Stere "Sterică" Adamache (17 August 1941 – 9 July 1978) was a Romanian football goalkeeper.

Club career

Stere Adamache, nicknamed "Baronul" (The Baron), was born on 17 August 1941 in

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. He started to play football at junior level as a field player in 1955 at Energia Galați, afterwards moving at Ancora Galați where he started to play as a goalkeeper, later at Știința Galați and started his senior career by playing two

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seasons at Dinamo Galați. He made his

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debut on 9 September 1962, playing for

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in a 0–0 against Știința Cluj, shortly afterwards the club dissolved and he had offers to play for

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and Steagul Roșu Brașov and after a talk with the latter's coach,

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, he chose Steagul on the considerations that he would have had more opportunities to play. He remained at Steagul over the course of 13 seasons, the highlights of this period being a fourth place in the

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season and 10 games played in European competitions, including a 4–2 against Espanyol Barcelona at the 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and a 3–2 victory on aggregate against

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at the

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, also at end of the 1967–68 Divizia A season, the club relegated to

, but Adamache stayed with the club, promoting back to the first division after one year. He played his last

match on 29 June 1975 in a 2–1 home victory against Dinamo București, a competition in which he has a total of 253 appearances and after one year of absence, he came out of retirement to play again for Steagul in the 1976–77 Divizia B, trying to help the team promote to

, but failing to do so. Adamache drowned and died at age 36 while swimming in the

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in July 1978.

International career

Stere Adamache played 7 games at international level for

, making his debut in a friendly, under coach

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, when he came as a substitute and replaced Rică Răducanu at half-time in a 2–0 loss against

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. His following two games were a 2–2 against

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and a 2–0 loss against the

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. Adamache was a member of Steagul Roșu Brașov's "Mexican trio", alongside Mihai Ivăncescu and Nicolae Pescaru who were part of Romania's 1970 Mexico World Cup squad, playing in all three games, including a 3–2 loss against

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in which he conceded two goals from

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and

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, being replaced in the 29th minute by Rică Răducanu. His last game for the national team was a 2–0 victory against

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at the 1974 World Cup qualifiers. Adamache was also part of

's squad at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Honours

Steagul Roșu Brașov *

: 1968–69

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Adamache, Stere 1941 births 1978 deaths Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Olympic footballers for Romania Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics 1970 FIFA World Cup players Liga I players Liga II players FC Brașov (1936) players Accidental deaths in Romania Deaths by drowning Footballers from Galați