Nicolae Oaidă (9 April 1933 – 18 January 2025) was a Romanian footballer and

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Club career

Oaidă was born in

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

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debut on 16 May 1954 playing for Dinamo Brașov in a 3–0 loss in front of 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, his first performance being the reaching of the 1957–58 Cupa României, being used all the minutes by coach Ioan Lupaș all the minutes in the 1–0 loss in front of Știința Timișoara. In the following season he scored a personal record of 14 goals. Under the guidance of coach Augustin Botescu, Oaidă opened the score in the 2–0 victory against Dinamo Obor București in the 1960 Cupa României final, which helped Progresul win the first trophy in the club's history. During his 12 seasons spent at the club, Progresul's best finish was a third place in the 1961–62 season but also suffered a relegation in the 1964–65 season but he stayed with the club, helping it promote back to the first league after one season. Oaidă's last Divizia A appearance took place on 15 June 1969, playing Progresul in a 1–0 loss with Farul Constanța, having a total of 236 matches played and 79 goals scored in the competition, also making two appearances for Progresul in the preliminary round of the

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as the team got eliminated by

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after a 2–1 aggregate loss.

International career

Oaidă played six games at international level for

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, making his debut on 14 September 1958 under coach Augustin Botescu in a 3–2 away loss in front of

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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.

Personal life and death

In 2008, he 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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. Oaidă died on 18 January 2025, at the age of 91.

Career statistics

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