Vasile Anghel

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

Vasile Anghel

Anghel (left) during a Dinamo training session in 1957
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[a]	84	(13)
1963	Petrolul Ploiești	8	(3)
	Metalul Buzău
Total		92	(16)
International career
1957–1959	Romania[b]	5	(0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

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 his junior period at Voința București, then he started 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 three 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.^[1][4][13] Then in the following season the club won another title with Anghel being used by Ionescu and Dumitru in only three games in the first half of the season.^[1][4][13] He was transferred to 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][14] Anghel made his last Divizia A appearance, playing for The Yellow Wolves on 9 June 1963 in a 2–0 away loss to Știința Timișoara, totaling 92 matches and 16 goals scored in the competition, and he also 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.^[2][5][6][7] He also 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

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

Death

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

Honours

Dinamo București

• Divizia A: 1961–62, 1962–63^[1][4]
• Cupa României: 1958–59^[1][11]

Petrolul Ploiești

• Cupa României: 1962–63^[4]

Notes

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