Anghel Iordănescu

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Anghel Iordănescu
Anghel Iordănescu.jpg
Iordănescu 2008
Personnel
birthday May 4th 1950
place of birth Bucharest ,  Romania
size 176 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1962-1968 Steaua Bucharest
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1982 Steaua Bucharest 317 (155)
1982-1984 OFI Crete 34 00(6)
1985-1986 Steaua Bucharest 0 00(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971-1981 Romania 64 0(26)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1984-1986 Steaua Bucharest (assistant coach)
1986-1990 Steaua Bucharest
1990-1992 Anorthosis Famagusta
1992-1993 Steaua Bucharest
1993-1998 Romania
1998-1999 Greece
1999-2000 Al-Hilal
2000 Rapid Bucharest
2001-2002 Al Ain Club
2002-2004 Romania
2005-2006 Al-Ittihad
2006 Al Ain Club
2014-2016 Romania
1 Only league games are given.

Anghel "Puiu" Iordănescu (born May 4, 1950 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach . He was also a politician . In 1986 he was able to win the European Cup as a player . As a coach he was the national coach of Romania and Greece and won the AFC Champions League twice as a club coach . He is considered one of the most successful Romanian trainers together with Ștefan Kovács , Mircea Lucescu and Emeric Jenei .

Career as a player

Anghel Iordănescu was a striker with good shooting technique. He achieved a good goal rate and took top positions with his teams almost throughout. Iordănescu started playing football at the age of twelve at Steaua Bucharest . On November 17, 1968 he made his debut in the first team in Divizia A , the highest Romanian football league. The game, however, went 1: 2 against Politehnica Iași . He remained loyal to Steaua for 14 years and was able to win the Romanian championship twice and the Romanian Cup four times. In 1982 Iordănescu was the most successful goalscorer in Divizia A with 20 goals. In the same year, at the age of 32, he moved to Greece to OFI Crete . After two years he returned to Steaua and became a co-trainer. In the 1986 European Cup final against FC Barcelona , Iordănescu came on as a substitute and at the end of his career he won the European Cup .

In 1971 Iordănescu was appointed to the Romanian national football team and played his first game against Albania on April 18, 1971 . He was about to score a goal. He played a total of 64 games and scored 26 goals. A participation in world or European championships was denied him because Romania could not qualify for it during this time. In 1981 he played his last international match against Switzerland .

Iordănescu is the most successful goalscorer in the history of Steaua Bucharest with 155 league goals.

Career as a coach

Iordănescu began his coaching career in 1984 after his return from Greece as co-coach of Emerich Jenei at Steaua Bucharest. After winning the European Cup in 1986, Jenei was appointed national coach. This made Iordănescu head coach of Steaua. Under his direction, Steaua won the Romanian Championship and the Romanian Cup three times in a row (1987 to 1989). He also reached the semi-finals in the European Cup in 1987/88 and the final in 1988/89 , which was lost 4-0 to AC Milan .

After the runner-up in 1990 Iordănescu moved to Cyprus to Anorthosis Famagusta . After two runner-up championships, he returned to Steaua in 1992. In the 1992/93 season he again won the Romanian championship and reached the quarter-finals in the European Cup Winners' Cup .

In the summer of 1993 Iordănescu succeeded Cornel Dinu as the Romanian national coach. After successfully qualifying, he reached the quarter -finals of the 1994 World Cup in the USA after victories against Colombia , the USA and Argentina , in which the team was eliminated on penalties against Sweden . Then Romania was able to prevail in the qualification for the European Football Championship in England in 1996 , but was eliminated in the preliminary round. Iordănescu also qualified for the 1998 World Cup in France . After victories against Colombia and England, Romania was eliminated in the round of 16 against Croatia . After the defeat, he announced his resignation.

In the same year Iordănescu was coach of the Greek national football team . After he could not fulfill his job, the qualification for the European Football Championship 2000 , he was dismissed in 1999.

Then Iordănescu 2000 coach of the Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal , with whom he won the Asian Cup and the Asian Supercup in the same year . Despite these successes, Iordănescu hired Rapid Bucharest , but was dismissed after a few weeks due to lack of success. He then moved to the United Arab Emirates to the Al Ain Club .

After Romania had missed the qualification for the World Cup in 2002 , Iordănescu replaced Gheorghe Hagi and was national coach for the second time. Although he missed his goal of qualifying for the 2004 European Football Championship , he was allowed to remain national coach due to a lack of alternatives in order to qualify for the 2006 World Cup . After a 1-1 draw in Armenia , Iordănescu was released in November 2004.

On March 24, 2005, he signed a contract with the Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad , with which he won the AFC Champions League in 2005. A year later he was released due to unsuccessfulness. In mid-June 2006 he signed a one-year contract with the Al Ain Club in the United Arab Emirates, but resigned from his position in the week after the 2-4 loss to Al-Wasl on November 19, 2006 and ended despite some lucrative offers from others Unite his coaching career for the time being.

After a few years in which Iordănescu worked as the sporting director of the Romanian Football Association, he accepted the nomination of FRF President Răzvan Burleanu to take over the Romanian national team and hereby returned to the coaching stage after an 8-year break. This project was approved by the Romanian Football Association on October 27, 2014. Thus, Iordănescu began his third term with the Romanian national football team with the game against Northern Ireland, which was played on November 14 of the same year in the Bucharest National Stadium. The young coaches Isaila, Badea and Moldovan were assigned to him as assistant coaches. With the national team, he qualified for the Euro 2016 in France behind Northern Ireland, but ahead of Hungary and Finland. In the tournament, the team only got one point and lost to Albania, among others. Romania finished last in the group and were eliminated. Then Iordănescu's contract was not extended and his third term as national coach ended.

successes

Success as a player

Success as a trainer

Others

Iordănescu is a general in the Armata Română (Romanian army). In February 2008 he took over the senatorial mandate for the last ten months , which had become free for the PSD in the Ilfov district after the resignation of Teodor Filipescu . In the elections for the next legislative term, Iordănescu managed a successful candidacy. In 2009 he broke away from the PSD, but kept the senatorial post. His eldest son, Eduard Iordănescu (born June 16, 1978), was also a soccer player and was interim coach of Steaua Bucharest in September 2010 for a cup and a first division game until Marius Lăcătuş took over the coaching post.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 9AM of March 26, 2005 , accessed November 30, 2011 (Romanian)
  2. ↑ www.alainclub.com , News from August 18, 2006
  3. ↑ AFC.com of October 18, 2007 , accessed November 29, 2010 (English)
  4. ↑ Romania: go coach Iordanescu must , Weltfussball.de, June 27, 2016
  5. ↑ Evenimentul Zilei of January 24, 2009 , accessed on November 29, 2010 (Romanian)

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personal data
SURNAME Iordănescu, Anghel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iordănescu, Puiu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian soccer player, coach and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest