Florea Văetuș (born 23 November 1956) is a

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n former footballer who played as a striker.

Club career

Florea Văetuș was born on 23 November 1956 in

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and started playing football at junior level at local clubs Constructorul and Corvinul. He started to play football at senior level in 1975 at

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club Victoria Călan, after one year moving to play for Mureșul Deva. He was suppose to make his Divizia A debut playing for

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in a match against Sportul Studențesc București which was postponed because of the 1977 Vrancea earthquake, so on 20 March, coach Ladislau Vlad gave him his debut in a 2–2 against

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. He spent five seasons at Corvinul, staying with the club when it relegated to

, helping it promote back to the first division after one year under coach

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and in the middle of the 1981–82 season he was transferred to

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. In his first season spent at Dinamo, the club won The Double under coach

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, Văetuș playing 13 matches and scoring 5 goals. In the following season, he was coached by Nicolae Dumitru, winning another title, scoring 7 goals in 31 Divizia A matches, also appearing in 5 matches in the

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. In the summer of 1983 Văetuș and teammates Nicușor Vlad, Teofil Stredie and other two players were transferred from Dinamo to Corvinul in exchange for

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and Ioan Andone. He played five seasons for Corvinul in his second spell, making his last Divizia A appearance on 22 June 1988 in a 2–1 loss against Rapid București, having a total of 308 games with 71 goals scored in the competition. After he ended his playing career in 1991 at

team, Metalurgistul Cugir, Văetuș worked as a

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at teams from the lower leagues of Romania.

International career

Florea Văetuș played under coach

seven matches for Romania's national team, scoring one goal in his debut, at a 3–1 victory against

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at the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers, without being part of the squad that went at the final tournament. His following games were friendlies, his last appearance taking place on 11 April 1984 in a 0–0 against

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, when he came as a substitute in order to replace Nicolae Ungureanu in the 79th minute of the game.

International goals

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

Honours

Corvinul Hunedoara *

: 1979–80 Dinamo București * Divizia A: 1981–82, 1982–83 * Cupa României: 1981–82

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaetus, Florea 1956 births Living people Romanian footballers Romania international footballers Association football forwards Liga I players Liga II players CSM Deva players CS Corvinul Hunedoara players FC Dinamo București players Romanian football managers CS Corvinul Hunedoara managers Sportspeople from Hunedoara