Florea Voinea (born 21 April 1941) is a Romanian retired

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who played as a striker.

Club career

Florea Voinea was born on 21 April 1941 in Puchenii Moșneni,

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and started to play football at junior level at Rafinăria 1 Ploiești and Petrolul Ploiești. He started to play at senior level in

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, after two seasons he returned to Petrolul, where he made his

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debut on 20 August 1961 in a 6–2 away victory against

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in which he scored a goal. Steaua 1966

He went to play for Steaua București where he won the 1967–68 Divizia A, being the team's top-goalscorer with 13 goals scored in the 25 matches he was used by coach

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and he also won five

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, scoring in all the finals, in the last two scoring a double in each. After a period of two years spent in France at

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, Voinea came back in Romania, having a second spell at Steaua București, afterwards spending a season at

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and one at Politehnica Timișoara where he made his last Divizia A appearance on 25 May 1975 in a 2–2 against Steagul Roșu Brașov, retiring after playing one season in Divizia B at

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. Florea Voinea played 251 Divizia A matches in which he scored 117 goals, appeared in a total of 16 matches in which he scored 2 goals in European competitions, scored 13 goals in all competitions for Steaua București in the

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against

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, being the club's all-time top-goalscorer of the derby and scored a total of 40 goals in Cupa României.

Transfer at Nîmes Olympique

During Romania's communist era, transfers of Romanian footballers outside the country were rarely allowed, but in June 1970 dictator

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went on a visit in

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where he was invited by president

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. Pampidou took him to see

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, a town where the communists were constantly winning the elections, there Ceaușescu talked to the mayor who complained about the poor results of the local football team,

so Ceaușescu told him that he was going to send two Romanian footballers to the club. Some French officials were sent to see the

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which was won with 2–1 by Steaua București against

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, both of Steaua București's goals being scored by Voinea, and they selected Voinea from Steaua and

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from Dinamo to come and play for Nîmes Olympique, where in the 1971–72 season they helped the club finish second in the championship.

International career

Voinea played one friendly game at international level for

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, appearing on 29 October 1967 under coach

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in a 0–0 against

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. He also played for Romania's Olympic team in a 2–1 victory against

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at the 1964 Summer Olympics qualifiers.

Honours

Steaua București *

: 1967–68 *

: 1961–62, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1968–69, 1969–70 Nîmes *

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runner-up: 1971–72 *

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: 1972 Romania *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Voinea, Florea 1941 births Living people Footballers from Prahova County Men's association football forwards Romanian men's footballers Olympic footballers for Romania Romania men's international footballers FC Petrolul Ploiești players FC Prahova Ploiești players FCSB players CSM Reșița players Nîmes Olympique players FC Politehnica Timișoara players Romanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Romanian expatriate sportspeople in France Liga I players Liga II players Ligue 1 players 20th-century Romanian sportsmen