Dumitru Ivan
Romanian footballer
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Dumitru Ivan (14 May 1938 – 17 June 2015) was a Romanian football left back.
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Ivan in 1963. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 14 May 1938 | ||
| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
| Date of death | 17 June 2015 (aged 77) | ||
| Place of death | Bucharest, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1955–1957 | Locomotiva București | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1959–1960 | Dinamo Obor București | ||
| 1960–1967 | Dinamo București | 121 | (1) |
| 1967–1970 | Argeș Pitești | 42 | (1) |
| 1970–1975 | TUS Wansee | ||
| Total | 163 | (2) | |
| International career | |||
| 1961–1964 | Romania | 12[a] | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
Ivan was born on 14 May 1938 in București, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1955 at Locomotiva București.[2]
In 1959 he started his senior career at Divizia B team Dinamo Obor București, transferring after one season to Dinamo București.[2] There, he made his Divizia A debut on 19 June 1960 under coach Traian Ionescu in a 3–1 away loss to Farul Constanța.[2][3] Ivan won four consecutive Divizia A titles from 1962 until 1965.[2][4][5][6][7] In the first one he worked with three coaches, Ionescu, Constantin Teașcă and Nicolae Dumitru, who gave him 26 appearances.[2][7] In the following two Dumitru and Ionescu used him in 25 matches in the first, scoring one goal in a 2–2 draw against rivals Steaua București, and in 19 games in the second.[2][7][8] He made 19 appearances in the last one under the guidance of Angelo Niculescu.[2][7] Ivan also won the 1963–64 Cupa României with The Red Dogs, coach Ionescu using him the entire match in the 5–3 victory over Steaua in the final.[9] He represented Dinamo in 10 European Cup matches.[2] He played in all four games of the 1963–64 European Cup campaign as they got past East Germany champion, Motor Jena, being eliminated in the next phase by Real Madrid.[2][10] In the 1965–66 edition, Ivan appeared in a historical 2–1 win over Inter Milan, who were the winners of the previous two seasons of the competition.[2][11]
In 1967, Ivan was transferred to Argeș Pitești where on 7 December 1969 he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 2–2 draw against Universitatea Craiova, totaling 163 appearances with two goals in the competition.[2][12] He also played six games in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup for Argeș.[2] In 1970, Ivan joined TUS Wansee in West Germany for five seasons, after which he retired from his playing career.[2][4][12][13]
International career
Ivan played six matches for Romania, making his debut on 8 October 1961 under coach Gheorghe Popescu in a 4–0 friendly victory against Turkey.[1][14] His next game was a 3–1 win over Spain in the 1964 European Nations' Cup qualifiers.[1] Ivan's following matches were friendlies, the last one being a 0–0 draw against Turkey played on 9 October 1963.[1] He also played for Romania's Olympic team, being chosen by coach Silviu Ploeșteanu to be part of the 1964 Summer Olympics squad in Tokyo where he played in a 1–1 draw against Iran in the group stage, the team finishing the competition in fifth place.[15][16]