Ion Ionescu (footballer, born 1938)

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Ion Ionescu
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Personal information
Full name Ion Gheorghe Ionescu
Date of birth (1938-04-05) 5 April 1938 (age 86)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Rapid București
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1960–1968 Rapid București 183 (107)
1968–1970 Alemannia Aachen 46 (10)
1970 Crișul Oradea 1 (0)
1970–1972 Cercle Brugge 30 (8)
Total260(125)
International career
1962–1969 Romania [a] 24 (5)
Managerial career
1978–1979 Gloria Buzău
1980–1981 Rapid București
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ion Gheorghe Ionescu (born 5 April 1938) is a Romanian former football striker. [3]

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Club career

Rapid București

Ion Gheorghe Ionescu, nicknamed "Puiu" was born on 5 April 1938 in Bucharest, Romania, growing up in the Cotroceni neighborhood. [4] [5] [6] He made his Divizia A debut, playing for Rapid București under coach Ion Mihăilescu on 30 October 1960 in a 2–0 loss in front of Minerul Lupeni. [4] [7] He spent eight seasons at Rapid, making a successful couple in the team's offence with Emil Dumitriu, winning two times the top-goalscorer of Divizia A title in the 1962–63 season with 20 goals and in 1965–66 with 24 goals. [4] [5] [6] In the 1966–67 season, under the guidance of coach Valentin Stănescu he helped Rapid win the first league title in the club's history, being the team's top-goalscorer with 15 goals scored in 22 matches. [4] [5] [8] [9] In the following season he appeared in four matches in the 1967–68 European Cup campaign, scoring one goal against Trakia Plovdiv which helped Rapid advance to the following round where they were eliminated by Juventus. [4] [10] Ionescu reached three Cupa României finals, playing in the last two, the first two from 1961 and 1962 under the guidance of coach Ion Mihăilescu were lost in front of Arieșul Turda respectively Steaua București while at the one from 1968 he was coached by Stănescu in the loss with Dinamo București. [11] [12] [13] For the way he played in 1967, Ionescu was placed fourth in the ranking for the Romanian Footballer of the Year award. [14]

Transfer at Alemannia Aachen

In October 1967 Rapid played a friendly game against Alemannia Aachen in which Ionescu scored two goals and in December Romania's national team played a friendly against Aachen in which Ionescu scored three goals. [6] [15] These five goals impressed the leaders of the German club who wanted to transfer Ionescu to their team. [6] [15] During Romania's communist era, transfers of Romanian footballers outside the country were rarely allowed, Ionescu had to convince the Romanian Football Federation to allow the transfer and he managed to do so after having a meeting with communist politician Gheorghe Apostol who talked to Leonte Răutu and helped Ionescu receive approval for his transfer in Germany, thus becoming the first Romanian footballer who obtained in the communist regime the right to play abroad. [5] [6] [15] Aachen paid $100,000 and a bus for his transfer and Ionescu made his Bundesliga debut on 17 August 1968 under coach Michael Pfeiffer in a 4–1 away victory against Nürnberg scoring a total of 7 goals in 24 league matches by the end of his first season spent at the club, making a successful couple in the team's offence with Roger Claessen, helping the team finish second in the championship. [4] [5] [6] [15] [16]

Late career

After two years spent in West Germany at Alemannia Aachen, Ionescu came back in Romania to play for Crișul Oradea where he made his last Divizia A appearance on 28 June 1970 in a 0–0 with Dinamo Bacău, having a total of 184 matches in which he scored 107 goals in the competition. [4] [5] He ended his career by playing two seasons at Cercle Brugge, a team he helped promote from the second to the first league. [4] [5]

International career

Ion Ionescu played 15 games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 23 December 1962 when coach Silviu Ploeșteanu sent him on the field at half-time to replace Cicerone Manolache in a friendly which ended with a 3–1 loss against Morocco. [1] [17] His following three games were at the 1966 World Cup qualifiers. [1] In a friendly against Greece which ended with a 2–1 victory, Ionescu scored his first two goals for the national team. [1] [18] His following three games were at the Euro 1968 qualifiers in which he scored two goals in a 7–0 victory against Cyprus. [1] [19] Ionescu's last game for the national team was a 2–2 against Greece at the 1970 World Cup qualifiers. [1] [20] Ionescu also played nine games for Romania's Olympic team, being chosen by coach Ploeșteanu to be part of the 1964 Summer Olympics squad from Tokyo where he played four games and scored one goal in a 3–1 victory against Mexico helping the team finish on the fifth place. [2] [21]

International goals

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ionescu goal. [1]
List of international goals scored by Ion Ionescu
#DateVenueCapOpponentScoreResultCompetition
18 March 1967 Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens, Greece 7Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg  Greece 1–12–1 Friendly
22–1
323 April 1967 23 August Stadium, Bucharest, Romania 8Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 4–07–0 Euro 1968 qualifiers
47–0

Managerial career

Ion Ionescu started his managerial career in 1978 at Divizia B club, Gloria Buzău which he helped promote by the end of the season to Divizia A where he coached it the full 1978–79 season. [6] [22] He had another experience at Rapid București, afterwards retiring from his coaching activity and working as a lawyer and for a short while as a judge. [6]

Honours

Player

Rapid București

Alemannia Aachen

Cercle Brugge

Manager

Gloria Buzău

Individual

Notes

  1. ↑ Including 9 appearances and one goal for Romania's Olympic team. [1] [2]

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  9. ↑ "Interviu cu Ion Ionescu, golgheterul all-time al Rapidului, la 53 de ani de la primul titlu câștigat" [Interview with Ion Ionescu, Rapid's all-time top scorer, 53 years after the first title was won] (in Romanian). Eurosport.ro. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
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