Augustin Deleanu

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Augustin Deleanu
File:Augustin Deleanu 1973.jpg
Deleanu with Dinamo in 1973
Personal information
Full name Augustin Pax Deleanu
Date of birth (1944-08-23)23 August 1944
Place of birth Măgurele, Romania
Date of death 27 March 2014(2014-03-27) (aged 69)
Place of death Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position Left back
Youth career
1960–1963 Steaua București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1963–1969 Politehnica Iași 134 (11)
1969–1976 Dinamo București 178 (7)
1976–1977 Jiul Petroșani 31 (0)
Total 343 (18)
International career
1966–1973 Romania 25 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Augustin Pax "Coco" Deleanu (23 August 1944 – 27 March 2014) was a Romanian footballer, who played as a left back.

Club career

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Deleanu (back row, third from the left) with Poli Iași in 1965

Deleanu, nicknamed "Coco", was born on 23 August 1944 in Măgurele, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1960 at Steaua București.[1][2][3] Three years later he joined Politehnica Iași where on 24 November 1963 he made his Divizia A debut under coach Constantin Teașcă in a 1–0 victory against Petrolul Ploiești.[1][2][3][4] He spent six seasons at Politehnica, a period in which the club was relegated to Divizia B, but he stayed with the team, helping it gain promotion back to the first league after one season.[1][2][3]

In 1968, he joined Dinamo București where his first performances were reaching two Cupa României finals in 1970 and 1971, playing all the minutes in both which were lost to rivals Steaua București.[1][2][3][5][6] He won three league titles with The Red Dogs in 1971, 1973 and 1975.[1][2][3][7] In the first he contributed with three goals scored in the 27 matches he was used by coaches Nicolae Dumitru and Traian Ionescu.[1][2][3][7] For the second title he played 23 games under the guidance of Ion Nunweiller and in the third he made 33 appearances while working once again with Dumitru.[1][2][3][7] He spent seven seasons at Dinamo in which he also appeared in 16 matches in European competitions (including four in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup).[1][2][3]

In 1976, Deleanu went to play for Jiul Petroșani where he made his last Divizia A appearance on 30 June 1977 in a 2–0 loss to Universitatea Craiova, totaling 325 matches played with 18 goals in the competition.[1][2][3]

International career

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Deleanu with Romania

Deleanu played 25 games without scoring for Romania, making his debut on 26 November 1966 under coach Ilie Oană in a 3–1 loss to Italy in the 1968 Euro qualifiers.[8][9] His second appearance for the national team also occurred there in a 5–1 victory against Cyprus.[8] He played four games in the successful 1970 World Cup qualifiers.[2][3][8][10] Deleanu was selected by coach Angelo Niculescu to be part of the squad that went to the final tournament, but he did not play a single match there.[2][3][8][10] He played five matches in the 1972 Euro qualifiers, managing to reach the quarter-finals where Romania was defeated by Hungary, who advanced to the final tournament.[8] Deleanu played five matches during the 1974 World Cup qualifiers, including his last appearance for The Tricolours that took place on 14 October 1973 in Romania's biggest ever victory, a 9–0 against Finland.[8][11]

For representing his country at the 1970 World Cup, Deleanu was decorated by President of Romania Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.[12][13]

After retirement

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After he ended his playing career, Deleanu became a referee, officiating matches in Romania's top-league Divizia A.[2][3][14] He also had different administration positions at Dinamo București, between 1990 and 1994 being the club's vice-president.[2][3]

Death

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Deleanu died on 27 March 2014, at the age of 69 at Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest.[2][3]

Honours

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Politehnica Iași

Dinamo București

References

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