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Andrei Bărbulescu

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Andrei Bărbulescu
Personal information
Date of birth (1909-10-16)16 October 1909
Place of birth Slatina, Romania
Date of death 30 July 1987(1987-07-30) (aged 77)
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1924–1927 Venus București
1927–1930 Juventus București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1930–1932 Juventus București 25 (9)
1932–1940 Venus București 117 (8)
1940–1941 Sportul Studențesc București 20 (0)
1941–1945 Venus București[a] 0 (0)
Total 162 (17)
International career
1935–1938 Romania 3 (0)

*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 March 2024

Ice hockey career
Position Right wing
Played for Tenis Club Roman București
Telefon Club București
HC Bragadiru București
Venus București
Petrolul București
Știința Cluj
National team  Romania
Playing career 1932–1952

Andrei Bărbulescu (16 October 1909 – 30 July 1987) was a Romanian football midfielder who played for Romania at the 1938 World Cup.[1][2][4] He also played ice hockey, representing the national team at the 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships.[5]

Football career

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Club career

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Andrei Bărbulescu was born on 16 October 1909 in Slatina, Romania and he started playing football at the junior squads of Venus București in 1924.[2] In 1927, he went to play for Juventus București where he made his debut in senior football on 6 April 1930, coach György Hlavay using him all the minutes in a 2–2 with Maccabi București from the regional championship.[6][7] The team won the regional championship and qualified for the national championship, Bărbulescu playing in the 4–2 win over Mihai Viteazul Chișinău from the semi-finals but Hlavay did not use him in the 3–0 victory with Gloria Arad from the final, as the club won the first national title in its history with Bărbulescu making a total of three appearances in the regional and national championships together.[8][9] In the following regional championship, he scored his first official goal on 23 October 1930 in a 5–2 victory with Sportul Studențesc București, finding the net eight times until the end of the season, including scoring two braces in two victories against Turda București and again Sportul Studențesc.[10] After one more season in which he made 12 regional league appearances and scored a goal in a 3–3 with CFR București, Bărbulescu went back to play for Venus București, making his debut on 25 September 1932 in a Divizia A 2–0 home win over RGMT Timișoara.[2][11] In the following season, Bărbulescu was used in 13 league games by coach Karoly Weszter, as the club won the title.[2][8][12] He won another title in the 1936–37, this time under the guidance of coach Ferenc Plattkó who gave him 21 appearances in which he scored two goals.[2][8][12] Between 1938 and 1940 he helped the club win two consecutive league titles, both with coach Béla Jánosy, Bărbulescu contributing with 15 appearances with one goal scored in the first one and four matches with three goals in the second.[2][8][12] In 1940 he went to play for Sportul Studențesc București where he played his Divizia A match on 18 May 1941 in a 2–1 home victory over Gloria CFR Galați, afterwards returning to play Venus, ending his career after a few years.[2]

International career

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Andrei Bărbulescu played three games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 25 August 1935 under coach Constantin Rădulescu in a friendly which ended with a 4–2 away loss in front of Germany.[13][14] He was selected by coaches Săvulescu and Rădulescu to be part of the squad that participated at the 1938 World Cup.[13][15] He did not appear in the first game against Cuba, which ended 3–3 but Bărbulescu played in the replay which ended with a surprisingly 2–1 loss.[13][15][16][17]

Ice hockey career

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Club career

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Andrei Bărbulescu started playing ice hockey in 1932 at Tenis Club Roman București, playing as a right winger, alongside Constantin Cantacuzino, winning the Romanian Hockey League from his first season.[5][18][19] Afterwards he went for one season at Telefon Club București, then moving to HC Bragadiru București where he reunited with Cantacuzino, also playing alongside Robert Sadowski, winning another Romanian Hockey League title.[5][20][21] In 1938, Bărbulescu went to play for Venus București, spending seven years with them, winning a title in 1944.[5][22] After a spell at Petrolul București, Andrei Bărbulescu ended his career in 1952 at Știința Cluj.[5]

International career

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Bărbulescu represented Romania's national team at the 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships where he made one appearance, as the team finished on the 7th place.[5][23]

Death

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Bărbulescu died on 30 July 1987 at age 77.[1][2]

Honours

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Footballer

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Juventus București

Venus București

Ice hockey player

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Tenis Club Roman București

HC Bragadiru București

Venus București

Notes

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  1. ^ The Divizia A 1940–41 was the last season before World War II and the Divizia A 1946–47 was the first one after, so the appearances and goals scored during this period for Venus București are not official with the exception of the 1945–46 regional championship.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Andrei Bărbulescu at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Andrei Bărbulescu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  3. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XXIV – "Ultimul șut aduce promovarea"" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XXIV - "The Last Shot Gets the Promotion"] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  4. ^ "1938 FIFA World Cup France, Romania squad". Fifa.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Andrei Bărbulescu profile". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  6. ^ "File de poveste – Episodul VIII – "JUVENTUS – CAMPIOANA ROMÂNIEI" partea I" [Story files - Episode VIII - "JUVENTUS - CHAMPION OF ROMANIA" part I] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  7. ^ "File de poveste – Episodul IX – "JUVENTUS – CAMPIOANA ROMÂNIEI" partea II" [Story files – Episode IX – "JUVENTUS – CHAMPION OF ROMANIA" part II] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  8. ^ a b c d e f "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  9. ^ "File de poveste – Episodul X – "JUVENTUS – CAMPIOANA ROMÂNIEI" partea III" [Story files – Episode X – "JUVENTUS – CHAMPION OF ROMANIA" part III] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 22 March 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  10. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XI – TITLUL DISTRICTUAL DECIS ŞI DE O CONTESTAŢIE" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XI - THE DISTRICT TITLE DECIDED AND BY A CONTEST] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  11. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XII – "Promovare pierduta in retur"" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XII - "Promotion lost in return"] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 5 April 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  12. ^ a b c "FOTBAL. Noua CAMPIOANA a ROMANIEI. Ce mai vuiet, ce mai larma..." [FOOTBALL. The new CHAMPION of ROMANIA. What a noise, what a noise ...] (in Romanian). Vechi.timisoaraexpress.ro. 14 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  13. ^ a b c "Andrei Bărbulescu". European Football. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  14. ^ "Germany 4-2 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  15. ^ a b "România – Cuba: povestea eliminării ruşinoase de la Cupa Mondială a primei generații de excepţie din istoria "tricolorilor"" [Romania – Cuba: the story of the shameful elimination from the World Cup of the first exceptional generation in the history of the "tricolors"] (in Romanian). Theplaymaker.ro. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  16. ^ "Cuba 3-3 România, 5 iunie 1938 (Campionatul Mondial din Franța '38)" [Cuba 3-3 Romania, June 5, 1938 (World Cup in France '38)] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  17. ^ "Campionatul Mondial din Franța '38: Cuba 2-1 România, 9 iunie 1938" [World Championship in France '38: Cuba 2-1 Romania, June 9, 1938] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  18. ^ a b "TC Roman București profile". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  19. ^ "1932-1933 TC Roman București season". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  20. ^ a b "HC Bragadiru București profile". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  21. ^ "1935-1936 HC Bragadiru București season". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  22. ^ a b "Venus București profile". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  23. ^ "Championnats du monde 1947" [World Championship 1947] (in French). Passionhockey.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
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