Flavius Virgil Domide (born 7 May 1946) is a

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n former football striker.

Club career

Flavius Domide started playing football as a child on the streets of the Pânceava neighborhood of Arad where he was born and raised. He later went to play for the juniors of UTA Arad, a team where he would spend most of his senior career, having a total of 342 Divizia A appearances for the club in which he scored 75 goals, a competition in which he made his debut on 28 August 1966 in a 0–0 against Rapid București, also he appeared in 16 matches in which he scored 6 goals in European competitions. He was part of UTA's team that in the

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season eliminated

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who were European champions at that time. Domide also won two consecutive league titles with the team, at the first contributing with 8 goals scored in 30 appearances and in the second he played 29 games and scored 11 goals, also he helped the team reach the

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quarter-finals by scoring 5 goals in 8 matches. He spent the last year of his career playing for

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in the third division, helping them gain promotion to the

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. A book about Domide was written by Radu Romănescu and Ionel Costin, called ''Flavius Domide – copilul teribil al fotbalului arădean'' ''(The terrible child of Arad football)'', which was released with the occasion of his 70th birthday.

International career

Flavius Domide played 17 matches and scored 3 goals for

(19/3 including Romania's Olympic team games), making his debut on 6 November 1968 when coach Angelo Niculescu sent him on the field in the 77th minute in order to replace Nicolae Dobrin in a friendly which ended 0–0 against

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. His following game was at the successful 1970 World Cup qualifiers in a 2–0 victory against Switzerland in which he scored a goal, also he was selected by Angelo Niculescu to be part of

's squad at the

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where he didn't play. He played 5 matches at the 1972 Euro qualifiers, managing to reach the

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where

was defeated by

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, who advanced to the

. Domide's last game for the national team was a 1–1 against

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at the 1974 World Cup qualifiers. For representing his country at the 1970 World Cup, Domide was decorated by

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

International goals

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after the player's goal.''

Honours

UTA Arad * Divizia A: 1968–69, 1969–70 Vagonul Arad *

Divizia C The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. Its name was changed from Divizia C to Liga III before the start of the 2006–07 season. It was the first in this format (six series of 18 t ...

: 1979–80

Notes

References

External links

*
Romania National Team 1960–1969 – Details

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