Vasile Anghel

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Vasile Anghel
Anghel (left) during a Dinamo training session in 1957
Personal information
Date of birth (1937-11-22)22 November 1937[1]
Place of birth Buzău, Romania[1]
Date of death 12 September 2014(2014-09-12) (aged 76)[2]
Place of death Bucharest, Romania[2]
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position Forward[1]
Youth career
1950–1954 Locomotiva CFR Buzău
1954 Voința București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955 Progresul București
1956–1962 Dinamo București[b] 84 (13)
1963 Petrolul Ploiești 8 (3)
Metalul Buzău
Total 92 (16)
International career
1957–1959 Romania[a] 5 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vasile Anghel (22 November 1937 – 12 September 2014) was a Romanian footballer who played as a forward.[5]

Club career

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Anghel was born on 22 November 1937 in Buzău, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1950 at local club Locomotiva CFR.[1][6][7] In 1954 he ended his junior period at Voința București, then he started his senior career at Divizia B club Progresul București.[1][6][7]

Anghel joined Dinamo București where he made his Divizia A debut under coach Angelo Niculescu on 11 April 1956 in a derby against CCA București which ended with a 4–0 loss.[1][6][7][8] He played in the first European match for a Romanian team during the 1956–57 European Cup, a 3–1 victory against Galatasaray.[9][10] The Red Dogs advanced to the next phase of the competition where they were eliminated by CDNA Sofia, Anghel making three appearances in the campaign.[9][10] He played the entire match under coach Iuliu Baratky in the 1959 Cupa României final, managing to score a goal in the 4–0 victory against CSM Baia Mare, helping Dinamo win the first Cupa României trophy in their history.[1][6][11][12] In the 1961–62 season, he was used by coaches Traian Ionescu, Constantin Teașcă and Nicolae Dumitru in five games as Dinamo won the title.[1][4][13] Then in the following season the club won another title, with Anghel being used by Ionescu and Dumitru in only three games in the first half of the season.[1][4][13] He was transferred to Petrolul Ploiești for the second half where he won the 1962–63 Cupa României, but coach Ilie Oană did not use him in the final.[1][4][14] Anghel made his last Divizia A appearance, playing for The Yellow Wolves on 9 June 1963 in a 2–0 away loss to Știința Timișoara, having a total of 92 matches with 16 goals in the competition, also totaling four appearances in the European Cup and one in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.[1][2][5][15]

After he ended his playing career at Metalul Buzău, Anghel worked as Dinamo București's president from 1980 until 1988, a period in which the club won three league titles, two cups and reached the European Cup semi-finals in the 1983–84 edition.[2][5][6][7] He also worked as a technical director for Petrolul Ploiești from 1988 to 1989 and Rapid București between 1989 until 1990.[2][5][6][7]

International career

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Anghel played four games for Romania, making his debut on 1 June 1957 under coach Gheorghe Popescu in a 1–1 friendly draw against Soviet Union.[3][16] His following games were a 2–1 win over Greece and a 1–1 draw against Yugoslavia in the 1958 World Cup qualifiers.[3] His last appearance for the national team took place on 26 April 1959 in a 2–0 away loss to Turkey in the 1960 European Nations' Cup qualifiers.[3]

Death

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Anghel died on 12 September 2014, aged 76 in Bucharest after suffering a heart attack.[2][5][6][7]

Honours

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Dinamo București

Petrolul Ploiești

Notes

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  1. ^ Including one appearance for Romania's Olympic team [3][4]
  2. ^ The 1957 championship called Cupa Primăverii is unofficial, so the appearances at that competition for Dinamo București are not official.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Vasile Anghel at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ a b c d e f "A murit Vasile Anghel, fost jucător și președinte la Dinamo. De numele său se leagă cel mai mare succes european al echipei" [Vasile Anghel, former player and president at Dinamo, died. The biggest European success of the team is linked to his name] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Vasile Anghel". European Football. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Vasile Anghel at National-Football-Teams.com
  5. ^ a b c d e "Fostul jucator si conducator al FC Dinamo, Vasile Anghel, a decedat" [Former player and executive of FC Dinamo, Vasile Anghel, has died] (in Romanian). RomanianSoccer.ro. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "A murit Vasile Anghel, omul de care se leagă cea mai importantă performanţă europeană a lui Dinamo" [Vasile Anghel died, the man to whom Dinamo's most important European performance is linked] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Zi tristă pentru dinamoviști. Fostul președinte Vasile Anghel a trecut în neființă" [Sad day for Dinamo fans. The former president Vasile Anghel passed away] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1956". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  9. ^ a b "RETRO GSP. 64 de ani de la primul meci european al unei echipe românești. Dinamo i-a scos pe turci, apoi a urmat măcelul!" [RETRO GSP. 64 years since the first European match of a Romanian team. Dinamo took out the Turks, then the slaughter followed!] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  10. ^ a b "Vasile Anghel. European Cup 1956/1957". WorldFootball. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  11. ^ a b "Romanian Cup 1958–59". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  12. ^ "Finala Cupei României 1959: Dinamo – CSM Baia Mare 4-0" [The Cupei României Final 1959: Dinamo – CSM Baia Mare 4-0] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  14. ^ "Romanian Cup 1962–63". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  15. ^ Vasile Anghel at WorldFootball.net
  16. ^ "Soviet Union - Romania 1:1". European Football. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
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