Aurel "Aurică" Beldeanu (born 5 March 1951), is a

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n former professional

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who played as a

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. Born in Dobroești,

Ilfov County Ilfov () is the county that surrounds Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It used to be largely rural, but, after the fall of Communism, many of the county's villages and communes developed into high-income commuter towns, which act like suburbs ...

Beldeanu started his football career at Progresul București and played almost 100 matches for the team from the park with platans. Then he moved to

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and played another 101 matches for the team from Valea Domanului. In 1976 Aurel Beldeanu signed with Universitatea Craiova, being part of the Craiova's second golden team, named as ''Craiova Maxima''. He played 195 matches for ''Știința'' and entering in the hall of fame of this club. In the end of his career Beldeanu played for Constructorul Craiova and Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea. His nickname is ''Vulpea'' (The Fox), nickname received from

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, due to his extraordinary intuition during the game. ''Beldeanu didn't have the impact of Balaci, Ștefănescu's performances or Crișan's speed, but Aurică Beldeanu was unanimously recognized as the most intelligent in the game, the most intuitive footballer of Craiova's great team.''

International career

Aurel Beldeanu played in 18 matches for

and scored 4 goals.

Honours

* Progresul București :*

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: 1969–70 * Universitatea Craiova :*

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: 1979–80, 1980–81 :*

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, 1978,

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* * 1951 births Living people People from Ilfov County Romanian footballers Association football midfielders Olympic footballers of Romania Romania international footballers Liga I players Liga II players FC Progresul București players CSM Reșița players CS Universitatea Craiova players Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea players {{Romania-footy-midfielder-stub