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Flavius Domide
Romanian footballer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flavius Virgil Domide (born 7 May 1946)[3] is a Romanian former football striker.
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Domide (bottom row, second from the left) with UTA Arad in 1965
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Domide (left) with UTA teammate Gheorghe Gornea in 1970
Domide was born on 7 May 1946 in Arad, Romania and began playing football as a child on the streets of the Pârneava neighborhood.[4] He later went to play for the juniors of UTA Arad.[3][4][5] He made his Divizia A debut on 28 August 1966 in UTA's 0–0 draw against Rapid București.[3][4][5] Under the guidance of coach Nicolae Dumitrescu, Domide won two consecutive league titles with The Old Lady in the 1968–69 and 1969–70 seasons, at the first contributing with eight goals scored in 30 appearances and in the second he played 29 games and netted a personal record of 11 goals.[4][5][6] He also made some European performances with UTA, such as eliminating defending champions Feyenoord in the 1970–71 European Cup season.[3][4] In the 1971–72 UEFA Cup, Domide helped them reach the quarter-finals, playing eight matches in the campaign, scoring two goals against Austria Salzburg, one against Zagłębie Wałbrzych, one against Vitória Setúbal and his team's only goal in the 3–1 aggregate loss to Tottenham Hotspur who eventually won the competition.[4][5][7] He made his last Divizia A appearance on 10 June 1979 in UTA's 1–0 home loss to Gloria Buzău, having a total of 342 games with 75 goals in the competition, and also totaling 16 matches with six goals in European competitions.[3][4][5] Domide retired in 1980, after he spent the last year of his career at Vagonul Arad in the third division, helping them gain promotion to the second division.[4]
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Domide with Romania, featured on a Panini card
Domide played 17 matches and scored three goals for Romania (19/3 including Romania's Olympic team games), making his debut on 6 November 1968 when coach Angelo Niculescu sent him in the 77th minute to replace Nicolae Dobrin in a friendly that ended in a 0–0 draw against England.[1][8] His following game was a 2–0 victory against Switzerland in which he scored a goal in the successful 1970 World Cup qualifiers.[1][9] Domide was selected by Niculescu to be part of the squad that went to the final tournament, however he did not play a single match there.[1][3][4][9] He played five matches in the 1972 Euro qualifiers, managing to reach the quarter-finals where Romania was defeated by Hungary, who advanced to the final tournament.[1] Domide's last game for the national team was a 1–1 draw against Finland in the 1974 World Cup qualifiers.[1]
For representing his country at the 1970 World Cup, Domide was decorated by President of Romania Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.[10][11]
International goals
- Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after the player's goal.[1]
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Personal life
A book about Domide was written by Radu Romănescu and Ionel Costin, called Flavius Domide – copilul teribil al fotbalului arădean (The terrible child of Arad football), which was released with the occasion of his 70th birthday.[4][12]
Honours
UTA Arad
Vagonul Arad
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