famous speech

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Stănescu admitted he was mostly attached to Rapid București among all the clubs he worked for, holding the following speech in front of the players during his 1980s tenure which remained popular in the club over the years: "Hey guys, are you listening? Let me tell you how things are. Rapid is not yours, it is not mine or the ministry's. Rapid belongs to over 100,000 railway workers from all over the country. It belongs to them, to their wives and children, to those who were, hundreds of thousands more, and who are no longer here and of those who will be after us! They are people who have worked and are working so that you can kick a ball, learn a book, become people. Do not disgrace Rapid! Whoever doesn't love the team does not have a choice, he'll have to love it like his mother and father. Here are your mother and father, house and table and sister and brother and lover and everything, everything you want and have holy in the world! From now on I'm your grandfather, but don't think that if I'm 60 years old, I have an easier hand. Whoever wants can leave now, because those who stay only leave the ship with their feet first!".[3][4][5]

Death

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Stănescu died on 4 April 1994 at age 71.[1][4][8]

Legacy

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The old Rapid Bucharest stadium was named after him in 2001.

The Giulești-Valentin Stănescu Stadium was a football stadium in the Giulești neighborhood of Bucharest.[3][8] The venue, named after him, was the home stadium of Rapid București for almost 80 years.[3][8]

Honours

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Player

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Sportul Studențesc București

CFR București

Manager

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Metalul Târgoviște

Rapid București

Steagul Roșu Brașov

Petrolul Ploiești

Universitatea Craiova

Dinamo București

Notes

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  1. ^ The Divizia A 1940–41 was the last season before World War II and the Divizia A 1946–47 was the first one after, so the appearances and goals scored during this period for Sportul Studențesc București are not official with the exception of the 1945–46 regional championship.[1][2]
  2. ^ The statistics for the 1952 Divizia B season are unavailable.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Valentin Stănescu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XXIV – "Ultimul șut aduce promovarea"" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XXIV - "The Last Shot Gets the Promotion"] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag "Povestea lui Valentin Stănescu, legenda care dă numele stadionului din Giulești" [The story of Valentin Stănescu, the legend that gives the name of the stadium in Giulești]. www.gsp.ro (in Romanian). 8 November 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af "100 de ani de la nașterea lui Valentin Stănescu, antrenorul care a eliminat Barcelona cu Steaua, Interul cu Dinamo, Leeds cu Craiova, dar care a iubit cu adevărat doar Rapidul" [100 years since the birth of Valentin Stănescu, the coach who eliminated Barcelona with Steaua, Inter with Dinamo, Leeds with Craiova, but who really loved only Rapidul]. www.gsp.ro (in Romanian). 20 November 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Mesajul de luptă din vestiarul Rapidului. Discursul pe care jucătorii lui Mutu îl văd înaintea fiecărui meci: "Cine nu iubește echipa n-are încotro, va trebui să o iubească la fel ca pe mă-sa și ca pe ta-su!"" [The battle message from the Rapid locker room. The speech that Mutu's players see before every match: "Whoever doesn't love the team has no choice, he'll have to love it like his own mother and father!"]. www.gsp.ro (in Romanian). 27 July 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
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  14. ^ a b c ""Bombardierul" Bazil Marian, omul-spectacol: A băut țuică în timpul unui meci și s-a așezat cu fundul pe minge, după ce driblase portarul!" ["Bombardier" Bazil Marian, the showman: He drank brandy during a match and sat with his bottom on the ball, after the goalkeeper had dribbled!]. Adevărul (in Romanian). 27 September 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
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  16. ^ "Romania 1-3 Yugoslavia". European Football. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
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  23. ^ a b c d "33 de meciuri dispar din palmaresul României" [33 matches disappear from Romania's record]. www.tribuna.ro (in Romanian). 17 January 2007. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
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