Marin Andrei
Romanian footballer
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Marin Andrei (born 22 October 1940) is a Romanian former footballer.[1] He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[2]
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Andrei with Rapid București in 1963. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 22 October 1940 | ||
| Place of birth | Târgoviște, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1959–1962 | Metalul Târgoviște[a] | 23 | (0) |
| 1962–1968 | Rapid București | 73 | (0) |
| 1968–1969 | Steaua București | 8 | (0) |
| 1969 | Progresul București | 8 | (0) |
| 1970–1972 | Dinamo București | 22 | (0) |
| 1972–1973 | Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea | 13 | (0) |
| Total | 147 | (0) | |
| International career | |||
| 1964 | Romania Olympic | 3 | (0) |
| 1965 | Romania | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
Andrei was born on 22 October 1940 in Târgoviște, Romania.[1] He started his senior career in 1959, playing for Metalul Târgoviște in Divizia B.[1] After two seasons, they managed to gain promotion to Divizia A, a competition where Andrei made his debut under coach Valentin Stănescu on 20 August 1961 in a 3–1 victory against UTA Arad.[1][3] In 1962, he followed Stănescu to Rapid București.[4] Andrei was an important player in the first three seasons spent with The Railwaymen as the team managed to be runner-up in all of them, and also in the 1964–65 season he set a competition record for goalkeepers of 770 minutes without conceding a goal.[1][4][5][6] In the 1966–67 season he helped Rapid win its first title, but Stănescu used him in only three games, because Rică Răducanu was the team's first-choice goalkeeper.[1][4][5][7] Andrei was contacted by Peruvian champion Club Universitario de Deportes in 1967, which wanted a European goalkeeper, but was denied a transfer there by Romania's communist regime.[5] In 1968, Andrei went for one season at Steaua București where he made eight league appearances, having a hard competition with international goalkeepers Carol Haidu and Vasile Suciu, managing to win the Cupa României.[1][5][8] He joined Progresul București in the second league for half a year, after which he signed with Dinamo București, thus becoming the first player to play for Rapid, Steaua and Dinamo.[1][4][5] He won the 1970–71 Divizia A title with Dinamo in which coaches Nicolae Dumitru and Traian Ionescu used him in only four matches, as Mircea Constantinescu was the team's first-choice goalkeeper.[1][7] Andrei also made three appearances for the club in the 1971–72 European Cup, helping them get past Spartak Trnava in the first round, keeping a clean sheet in the first leg, but they got eliminated in the following round by Feyenoord.[1][9] He made his last Divizia A appearance on 5 December 1971 in Dinamo's 3–1 away loss to SC Bacău, totaling 126 matches in the competition.[1] Andrei ended his career after playing one season in the second league for Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea with whom he won the 1972–73 Cupa României.[1][8]
International career
Andrei played one game for Romania on 23 October 1965 under coach Ilie Oană in a 2–1 loss to Turkey in the 1966 World Cup qualifiers.[10] He also played for Romania's Olympic team, starting with a friendly that ended with a 2–1 victory against Yugoslavia.[8][5][11] Afterwards he was chosen by coach Silviu Ploeșteanu to be part of the 1964 Summer Olympics squad in Tokyo, appearing in a 1–0 victory against Iran and in a 4–2 win over Ghana, helping the team finish in fifth place.[8][5][12]
Honours
Notes
- The statistics for the 1959–60 and 1960–61 Divizia B seasons are unavailable.[1]