Ștefan Iovan

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Ștefan Iovan
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Ștefan Iovan (1988)
Personnel
birthday 23rd August 1960
place of birth Moțăței ,  Romania
size 185 cm
position Right full-back
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1980 FCM Reșița 46 0(7)
1978-1979 → Luceafărul Bucharest (loan) ? 0(?)
1980-1991 Steaua Bucharest 285 (18)
1991-1992 Brighton & Hove Albion 6 0(0)
1992 Steaua Bucharest 6 0(0)
1993-1995 Rapid Bucharest 67 0(2)
1995-1996 Electroputere Craiova 8 0(0)
1996-1997 CSM Reșița 13 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1990 Romania 35 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Steaua Bucharest (youth coach)
2000-2002 Steaua Bucharest (assistant coach)
2002-2004 Steaua Bucharest (assistant coach)
2004-2011 Romania (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Ștefan Iovan (born August 23, 1960 in Moțăței , Dolj County ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach . The defender denied 365 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A , and was captain of the team of Steaua Bucharest , which the European Champions Cup in 1986 won.

Player career

society

Iovan's career began at FCM Reșița , where he joined the first team at the age of 17 and played his first game in the highest Romanian football league, Divizia A , on September 4, 1977 . At the end of his first season he went to the club in the Divizia B from.

After a year with Luceafărul Bucharest , Iovan returned to Reșița in 1979. The Romanian top club Steaua Bucharest noticed him through his achievements and brought him to the capital in January 1981. In his first season he became a regular player. In the ten years that Iovan played for Steaua, he was able to win the Romanian championship five times and the Romanian cup four times with the club . The highlight of this time was winning the 1986 European Cup in Seville against FC Barcelona , when Iovan was allowed to receive the trophy as team captain . Three years later he was again in the finals , defeated in Barcelona but the AC Milan .

In the winter break in 1990/91 Iovan moved for a transfer fee of 200,000  US dollars abroad and joined Brighton & Hove Albion in the English Second Division at. The year and a half in England were not a good star, because Iovan was hardly used and in 1992 the club was relegated to the third division .

Iovan returned to Romania to Steaua, but was hardly used here either and switched to local rivals Rapid Bucharest during the winter break in 1992/93 . There he was able to fight for a regular place again. When he had lost this again in the 1994/95 season , he moved to league rivals Electroputere Craiova .

At the end of his career, he returned to his hometown club CSM Reșița in 1996 and helped to achieve promotion to Divizia A. In 1997 he hung up his soccer boots.

National team

Iovan played 35 games for the Romanian national football team , scoring three goals. He had his first use on June 1, 1983, when he came on in the friendly against Yugoslavia in the 81st minute for Michael Klein . At first he was only used in a few friendly matches and was only part of the national team from 1985.

Iovan was not allowed to participate in an international tournament. While the qualification for the 1986 World Cup and the 1988 European Championship was missed, he is one of the eleven who made the qualification for the 1990 World Cup in the game against Denmark on November 15, 1989 perfect. Nevertheless, he was not considered by national coach Emerich Jenei for the Romanian squad .

After the World Cup he was still a member of the national team, but was no longer considered by Gheorghe Constantin after the European Championship qualifier against San Marino on December 5, 1990 , as he was hardly used at his club Brighton & Hove Albion .

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Iovan initially worked as a youth coach for Steaua Bucharest before he became assistant to Victor Pițurcă at Steaua's first team in 2000 . He continued this commitment in Pițurcă's second term from 2002. In 2004 he followed him to the Romanian national team and was also his assistant coach until Pițurcă's dismissal in 2009. Then he was taken over by his successor Răzvan Lucescu . After Lucescu's resignation on June 4, 2011, Iovan was the interim coach of the Romanian national team during an international trip to South America.

successes

As a player

(all successes with Steaua Bucharest)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ prosport.ro of June 5, 2011 , accessed on June 6, 2011

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Iovan, Ștefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Moțăței , Dolj County