Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 22 October 1940 | ||
Place of birth | Târgoviște, Romania | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1959–1962 | Metalul Târgoviște [lower-alpha 1] | 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) |
Total | 147 | (0) | |
International career | |||
1964–1965 | Romania | 4 [lower-alpha 2] | (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. [3]
Marin Andrei started his senior career playing for Metalul Târgoviște in Divizia B and after two seasons he managed to promote to Divizia A, a competition where he made his debut on 20 August 1961 in a 3–1 victory against UTA Arad. [1] After one Divizia A season with Metalul he went to play under the guidance of coach Valentin Stănescu at Rapid București. [4] Andrei was an important player in the first three seasons spent with The Railwaymen as the team managed to be runner-up in all three years, also in the 1964–65 Divizia A season he set a competition record for goalkeepers of 770 minutes without receiving a goal. [1] [4] [5] [6] In the 1966–67 Divizia A season he helped Rapid win the first title in the club's history, playing only three games, as the team's first choice for the goalkeeper position was Rică Răducanu. [1] [4] [5] [7] The next season, Andrei played four games in the league, after which he went to play for one season at Steaua București, where he made eight league appearances, having a hard competition with international goalkeepers Carol Haidu and Vasile Suciu, also managing to win the Cupa României. [1] [5] [8] He went to play for Progresul București in the second league for a half of year, after which he signed with Dinamo București, thus becoming the first player to play for Rapid, Steaua and Dinamo. [1] [4] [5] He won the 1970–71 Divizia A title with Dinamo in which he played four games, as the team's first choice for the goalkeeper position was Mircea Constantinescu. [1] [7] Also he made three appearances for the club in the 1971–72 European Cup, helping the club pass 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] [9] [10] Marin Andrei ended his career after playing one season in the second league for Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea with whom he won the Cupa României. [1] [8]
In 1967, Andrei was contacted by Peruvian champion Club Universitario de Deportes, who wanted a European goalkeeper, but was denied a transfer there because the Romania's communist regime did not allow it. [5]
Marin Andrei played one game for Romania on 23 October 1965 under coach Ilie Oană in a 2–1 loss against Turkey at the 1966 World Cup qualifiers. [2] [11] Andrei also played for Romania's Olympic team in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 victory against Yugoslavia, also playing two games at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, appearing in a 1–0 victory against Iran and in a 4–2 victory against Ghana, helping the team finish in the 5th place. [8] [5] [12] [13] [14]
Metalul Târgoviște
Rapid București
Steaua București
Progresul București
Dinamo București
Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea
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