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Dumitru Ivan
Personal information
Date of birth (1938-05-14)14 May 1938
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Date of death 17 June 2015(2015-06-17) (aged 77)
Place of death Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Left back
Youth career
1955–1957 Locomotiva București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1959–1960 Dinamo Obor București
1960–1967 Dinamo București 121 (1)
1967–1970 Argeș Pitești 42 (1)
1970–1975 TUS Wansee
Total 163 (2)
International career
1961–1964 Romania 12[a] (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dumitru Ivan (14 May 1938 – 17 June 2015) was a Romanian football left back.

Club career

Dumitru Ivan was born on 14 May 1938 in București and started to play football in 1955 at the junior squads of Locomotiva București.[2] in 1959 he started his senior career at Divizia B team, Dinamo Obor București, transferring after one season at Dinamo București, making his Divizia A debut on 19 June 1960 in a 3–1 away loss against Farul Constanța, spending a total 8 seasons at the club, winning four consecutive Divizia A titles from 1962 until 1965, in the first he played 26 matches, in the second he played 25 games and scored one goal, in the last two he made 19 appearances in each.[2][3][4][5] He also won the 1963–64 Cupa României with The Red Dogs and represented them in 10 European Cup matches, transferring in 1967 at Argeș Pitești where on 7 December 1969 he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 2–2 against Universitatea Craiova, a competition in which he gained a total of 163 appearances with two goals scored, also he played six games in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup for Argeș.[2][6] In 1970, Ivan went to play in West Germany at TUS Wansee for five seasons, after which he retired from his playing career.[2][3][6][7] Dumitru Ivan died in 17 June 2015 at age 77 in his home from București, after suffering from cirrhosis and diabetes.[2][3][4][5][7]

International career

Dumitru Ivan played 6 matches at international level for Romania, making his debut on 8 October 1961 under coach Gheorghe Popescu I in a friendly which ended with a 4–0 victory against Turkey.[1][8] His following game was a 3–1 victory against Spain at the 1964 European Nations' Cup qualifiers.[1] Ivan's following matches were friendlies, the last one being a 0–0 against Turkey played on 9 October 1963.[1] He also played for Romania's Olympic team, competing in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics where he played in a 1–1 against Iran from the group stage, the team finishing the competition on the 5th place.[9][10]

Honours

Dinamo București

Notes

  1. ^ Including 6 appearances for Romania's Olympic team[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Dumitru Ivan". European Football. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Dumitru Ivan at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  3. ^ a b c "Doliu în fotbalul românesc. Fostul dinamovist Dumitru Ivan a decedat la vârsta de 77 de ani" [Mourning in Romanian football. Former Dinamo player Dumitru Ivan died at the age of 77] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Dumitru Ivan, de patru ori campion cu Dinamo, condus pe ultimul drum! A plecat supărat!" [Dumitru Ivan, four-time champion with Dinamo, led on the last road! He left angry!] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 20 June 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Câinii roșii au îmbrăcat straie negre: a murit un mare fotbalist de la Dinamo" [The red dogs wore black clothes: a great football player from Dinamo died] (in Romanian). Realitatea.net. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  6. ^ a b c Dumitru Ivan at National-Football-Teams.com
  7. ^ a b "Veste tristă pentru microbiști. Fostul fotbalist dinamovist Dumitru Ivan a încetat din viață" [Sad news for football fans. Former Dinamo football player Dumitru Ivan passed away] (in Romanian). Romanialibera.ro. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Romania 4-0 Turkey". European Football. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  9. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dumitru Ivan Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Dumitru Ivan - Olympic Games 1964". WorldFootball. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
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