Alexandru Badea

Alexandru Badea
Badea in 1963
Personal information
Date of birth (1938-03-08)8 March 1938[1]
Place of birth Bilciurești, Romania[1]
Date of death 17 July 1986(1986-07-17) (aged 48)[1]
Place of death Ploiești, Romania[1]
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position Striker[1][2]
Youth career
1952–1954 Flacăra Moreni
1954–1957 GRT Moreni
1957–1958 Flacăra Moreni
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1959 Flacăra Moreni
1960–1968 Petrolul Ploiești 197 (52)
1968–1971 Farul Constanța 71 (9)
1971–1974 Gloria Buzău
Total 268 (61)
International career
1965–1966 Romania 4 (2)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexandru Badea (8 March 1938 – 17 July 1986) was a Romanian footballer who played as a striker.[1][3][4]

Club career

Badea was born on 8 March 1938 in Bilciurești, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1952 at Flacăra Moreni.[1][3][4] Two years later he went to neighboring club GRT where he spent three years.[1][3][4] Then he returned to Flacăra where in 1958 he started to play for the senior squad in Divizia B.[1][3][4]

In 1960 he joined Petrolul Ploiești and made his Divizia A debut under coach Ilie Oană on 6 March in a 1–0 home loss to Progresul București.[1][5] His first performance was winning the 1962–63 Cupa României, being used the entire match by coach Oană in the 6–1 win over Siderurgistul Galați in the final.[1][2][6] He then won the 1965–66 Divizia A championship, being used by coach Constantin Cernăianu in 23 matches in which he scored 11 goals.[1][2][7] Badea played two games for The Yellow Wolves in the first round of the 1966–67 European Cup against Liverpool which included a 3–1 victory, but they did not manage to qualify to the next round.[1][8][9]

In 1968, he joined Farul Constanța where on 27 June 1971 he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 4–1 away loss to Rapid București, having a total of 268 games with 61 goals in the competition, also totaling 17 matches with two goals in European competitions (including 13 appearances and two goals in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup).[1][2] Afterwards he went to Divizia C club Gloria Buzău where in his first season he scored 25 goals that helped the team gain promotion to Divizia B.[1][2] There, after he played two more seasons, Badea retired.[1][2]

International career

Badea played four matches for Romania, scoring two goals, making his debut under coach Ilie Oană on 21 November 1965 against Eusébio's Portugal in a 1966 World Cup qualification match, scoring his side's final goal in a 2–0 home victory.[10][11] His following three games were friendlies, the last one taking place on 7 December 1966 in a 2–1 away victory against Israel in which he scored once.[10][12]

International goals

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Badea goal.[10][11][12]
Goal Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 21 November 1965 23 August Stadium, București, Romania  Portugal 2–0 2–0 1966 World Cup qualifiers
2 7 December 1966 Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel  Israel 1–1 2–1 Friendly

Style of play

In the book Petrolul Ploiești, Istorie și Tradiție (Petrolul Ploiești, History and Tradition), writer Răzvan Frațilă described Badea's style of play as:"An artist of the green rectangle, who slipped with the skill of a fencer between the barricades of concrete defenses, dominated by force. A complete footballer, capable of acting all over the field".[3]

Death

Badea died on 17 July 1986 in Ploiești at age 48.[1][2][3]

Honours

Petrolul Ploiești

Gloria Buzău

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Alexandru Badea at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Alexandru Badea at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Așii Petrolului, Gazeta reconstituie portretele idolilor din trecut, din arhive și prin ochii cronicarilor acelor vremuri" [Aces of Petrolul, Gazeta reconstructs portraits of idols from the past, from archives and through the eyes of the chroniclers of those times] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d "Maratonistul" [The marathon runner] (in Romanian). Doarpetrolul.ro. 22 February 2008. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Petrolul Ploiești vs Progresul Bucuresti 0-1". Labtof. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  6. ^ "Romanian Cup – Season 1962–1963". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Petrolul 66, 53 de ani de la victoria cu Liverpool. Supraviețuitorii succesului, sărbătoriți la Ploiești" [Petrolul 66, 53 years since the victory with Liverpool. The survivors of success, celebrated in Ploiesti] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 13 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  9. ^ "55 de ani de la istorica victorie a Petrolului cu Liverpooli" [55 years since the historic victory of Petrolul with Liverpool] (in Romanian). Wesport.ro. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  10. ^ a b c "Alexandru Badea". European Football. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Romania - Portugal 2:0". European Football. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  12. ^ a b "Israel - Romania 1:2". European Football. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
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