Vasile Anghel
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 Anghel (left) during a Dinamo training session in 1957 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 22 November 1937[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Buzău, Romania[1] | ||
| Date of death | 12 September 2014 (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) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1985 | Dinamo București | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Vasile Anghel (22 November 1937 – 12 September 2014) was a Romanian footballer who played as a forward.[5]
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 by playing for The Yellow Wolves on 9 June 1963 in a 2–0 away loss to Știința Timișoara, totaling 92 matches with 16 goals in the competition and five appearances in European competitions (four 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 to 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] In 1985, he was Dinamo's head coach for several rounds.[16] He also worked as a technical director for Petrolul Ploiești from 1988 to 1989 and Rapid București between 1989 and 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][17] 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]