Traian Ivănescu (5 May 1933 – 29 July 2019) was a Romanian
football
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player and
manager
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.
Career
Born in
Bucharest
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, Ivănescu played youth football with Militari București and Flamura Roşie București, before making his senior debut in 1951 with
Flacăra București. He later played for
CCA Steaua București,
Progresul București,
Siderurgistul Galați
Siderurgistul Galați was a football club based in Galaţi, Galați County, Romania. It was founded in 1955 and dissolved in 1967.
History
In 1955 Dinamo Galați is founded and in 1961 the club was renamed CSO Galați, and one year later rena ...
and
Jiul Petroşani Jiul may refer to these places in Romania:
* the River Jiu ( + )
** Jiul de Vest
** Jiul de Est
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, before retiring in 1966.
He was married to
Doina Ivănescu a former
volleyball
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player who represented her country at the
1964 Summer Olympics
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.
[
He also earned one cap for ]Romania
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in 1954.
Ivănescu later became a coach.[
He died on 29 July 2019, aged 86.
]
Honours
Player
;Steaua București
*Divizia A
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(5): 1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
, 1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
, 1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
, 1959–60, 1960–61
*Cupa României
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(3): 1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
, 1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
, 1961–62
;Siderurgistul Galați[
* Romanian Second Division (1): 1964–65
;Jiul Petroșani]
* Romanian Second Division (1): 1965–66
Manager
;Jiul Petroșani[
*]Cupa României
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(1): 1973–74
;Flacăra Moreni
* Romanian Second Division (1): 1985–86
References
External links
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1933 births
2019 deaths
Romanian men's footballers
Romania men's international footballers
Liga I players
Liga II players
FC Petrolul Ploiești players
FCSB players
FC Progresul București players
CSM Jiul Petroșani players
Romanian football managers
CSM Jiul Petroșani managers
FC Brașov (1936) managers
CS Minaur Baia Mare (football) managers
ASC Oțelul Galați managers
CSM Flacăra Moreni managers
CSM Deva managers
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Bucharest
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