Bazil Marian (7 November 1922 – 19 January 2008) was a

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n professional

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and coach.

Club career

Bazil Marian nicknamed "Bombardierul" (The Bomber) because of his powerful shots was born on 7 November 1922 in Uioara de Sus, Romania and started playing junior level football at age 11 at local club Solvay. He made his Divizia A debut playing for Victoria Cluj on 24 September 1947 in a 2–1 home victory against

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. Victoria relegated by the end of the season, but he stayed in Divizia A, playing one season for Mica Brad before moving at Carmen București. At Carmen in December 1946 in a game against Ciocanul București at the score of 4–0 he ran alone towards the opposite goal, dribbled the goalkeeper, after which he sat down with his bottom on the ball and his hand over his eyes, as if looking for his opponents, before pushing the ball into the net. At the end of the season, following another victory against Ciocanul with 6–0 in which he scored two goals, the Carmen team was dissolved by the

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that just took over the country, so he and teammate

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wanted to flee to

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, going on a ship from the

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but were caught by the authorities who told them that they can choose from either going to jail or play for a working-class team such as Locomotiva București and both of them chose the latter. At Locomotiva he managed to score 32 goals in 24 appearances but did not win the top-goalscorer of the league as ITA Arad's

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scored a record of 49 goals. In 1950 in a game against CFR Timișoara, ''The Bomber'' scored a goal with a powerful shot from 18 meters that broke the net and after the game the opponents goalkeeper,

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said:"I am the happiest that Marian's bomb was a goal. Otherwise, if his kick would have hit me in full, I would have gone straight to the hospital". At the end of the

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season, Locomotiva relegated to

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but Marian stayed with the club, helping it promote back to the first league after one season, also in a match played in a cold weather against Metalul București he scored a goal which was cancelled by the referee so he ran to the fence from the stands, where boiled

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was sold and drank a cup, afterwards coming back to the pitch, scoring another goal which the referee cancelled again so he went to drink another cup of țuică, then he went and shook the referee's hand and asked to be replaced, leaving the pitch saying that if he scores another goal and it gets cancelled, he'll have to drink another cup and he will get drunk. He retired to start his coaching career after playing for Locomotiva on 14 November 1954 in a Divizia A match which ended with a 3–2 loss against Progresul Oradea, however six years later at age 39 he came out of retirement after he promoted

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to the first league because the squad wasn't too strong, playing 14 games in which he scored two goals.

International career

Bazil Marian played 18 games and scored two goals at international level for

, making his debut on 1 June 1941 under coach Virgil Economu in a friendly which ended with a 4–1 loss. He scored his first goal for the national team in a 2–2 friendly against

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, afterwards making two appearances at the

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, played four games in which he scored a goal in a 3–2 away victory against

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at the

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and made two appearances at the

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. Marian's last appearance for the national team took place on 8 May 1949 in a home friendly which ended with a 2–1 victory against

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International goals

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Marian goal''.

Managerial career

Bazil Marian started coaching in 1954 at juniors and as a assistant for six years at

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. He started to work as head coach in the 1960–61 Divizia B season at

, helping it earn promotion to Divizia A, however the team relegated after one season. He went on to coach Viitorul București, shortly afterwards moving at Romania's under 21 national team and in 1967 he was coach at Romania's senior national team for one friendly game which ended 1–1 against

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, that took place in Montevideo on

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. Marian won his first trophy as a coach in 1968 when he guided

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to win the 1967–68 Cupa României after a 3–1 victory in the

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against

which was coached by his former Carmen București teammate,

. Marian went to have some short spells at Farul Constanța and Argeș Pitești before going at

where he won the 1971–72 Cupa României after a 2–0 victory in the

against

. At Rapid he also had his first European performances, helping the team reach the eight-finals in the

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campaign after eliminating for the first time in the history of Romanian football a Italian team,

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, afterwards eliminating Legia Warsaw, being eliminated by the team who would eventually win the competition,

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, also taking part in the

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campaign when the team reached the quarter-finals, eliminating

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and

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. In 1973 he went to coach abroad in

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and

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, afterwards returning for one season at

and from 1979 until his retirement at age 67 in 1989 he coached Romania's under 21 national team. Bazil Marian died on 19 January 2008 in

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at age 85 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease in the last years of his life, being buried in the town's Andronache cemetery.

Honours

Player

Locomotiva București *

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Manager

Jiul Petroșani *

: 1960–61 Dinamo București * Cupa României: 1967–68 Rapid București * Cupa României: 1971–72

Notes

References

External links

* *
Bazil Marian player profile
at Labtof.ro
Bazil Marian manager profile
at Labtof.ro {{DEFAULTSORT:Marian, Bazil 1922 births 2008 deaths People from Ocna Mureș Romanian footballers Romania international footballers Association football midfielders Association football forwards Liga I players Liga II players FC Rapid București players FC Carmen București players Victoria Cluj players Romanian football managers FC Rapid București managers CSM Jiul Petroșani managers FC Dinamo București managers FCV Farul Constanța managers FC Argeș Pitești managers JS Kabylie managers Romania national football team managers Romanian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Algeria Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Algeria WA Boufarik managers