Nicolae Oaidă (born 9 April 1933) is a Romanian former footballer and

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Career

Nicolae Oaidă was born in

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on 9 April 1933 and started playing football in 1946 at the youth center of Steagul Roșu Brașov, later in 1950 moving to Locomotiva Brașov. He made his

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debut on 16 May 1954 playing for Dinamo Brașov in a 3–0 loss against Locomotiva Timișoara. After one season at Dinamo Brașov, Oaidă went to play for two seasons at Dinamo Bacău, managing to help the team earn a promotion to the first league in his first season spent there. In 1957 he went to play for Progresul București, a team where he would spend the rest of his career, playing for 12 seasons, including one in the second division, earning a total of 226 league appearances and 77 goals scored. Oaidă opened the score in the 2–0 victory against

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in the

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, which helped Progresul win the first trophy in the club's history. He has a total of 236 matches played and 79 goals scored in

, also making two appearances for Progresul in the

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. In 2008 Oaidă received the title of honorary president of Progresul București, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, in recognition of his entire activity at the club from

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International career

Nicolae Oaidă played six games at international level for

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, making his debut on 14 September 1958 under coach

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in a 3–2 away loss against

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. He played in the two games against

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at the Euro 1960 qualifiers, in the first match he opened the score in a 3–0 home victory in

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on the 23 August Stadium. He also appeared once for Romania's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Olympics qualifiers.

International goals

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

Honours

Player

Dinamo Bacău *

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Progresul București *

: 1965–66 *

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: 1959–60, runner-up 1957–58

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