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Vasile Anghel
Personal information
Date of birth (1937-11-22)22 November 1937[1]
Place of birth Buzău, Romania[1]
Date of death 12 September 2014(2014-09-12) (aged 76)[2]
Place of death Bucharest, Romania[2]
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward[1]
Youth career
1950–1954 Locomotiva CFR Buzău
1954 Voința București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955 Progresul București
1956–1962 Dinamo București[b] 84 (13)
1963 Petrolul Ploiești 8 (3)
Metalul Buzău
Total 92 (16)
International career
1957–1959 Romania[a] 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vasile Anghel (22 November 1937 – 12 September 2014) was a Romanian footballer who played as a forward.[5]

Club career

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Vasile Anghel was born on 22 November 1937 in Buzău, Romania and he started to play football at junior level in 1950 at local club, Locomotiva CFR.[1][6][7] In 1954, he ended with junior period at Voința București, afterwards starting his senior career at Divizia B club, Progresul București.[1][6][7]

He went to play for Dinamo București where he made his Divizia A debut under coach Angelo Niculescu on 11 April 1956 in a derby against CCA București which ended with a 4–0 loss.[1][6][7][8] He played in the first European match of a Romanian team in the 1956–57 European Cup in the 3–1 victory against Galatasaray, helping The Red Dogs go to the next phase of the competition where they were eliminated by CDNA Sofia, appearing in a total of 3 games from the campaign.[9][10] Anghel played all the minutes under the guidance of coach Iuliu Baratky in the 1959 Cupa României final, managing to score a goal in the 4–0 victory against CSM Baia Mare, helping Dinamo win the first Cupa României trophy in the club's history.[1][6][11][12] In the 1961–62 season, he was used by coaches Traian Ionescu, Constantin Teașcă and Nicolae Dumitru in five games as Dinamo won the title, then in the following season the club won another title with Anghel being used by Ionescu and Dumitru in only three games from the first half of the season, being transferred at Petrolul Ploiești for the second half where he won the 1962–63 Cupa României but coach Ilie Oană did not use him in the final.[1][4][13][14] Anghel made his last Divizia A appearance, playing for The Yellow Wolves on 9 June 1963 in a 2–0 away loss against Știința Timișoara, having a total of 92 matches and 16 goals scored in the competition, also he has four appearances in the European Cup and one in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.[1][2][5][15]

After he ended his playing career at Metalul Buzău, Anghel worked as Dinamo București's president from 1980 until 1988, a period in which the club won three league titles, two cups and reached the European Cup semi-finals in the 1983–84 edition, also he worked as a technical director at Petrolul Ploiești from 1988 until 1989 and Rapid București from 1989 until 1990.[2][5][6][7]

International career

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Vasile Anghel played four games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 1 June 1957 under coach Gheorghe Popescu I in a friendly which ended 1–1 with Soviet Union.[3][16] His following games were a 2–1 away victory against Greece and a 1–1 with Yugoslavia at the 1958 World Cup qualifiers, his last appearance taking place on 26 April 1959 in a 2–0 away loss in front of Turkey at the 1960 European Nations' Cup qualifiers.[3]

Death

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Vasile Anghel died on 12 September 2014, aged 76 in Bucharest after suffering a heart attack.[2][5][6][7]

Honours

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Dinamo București

Petrolul Ploiești

Notes

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  1. ^ Including one appearance for Romania's Olympic team [3][4]
  2. ^ The 1957 championship called Cupa Primăverii is unofficial, so the appearances at that competition for Dinamo București are not official.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Vasile Anghel at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ a b c d e "A murit Vasile Anghel, fost jucător și președinte la Dinamo. De numele său se leagă cel mai mare succes european al echipei" [Vasile Anghel, former player and president at Dinamo, died. The biggest European success of the team is linked to his name] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Vasile Anghel". European Football. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d Vasile Anghel at National-Football-Teams.com
  5. ^ a b c d "Fostul jucator si conducator al FC Dinamo, Vasile Anghel, a decedat" [Former player and executive of FC Dinamo, Vasile Anghel, has died] (in Romanian). RomanianSoccer.ro. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "A murit Vasile Anghel, omul de care se leagă cea mai importantă performanţă europeană a lui Dinamo" [Vasile Anghel died, the man to whom Dinamo's most important European performance is linked] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Zi tristă pentru dinamoviști. Fostul președinte Vasile Anghel a trecut în neființă" [Sad day for Dinamo fans. The former president Vasile Anghel passed away] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1956". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  9. ^ "RETRO GSP. 64 de ani de la primul meci european al unei echipe românești. Dinamo i-a scos pe turci, apoi a urmat măcelul!" [RETRO GSP. 64 years since the first European match of a Romanian team. Dinamo took out the Turks, then the slaughter followed!] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Vasile Anghel. European Cup 1956/1957". WorldFootball. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  11. ^ a b "Romanian Cup 1958–59". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  12. ^ "Finala Cupei României 1959: Dinamo – CSM Baia Mare 4-0" [The Cupei României Final 1959: Dinamo – CSM Baia Mare 4-0] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  13. ^ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  14. ^ "Romanian Cup 1962–63". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  15. ^ Vasile Anghel at WorldFootball.net
  16. ^ "Soviet Union - Romania 1:1". European Football. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
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