Florea Văetuș (born 23 November 1956) is a

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n former footballer who played as a striker.

Club career

Florea Văetuș was born on 23 November 1956 in

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and started playing junior level football at local clubs Constructorul and Corvinul. He started to play football at senior level in 1975 at

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club Victoria Călan, after one year moving to play for

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. He was supposed to make his

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debut playing for Corvinul Hunedoara in a match against Sportul Studențesc București which was postponed because of the

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, so on 20 March, coach Ladislau Vlad gave him his debut in a 2–2 against

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. He spent five seasons at Corvinul, staying with the club when it relegated to

, helping it promote back to the first division after one year under coach

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and in the middle of the 1981–82 season he was transferred to

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. In his first season spent at Dinamo, the club won The Double under coach

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, Văetuș playing 13 matches and scoring five goals in the league, also being used all the minutes in the 3–2 victory over

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from the Cupa României final. In the following season, he was coached by

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, winning another title, scoring seven goals in 31 matches, also appearing in five games from the

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season as the club got past

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and

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in the first rounds, being eliminated by

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after a 6–2 aggregate loss. In the summer of 1983 Văetuș and teammates

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and other two players were transferred from Dinamo to Corvinul in exchange for

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and

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. He played five seasons for Corvinul in his second spell, making his last Divizia A appearance on 22 June 1988 in a 2–1 loss against

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, having a total of 308 games with 71 goals scored in the competition. After he ended his playing career in 1991 at Divizia B team,

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, Văetuș worked as a

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at teams from the lower leagues of Romania.

International career

Florea Văetuș played under coach

seven matches for Romania's national team, scoring one goal in his debut, at a 3–1 victory against

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at the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers, without being part of the squad that went at the final tournament. His following games were friendlies, his last appearance taking place on 11 April 1984 in a 0–0 with

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, when he came as a substitute in order to replace Nicolae Ungureanu in the 79th minute of the game.

International goals

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

Honours

Corvinul Hunedoara *

: 1979–80 Dinamo București *

: 1981–82, 1982–83 *

Cupa României The Cupa României () is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. It is the Romania ...

: 1981–82

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaetus, Florea 1956 births Living people Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Liga I players Liga II players CSM Deva players FC Corvinul Hunedoara players FC Dinamo București players Romanian football managers FC Corvinul Hunedoara managers Footballers from Hunedoara 20th-century Romanian sportsmen