Personal information | |||
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Full name | Octavian Andrei Ionescu | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 1 October 1949||
Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania [1] | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder [1] | ||
Youth career | |||
1963–1967 | Steaua București | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1968–1969 | Universitatea Cluj | 10 | (1) |
1969 | Politehnica Galați | ||
1970–1972 | CFR Cluj | 65 | (19) |
1972–1983 | Sportul Studențesc București | 315 | (62) |
1983–1984 | Olympiakos Nicosia | ||
Total | 390 | (82) | |
International career | |||
1976 | Romania | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Octavian Andrei Ionescu (born 1 October 1949) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a midfielder. [2] [3] [4]
Octavian Ionescu played two games at international level for Romania, both of them being friendlies against Czechoslovakia. [5]
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