![]() Pantea with UTA Arad in 1966 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 12 February 1946 | ||
Place of birth | Beliu, Arad County, Romania | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1961–1964 | Rapid Arad | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1964–1966 | UTA Arad | 49 | (6) |
1966–1975 | Steaua București | 196 | (24) |
1975–1977 | Petrolul Ploiești | 1 | (0) |
Total | 246 | (30) | |
International career | |||
1971 | Romania Olympic | 1 | (0) |
1972–1973 | Romania | 2 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
1981–1983 | Steaua București (assistant) | ||
1984 | UTA Arad | ||
* Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Nicolae Pantea (born 12 February 1946) is a Romanian former footballer and manager.
Pantea was born on 12 February 1946 in Beliu, Arad County, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1961 at Rapid Arad for three years. [1] Subsequently, he went to UTA Arad and made his Divizia A debut on 30 August 1964 under coach Coloman Braun-Bogdan in a 3–0 away loss to Steagul Roșu Brașov. [1] [2] He reached with UTA the 1966 Cupa României final where coach Nicolae Dumitrescu used him the entire match in the 4–0 loss to Steaua București. [3] Shortly afterwards, Pantea joined Steaua, a team with whom he won the 1967–68 title in which coach Ștefan Kovács used him in six matches. [1] [4] He also won the Cupa României four times, in the years 1967, 1969, 1970 and 1971, but played only in the second and the latter of the finals. [1] [5] During his time with The Military Men he also made 14 appearances in European competitions. [1] Pantea played six games in 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup campaign, as the team reached the quarter-finals by eliminating Hibernians and Barcelona, being eliminated on the away goal rule after 1–1 on aggregate by Bayern Munich. [1] [6] After nine seasons spent at Steaua, Pantea went to play in Divizia B for Petrolul Ploiești, retiring shortly afterwards. [1] He has a total of 249 appearances with 30 goals scored in Divizia A and 35 matches in which he netted seven times in Cupa României. [1]
Pantea played two games for Romania, making his debut on 23 April 1972 under coach Gheorghe Ola in a friendly against Peru which ended in a 2–2 draw. [1] [7] [8] In his second match for the national team, he scored his first and only goal for The Tricolours , which was the fifth goal in the team's biggest ever victory, a 9–0 against Finland in the 1974 World Cup qualifiers. [7] [9] In 1971, Pantea also made an appearance for Romania's Olympic team in a 2–1 away victory against Albania. [1]
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 14 October 1973 | August 23 Stadium, Bucharest, Romania | ![]() | 5–0 | 9–0 | 1974 World Cup qualifiers |
Pantea first worked as a coach at Steaua's Center for Children and Juniors, in various age categories, and in parallel, in certain periods he was an assistant at Romania's national youth team. [1] In 1984, he was for a short time head coach at UTA Arad while the team was in Divizia B. [1] From 1985 until 1990, he was the head of Steaua's Center for Children and Juniors, then he worked for the Romanian Football Federation as a deputy general secretary, being responsible for the youth sector. [1] In 2000, he was the head of the Central Commission of Referees for a few months. [1] In 2016, the stadium from Pantea's native commune, Beliu, was renamed after him in his honor. [1]
UTA Arad
Steaua București
Petrolul Ploiești