Ioan Andone (; born 15 March 1960) is a

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n football

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and former player.

Club career

Ioan Andone, nicknamed "Fălcosul" was born on 15 March 1960 in Șpălnaca and when he was 14 years old he played basketball and football simultaneously, Carol Gal being his first football coach at Școala Sportivă Hunedoara, after which at 16 he decided to concentrate exclusively on his football career when he went at

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's youth center where he was coached by Dumitru Pătrașcu. On 7 March 1979, Andone made his Divizia A debut for Corvinul when coach

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sent him on the field in order to replace Radu Nunweiller in the last 20 minutes of a 2–0 away loss against Sportul Studențesc București. At the end of his first season spent at Corvinul, the club relegated to

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, but Andone stayed with the club, promoting back to the first division after one year, helping the club finish 3rd in the 1981–82 Divizia A, also appearing in four games in which he scored two goals in the

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. In the summer of 1983 Andone and teammate

Mircea Rednic Mircea Rednic (born 9 April 1962) is a Romanian football coach and former player who played as a defender. Club career Mircea Rednic, nicknamed "Puriul" was born on 9 April 1962 in Hunedoara and until he was 14 years old he played table tenn ...

were transferred from Corvinul to

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in exchange for five players which included Nicușor Vlad, Teofil Stredie and

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. Andone spent a total of 7 seasons with '' The Red Dogs'', winning the title in his first season with 3 goals scored in 27 appearances and in his last season with 20 appearances and two goals scored. During the same period, Andone also won three Cupa României and played 25 games in which he scored one goal in European competitions, appearing in 6 games in the

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season when the team reached the semi-finals and in 8 games in the 1989–90 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup campaign when the team also reached the semi-finals with his former Corvinul coach,

. Andone was in the center of a big scandal in the

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against Steaua from March 1989 which was lost with 2–1 after

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opened the score, Andone equalized for Dinamo and

Gabi Balint Gavril Pele "Gabi" Balint (born 3 January 1963) is a Romanian football manager and former player, who was part of the hugely successful Steaua team of the 1980s. Club career Born in Sângeorz-Băi, Bistrița, Balint made his Divizia A debut wit ...

scored the winning goal for Steaua in the last minute of the game, also referee

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eliminated

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and Claudiu Vaișcovici from Dinamo. Feeling that they were disadvantaged by the referee, right after the game Andone and Rednic showed some obscene gestures in front of the official tribune where

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, the son of dictator

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and unofficial president of Steaua was staying. Initially, the Romanian Football Federation suspended Andone for one year, but after his friend from Steaua,

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talked to

and convinced him to forgive Andone, his suspension was reduced to three months, Rednic also got away with it after a friend of his from Steaua,

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talked to Valentin Ceaușescu. After the 1989 Romanian Revolution, he was bought by Spanish side

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and played 34 matches in which he scored scored 3 goals in the

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season. Andone then went on to play for the last two seasons of his career in the

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under head coach

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in the

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, where he was also teammate with

, appearing in 39 league games in which he scored 4 goals. Andone gained throughout his career a total of 255 Divizia A appearances with 35 goals scored and a total of 29 matches with 3 goals scored in European competitions.

International career

Ioan Andone played 55 matches and scored two goals at international level for

, making his debut on 11 November 1981 when coach

sent him on the field in the 82nd minute in order to replace Aurel Țicleanu in a 0–0 against Switzerland at the 1982 World Cup qualifiers. He made five appearances in which he scored one goal in a 2–0 victory against Sweden at the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers, being used by coach

in 2–1 loss against

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at the

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did not pass the group stage. He played one game at the 1986 World Cup qualifiers, one at the Euro 1988 qualifiers and four at the successful 1990 World Cup qualifiers, being used by coach

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in all the minutes of the four matches from the

, as

got eliminated by

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in the eight-finals. Ioan Andone's last game for the national team took place on 17 October 1990 in a 3–0 loss against

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at the Euro 1992 qualifiers. Andone was also part of Romania's U20 squad at the 1981 World Youth Championship from Australia, appearing in 5 games, helping the team finish the tournament in the 3rd position, winning the bronze medal. For representing his country at the

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, Andone was decorated by

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on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.

International stats

International goals

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

Managerial career

Ioan Andone started his coaching career in 1993 at Sportul Studențesc, a team he would coach on other three occasions. He coached

Universitatea Cluj Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj (), commonly known as Universitatea Cluj or simply as U Cluj, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I, the first ...

, Petrolul Ploiești, Farul Constanța, FC Brașov and Bihor Oradea before arriving in March 2003 at

, a team with whom he won the first trophies of his coaching career consisting of a Divizia A title, three Cupa României and one Supercupa României, he would go on to have two more spells at Dinamo but without winning any trophies. At Dinamo he also made his first European performance by eliminating Everton with 5–2 on aggregate and reaching the group stage of the

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. After he left Dinamo, Andone took over Cypriot club Omonia Nicosia in January 2006 and stayed there until January 2007, finishing on the second place in the

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. Andone coached

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in the 2007–08 season, helping the team win the title and the cup, these being the first trophies the club won in its history, however he was dismissed in the beginning of the following season for poor results. He went to coach abroad, having spells in the Arab world at Al-Ettifaq and Al-Ahli, before returning to Europe at Bulgarian club

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where he worked with Romanian players

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and

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. On 1 April 2010,

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's officials appointed the former CSKA Sofia manager to lead the team until the end of the 2009–10 season. On 9 April 2012 he returned for a second spell at

, replacing

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before the 26th round of the 2011–12 season, managing to win the title at the end of it and in the following season CFR eliminated

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and

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in the 2012–13 Champions League campaign, thus reaching the group stage of the competition where after making 4 points in three games, Andone was dismissed. From 2013 until 2015, Andone coached abroad having two spells in

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, the first with

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in 2013 when he finished the championship on the second place, the second with

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in 2015 when he finished the championship on the third place, also in between these two periods he had a second unsuccessful spell at Al-Ettifaq with whom he relegated from the

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and a spell in Cyprus at Apollon Limassol where he was dismissed while still being on the first place of the

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. From June 2018 until July 2021, Andone worked at

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, first as general manager and from July 2020 as president. Ioan Andone has a total of 456 matches as a manager in the Romanian top-division,

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consisting of 207 victories, 80 draws and 169 losses.

Honours

Player

Corvinul Hunedoara *

: 1979–80 Dinamo București * Divizia A: 1983–84, 1989–90 * Cupa României: 1983–84, 1985–86, 1989–90

Manager

Dinamo București * Divizia A: 2003–04 * Cupa României: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05 * Supercupa României: 2005 CFR Cluj *

: 2007–08, 2011–12 * Cupa României: 2007–08

References

External links

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