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	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 began playing junior-level football 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]

Anghel joined 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 for a Romanian team during the 1956–57 European Cup, a 3–1 victory against Galatasaray.^[9][10] The Red Dogs advanced to the next phase of the competition where they were eliminated by CDNA Sofia, Anghel making three appearances in the campaign.^[9][10] He played the entire match under 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 their 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, having a total of 92 matches with 16 goals in the competition, also totaling 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 for Petrolul Ploiești from 1988 to 1989 and Rapid București between 1989 until 1990.^[2][5][6][7]

International career

Anghel played four games for Romania, making his debut on 1 June 1957 under coach Gheorghe Popescu in a 1–1 friendly 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.^[3] His last appearance for the national team took 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]