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(s) 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, correct 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 went to play for Jiul Petroșani where on 12 August 1979 he made his Divizia A debut in a 1–0 home loss to Sportul Studențesc București. [1] In the 1983–84 season, Varga netted a personal record of eight league goals. [1]

In 1985 he went at Dinamo București, managing in his first season to win the Cupa României, coach Mircea Lucescu using him all the minutes in the final which ended with a 1–0 victory against rivals Steaua București who had recently just won the European Cup. [1] [3] During his spell with The Red Dogs he played 12 games in European competitions, most notably making 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] [4]

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 all the minutes in a 1–0 away loss to Ferencváros. [1] [5] [6] 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] [5]

International career

Between 1982 and 1987, Varga made several appearances for Romania's Olympic and B teams. [7]

Personal life

His son, Dacian was also a footballer. [8]

Honours

Dinamo București

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ioan Varga at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ↑ Ioan Varga at WorldFootball.net
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. 1 2 "Ioan Varga profile" (in Hungarian). Nela.hu. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "Ferencvárosi TC - Újpesti TE 1 : 0" (in Hungarian). Magyarfutball.hu. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "Ioan Varga profile". 11v11. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "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.
  9. ↑ "Romanian Cup - Season 1985 - 1986". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
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