Ion Roșu (born 20 September 1947) is a

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n former football striker.

Career

Ion Roșu was born on 20 September 1947 in the Andronache neighborhood of

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, starting to play football at Argeș Pitești in 1968 when on 13 October and he made his

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

in a 0–0 with Crișul Oradea. In the 1971–72 season he helped Argeș win the title, scoring four goals in the only 17 appearances given to him by coaches Titus Ozon and

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as he had to compete in the offence with players like Nicolae Dobrin, Radu Jercan or Constantin Radu. Afterwards he played four games in the

1972–73 European Cup The 1972–73 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the third consecutive time by Ajax in the final against Juventus at Red Star Stadium in Belgrade. The win by Ajax resulted in the fourth consecutive championship by a ...

, eliminating Aris Bonnevoie in the first round, then in the following one they won a home game with 2–1 against

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but lost the second leg with 3–1. He then played in both legs of the 6–2 loss on aggregate with Fenerbahçe from the first round of the

1973–74 UEFA Cup The 1973–74 UEFA Cup was the third season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at White Hart Lane, London, England, and at De Kuip, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was wo ...

in which he scored once. In 1974 he signed with Sportul Studențesc București, then he moved to Progresul București in 1976 where on 20 March 1977 he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 1–0 home win over FC Constanța, having a total of 159 matches with 33 goals scored in the competition.

Honours

Argeș Pitești *

: 1971–72

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roșu, Ion 1947 births Living people Romanian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Liga I players FC Argeș Pitești players FC Progresul București players FC Sportul Studențesc București players Footballers from Bucharest 20th-century Romanian sportsmen