Ion Atodiresei (born 14 May 1952) is a

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n former football

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Club career

Ion Atodiresei was born on 14 May 1952 in

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, starting to play football at local club, Teba, moving in 1966 at neighboring club,

UTA Arad Asociația Fotbal Club UTA Arad (), commonly known as UTA Arad or simply UTA (''Uzina Textilă Arad''; ), is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Arad, Arad County that competes in the Liga I. The team was founded in 1945 ...

. He made his

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debut under coach

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on 4 May 1969 in a 2–1 away loss in front of Politehnica Iași, making one more appearance until the end of the

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as the club won the title. In the following season, Dumitrescu used him in three games as UTA won another championship. In 1970 he went to play for one season at

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club,

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. Afterwards he signed with

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where he would spend the rest of his career, helping the club earn promotion to the first league from his first season. In the 1974–75 season, Atodiresei scored a personal record of seven goals. On 15 June 1978 he made his last Divizia A appearance in Reșița's 4–0 away loss in front of Steaua București, having a total of 179 matches with 19 goals scored in the competition.

International career

From 1973 until 1975, Ion Atodiresei made 11 appearances for Romania's under-23 side. In 1976 he played one match for Romania's national team, being used by coach

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in a 1–1 friendly against

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Honours

UTA Arad *

: 1968–69, 1969–70 FCM Reșița *

: 1971–72

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Ion Atodiresei
at Labtof.ro {{DEFAULTSORT:Atodiresei, Ion 1952 births Living people Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Liga I players Liga II players FC UTA Arad players Vagonul Arad players CSM Reșița players Footballers from Arad, Romania 20th-century Romanian sportsmen