Ioan Varga

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Ioan Varga
Personal information
Date of birth (1959-01-05) 5 January 1959 (age 66) [1]
Place of birth Iclod, Romania [1]
Position Midfielder / Centre back [1] [2]
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1978–1979 Mureșul Deva 20 (1)
1979–1985 Jiul Petroșani 188 (30)
1985–1989 Dinamo București 120 (15)
1989–1990 Jiul Petroșani 38 (1)
1991 Újpest 15 (0)
Total381(47)
International career
1982 Romania B 1 (0)
1986–1987 Romania Olympic 8 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 24 January 2020

Ioan Varga (born 5 January 1959) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a midfielder. [1]

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Club career

Varga was born on 5 January 1959 in Iclod, Romania. [1] He started his senior football career in 1978 at Divizia B club Mureșul Deva. [1] After one season he joined Jiul Petroșani where on 12 August 1979 he made his Divizia A debut under coach Nicolae Oaidă in a 1–0 home loss to Sportul Studențesc București. [1] [3] In the 1983–84 season, Varga netted a personal record of eight league goals. [1]

In 1985 he went to Dinamo București. [1] In his first season he won the Cupa României, coach Mircea Lucescu using him the entire match in the final which ended with a 1–0 victory against rivals Steaua București who had recently won the European Cup. [4] During his spell with The Red Dogs, Varga played 12 games in European competitions. [1] Notably, he made six appearances in the 1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup campaign as the team reached the quarter-finals where they were eliminated on the away goals rule after 1–1 on aggregate by Sampdoria. [1] [5]

In 1989, Varga returned to Jiul Petroșani where on 9 December 1980 he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 3–1 home loss to Gloria Bistrița, having a total of 346 matches with 46 goals netted in the competition. [1]

In 1991 he had his only experience outside Romania at Hungarian side, Újpest. [1] He made his Nemzeti Bajnokság I on 9 March, as coach Ferenc Kovács used him the entire match in a 1–0 away loss to Ferencváros. [1] [6] [7] Varga made a total of 15 appearances in the Hungarian league, his last one taking place on 15 June 1991 in a 1–0 home win against Békéscsaba, retiring afterwards from professional football. [1] [6]

International career

Between 1982 and 1987, Varga made several appearances for Romania's Olympic and B teams. [8]

Personal life

His son, Dacian, was also a footballer. [9]

Honours

Dinamo București

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Ioan Varga at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ↑ Ioan Varga at WorldFootball.net
  3. ↑ "Jiul Petrosani vs Sportul Studențesc 1-0". Labtof. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "Romanian Cup - Season 1985 - 1986". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
    "Finale de nota 10 Dinamo – Steaua, 1986. Au băut dintr-o cupă găurită" [Grade 10 Finals Dinamo – Steaua, 1986. They drank from a cup with holes] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  5. ↑ "Dinamo, reunire cu gandul la Sampdoria" [Dinamo, reunited with the fought at Sampdoria] (in Romanian). Jurnalul.ro. 9 January 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
    "Ioan Varga. Cup Winners Cup 1988/1989". WorldFootball. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Ioan Varga profile" (in Hungarian). Nela.hu. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "Ferencvárosi TC - Újpesti TE 1 : 0" (in Hungarian). Magyarfutball.hu. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  8. ↑ "Ioan Varga profile". 11v11. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Varga, sfătuit de tatăl său să meargă la Dinamo: "Acolo îi va fi bine!"" [Varga, advised by his father to go to Dinamo: "He'll be fine there!"] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
    "Dacian Varga sfatuit sa mearga la Dinamo!" [Varga advised to go to Dinamo] (in Romanian). Sport.ro. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
    "Dacian Varga, rebel" [Dacian Varga, rebel] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 25 May 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
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