Marin Andrei

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Marin Andrei
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Andrei with Rapid București in 1963.
Personal information
Date of birth (1940-10-22) 22 October 1940 (age 84)
Place of birth Târgoviște, Romania
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1959–1962 Metalul Târgoviște [a] 23 (0)
1962–1968 Rapid București 73 (0)
1968–1969 Steaua București 8 (0)
1969 Progresul București 8 (0)
1970–1972 Dinamo București 22 (0)
1972–1973 Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea 13 (0)
Total147(0)
International career
1964 Romania Olympic 3 (0)
1965 Romania 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marin Andrei (born 22 October 1940) is a Romanian former footballer. [1] He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. [2]

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Club career

Andrei was born on 22 October 1940 in Târgoviște, Romania. [1] He started his senior career in 1959, playing for Metalul Târgoviște in Divizia B. [1] After two seasons, they managed to promote to Divizia A, a competition where Andrei made his debut on 20 August 1961 in a 3–1 victory against UTA Arad. [1] In 1962, he went to play under the guidance of coach Valentin Stănescu at Rapid București. [3] Andrei was an important player in the first three seasons spent with The Railwaymen as the team managed to be runner-up in all of them, and also in the 1964–65 Divizia A season he set a competition record for goalkeepers of 770 minutes without conceding a goal. [1] [3] [4] [5] In the 1966–67 season he helped Rapid win the first title in its history, but Stănescu used him in only three games, because Rică Răducanu was the team's first-choice goalkeeper. [1] [3] [4] [6] In 1968, Andrei went for one season at Steaua București where he made eight league appearances, having a hard competition with international goalkeepers Carol Haidu and Vasile Suciu, managing to win the Cupa României. [1] [4] [7] He went to play for Progresul București in the second league for half a year, after which he signed with Dinamo București, thus becoming the first player to play for Rapid, Steaua and Dinamo. [1] [3] [4] He won the 1970–71 Divizia A title with Dinamo in which coaches Nicolae Dumitru and Traian Ionescu used him in only four matches, as Mircea Constantinescu was the team's first-choice goalkeeper. [1] [6] Andrei also made three appearances for the club in the 1971–72 European Cup, helping them get past Spartak Trnava in the first round, keeping a clean sheet in the first leg, but they got eliminated in the following round by Feyenoord. [1] [8] He made his last Divizia A appearance on 5 December 1971 in Dinamo's 3–1 away loss to SC Bacău, totaling 126 matches in the competition. [1] Andrei ended his career after playing one season in the second league for Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea with whom he won the 1972–73 Cupa României. [1] [7]

In 1967, Andrei was contacted by Peruvian champion Club Universitario de Deportes, who wanted a European goalkeeper, but was denied a transfer there by Romania's communist regime. [4]

International career

Andrei played one game for Romania on 23 October 1965 under coach Ilie Oană in a 2–1 loss to Turkey in the 1966 World Cup qualifiers. [9] [10] He also played for Romania's Olympic team, starting with a friendly that ended with a 2–1 victory against Yugoslavia. [7] [4] [11] Afterwards he was chosen by coach Silviu Ploeșteanu to be part of the 1964 Summer Olympics squad in Tokyo, appearing in a 1–0 victory against Iran and in a 4–2 win over Ghana, helping the team finish in fifth place. [7] [4] [12]

Honours

Metalul Târgoviște

Rapid București

Steaua București

Progresul București

Dinamo București

Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea

Notes

  1. ↑ The statistics for the 1959–60 and 1960–61 Divizia B seasons are unavailable. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Marin Andrei at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marin Andrei". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Marin Andrei, omul care a stabilit cu Rapid un record acum 53 ani!" [Marin Andrei, the man who set a record with Rapid 53 years ago!] (in Romanian). 1923.ro. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ""Am crescut un urs în vestiar!". GSP a redescoperit primul fotbalist care a jucat la Dinamo, Rapid și Steaua, deținătorul recordului all-time de minute la rând fără gol primit în Divizia A" ["I raised a bear in the locker room!". GSP rediscovered the first footballer to play for Dinamo, Rapid and Steaua, the holder of the all-time record of minutes in a row without a goal received in Division A] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "Andrei Vlad, #1 în istoria FCSB! Locul 6 într-un top uriaș: peste Prunea și Duckadam" [Andrei Vlad, # 1 in the history of FCSB! 6th place in a huge top: over Prunea and Duckadam] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Marin Andrei at National-Football-Teams.com
  8. ↑ "Acum 50 de ani ne băteam cu cei mari" [50 years ago we were fighting with the big ones] (in Romanian). Welovesport.ro. 6 March 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
    "Marin Andrei. Champions League 1971/1972". WorldFootball. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  9. ↑ "Marin Andrei". eu-football.info. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  10. ↑ "Turkey 2-1 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  11. ↑ "Yugoslavia vs. Romania 1 – 2". WorldFootball. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  12. ↑ "Cum a fost ultima participare a României la Olimpiadă, în 1964, când "tricolorii" au pierdut dramatic sfertul cu Ungaria" [How was Romania's last participation in the Olympics, in 1964, when "The Tricolors" dramatically lost the quarter to Hungary] (in Romanian). Theplaymaker.ro. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
    "Romania vs. Iran 1 – 0". WorldFootball. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
    "Romania vs. Ghana 4 – 2". WorldFootball. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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