Traian Ionescu

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Traian Ionescu
Traian Ionescu 1965.jpg
Silvio Piola (left) with Traian Ionescu (1965)
Personnel
birthday July 17, 1923
place of birth Sălătrucu ,  Romania
date of death October 4, 2006
Place of death Bucharest ,  Romania
position goal
Juniors
Years station
1936-1939 TC Târgovişte
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1939-1941 Sporting Club Piteşti
1943-1945 Vulturii Lugoj
1945-1946 Sportul Muncitoresc Găvana
1946-1949 Juventus Bucharest
1949-1951 CCA Bucharest
1952 CA Câmpulung Moldovenesc
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1948-1949 Romania 5 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1952 CCA Bucharest (Assistant Trainer)
1954-1957 Petrolul Ploiesti
1959-1968 Dinamo Bucharest
1969-1970 Fenerbahçe Istanbul
1970-1971 Dinamo Bucharest
1973-1975 Sportul Studențesc
1975 Olimpia Satu Mare
1977-1988 Jiul Petroșani
1978-1980 FCM Bacau
1980-1981 Petrolul Ploiesti
1981 Steaua Bucharest
1982 Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea
1983 Morocco U20
1984-1985 FC Olt Scorniceşti
1 Only league games are given.

Traian Ionescu according to some sources also Trăian Ionescu (born July 17, 1923 in Sălătrucu , † October 4, 2006 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian football goalkeeper and coach . As a coach, he became one of the main co-founders of the Dinamo Bucharest team that dominated Romanian football in the first half of the 1960s and won the Romanian championship four times in a row . During his Turkey phase he won the Turkish championship with Fenerbahçe Istanbul in the 1969/70 season .

Player career

society

Ionescu learned to play football in the youth department of TC Târgovişte and switched to Sporting Club Piteşti at the age of 16. At this club he stayed for two seasons and then played for the clubs Vulturii Lugoj and Sportul Muncitoresc Găvana .

Ionescu's career began to develop rapidly when he joined Juventus Bucharest in 1946 . During this time Ionescu rose to the national goalkeeper. After these developments he was committed to the 1949/50 season of CSCA Bucharest , the later renamed in Steaua Bucharest club. As early as December 1949, he won the Cupa României with this club and won his first title at club level. With this club, which was renamed CCA Bucharest in 1950, succeeded in defending the title in the Romanian Cup the next season. In addition, Ionescu's club reached the first Romanian championship in the club's history in the first division season in 1951 .

1951 Ionescu left CCA and hired instead with the league rival and newcomer CA Câmpulung Moldovenesc . For this club he played one season and then ended his career.

National team

Ionescu made his international debut for the Romanian national team on June 20, 1948 in a friendly against the Bulgarian national team . By the summer of 1949, Ionescu completed four more international matches and was then no longer nominated.

Coaching career

Ionescu began his coaching career in 1952 by starting to work as an assistant coach at his former club CCA Bucharest . He left this club in the same year and began to look after Petrolul Ploieşti for three years from 1954 .

For the 1959/60 season he was hired as the new head coach at Dinamo Bucharest . At this club he became the most important co-founder of the team that dominated Romanian football for half a decade and won the Romanian championship four times in a row. In addition, the Romanian Cup was won in the 1963/64 season, winning the Romanian double for the first time in the club's history . Ionescu was active with small interruptions until 1968 for Dynamo and involved in all four championships as head coach. During this time at Dynamo he was also responsible for the discovery, promotion and further development of such later luminaries of Romanian football as Mircea Lucescu , Cornel Dinu , Florea Dumitrache , on Pârcălab , Radu Nunweiller and Constantin Frățilă .

At the end of April 1969 he left Dinamo for good and accepted the offer of the reigning Turkish champion Fenerbahçe Istanbul . The transfer also came about because Ionescu's former player Ion Nunweiller , who had switched to Fenerbahçe in the summer of 1968 , brought Ionescu up as Molnár's successor after the dismissal of Fenerbahçe master coach Ignác Molnár . Fenerbahçe only signed Ionescu until the end of the season. Although he could not have a positive record with Fenerbahçe in the remaining game days of the season, his way of working convinced both the players and most of the club officials. After the efforts of the club president Faruk Ilgaz to hire an English head coach failed or dragged on, he also agreed for Ionescu to stay. Ionescu and his team were able to emerge victorious in the preseason TSYD Istanbul tournament and thus get the first title of the season. In the league he quickly established himself with his team at the top of the table and kept it sovereign until the end of the season. His team finished the season 1969/70 in the then valid two-point rule with a seven-point lead over the runner-up Eskişehirspor and secured the sixth Turkish championship in the club's history. Ionescu told his club before the end of the season and the championship that he would definitely leave Fenerbahçe at the end of the season. After these developments, Fenerbahçe Ionescu managed to change his mind to remain, but the Romanian Football Association Ionescu refused to give the necessary clearance. Ionescu left Fenerbahçe at the end of June 1970.

After leaving Turkey, Ionescu took over Dinamo Bucharest for the second time. He left this club after just one season. In the following years he coached various Romanian clubs, but remained without a title with all clubs. In 1983 he briefly coached the Moroccan U-20 national team . As the last documented coaching activity, he looked after FC Olt Scorniceşti in the 1984/85 season .

successes

As a player

With CSCA Bucharest or CCA Bucharest

As a trainer

With Dinamo Bucharest
With Fenerbahçe Istanbul

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ April 15, 1969, Milliyet, p. 8: "F.Bahçe antrenörü geldi"
  2. ↑ April 22, 1969, Milliyet, p. 8: "Ionescu, F.Bahçe'de kalıyor"
  3. ↑ June 6, 1969, Milliyet, p. 12: "İlgaz Ionescu'ga kalma izni aldı"
  4. ↑ May 19, 1970, Milliyet, p. 12: "Mutluyuz, Fenerbahçemiz Șampiyon"
  5. ↑ May 1, 1970, Milliyet, p. 12: "Ionescu, F.Bahçe'den ayrılacağını bildirdi"
  6. ↑ May 27, 1970, Milliyet, p. 10: "ROMEN Futbol Federasyonu antrenör îonescu'ya izin vermedi"
  7. ↑ June 24, 1970, Milliyet, p. 10: "Antrenör Ionescu F.Bahçe'den ayrıldı"
personal data
SURNAME Ionescu, Traian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ionescu, Trăian (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian football goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Sălătrucu , Romania
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 2006
Place of death Bucharest , Romania