Alexandru Badea (8 March 1938 – 17 July 1986) was a Romanian

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who played as a striker.

Club career

Badea was born on 8 March 1938 in

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, and he began playing junior-level football in 1952 at

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. Two years later he went to neighboring club, GRT where he spent three years. Then he returned to Flacăra where in 1958 he started to play for the senior squad in

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. In 1960 he went to play for Petrolul Ploiești where he made his

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debut on 6 March in a 1–0 home loss to Progresul București. His first performance was winning the 1962–63 Cupa României, being used all the minutes by coach

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in the 6–1 win over

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in the

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. He then won the 1965–66 Divizia A championship, being used by coach Constantin Cernăianu in 23 matches in which he scored 11 goals. Badea played two games for '' The Yellow Wolves'' in the first round of the

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against

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which included a 3–1 victory, but they did not manage to qualify to the next round. In 1968, he went to play for Farul Constanța where on 27 June 1971 he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 4–1 away loss to

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, having a total of 268 games with 61 goals scored in the competition, also totaling 17 matches with two goals in European competitions (including 13 appearances and two goals scored in the

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). Afterwards he went to

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club, Gloria Buzău where in his first season he scored 25 goals that helped the team promote to Divizia B. There, after he played two more seasons, Badea retired.

International career

Badea played four matches at international level for

, scoring two goals, making his debut under coach

on 21 November 1965 against

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in a

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match, scoring Romania's final goal in a 2–0 home victory. His following three games were friendlies, the last one taking place on 7 December 1966 in a 2–1 away victory against

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in which he scored once.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Badea goal''.

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".

Death

Badea died on 17 July 1986 in

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at age 48.

Honours

Petrolul Ploiești *

: 1965–66 *

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: 1962–63 Gloria Buzău *

: 1971–72

References

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