Marin Andrei (born 22 October 1940) is a Romanian former

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. He competed in the men's tournament at the

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Club career

Andrei was born on 22 October 1940 in

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, Romania. He started his senior career in 1959, playing for Metalul Târgoviște in

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. After two seasons, they managed to promote to

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

, a competition where Andrei made his debut on 20 August 1961 in a 3–1 victory against

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. In 1962, he went to play under the guidance of coach

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. Andrei was an important player in the first three seasons spent with '' The Railwaymen'' as the team managed to be runner-up in all of them, and also in the

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season he set a competition record for goalkeepers of 770 minutes without conceding a goal. In the 1966–67 season he helped Rapid win the first title in its history, but Stănescu used him in only three games, because Rică Răducanu was the team's first-choice goalkeeper. In 1968, Andrei went for one season at Steaua București where he made eight league appearances, having a hard competition with international goalkeepers

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and

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, managing to win the

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. He went to play for Progresul București in the second league for half a year, after which he signed with

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, thus becoming the first player to play for Rapid, Steaua and Dinamo. He won the

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title with Dinamo in which coaches

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and

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used him in only four matches, as

Mircea Constantinescu Mircea Constantinescu (born 25 February 1945) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Politehnica Iași, Dinamo București and SC Bacău. Club career Mircea Constantinescu was born on 25 February 1945 in Crăiești, Rom ...

was the team's first-choice goalkeeper. Andrei also made three appearances for the club in the

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, helping them get past

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in the first round, keeping a clean sheet in the first leg, but they got eliminated in the following round by

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. He made his last Divizia A appearance on 5 December 1971 in Dinamo's 3–1 away loss to SC Bacău, totaling 126 matches in the competition. Andrei ended his career after playing one season in the second league for

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with whom he won the

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. In 1967, Andrei was contacted by Peruvian champion

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, who wanted a European goalkeeper, but was denied a transfer there by Romania's communist regime.

International career

Andrei played one game for

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on 23 October 1965 under coach

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in a 2–1 loss to

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in the 1966 World Cup qualifiers. He also played for Romania's Olympic team, starting with a friendly that ended with a 2–1 victory against

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. Afterwards he was chosen by coach Silviu Ploeșteanu to be part of the

squad in

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, appearing in a 1–0 victory against

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and in a 4–2 win over

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, helping the team finish in fifth place.

Honours

Metalul Târgoviște *

: 1960–61 Rapid București *

: 1966–67 *

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: 1963–64, 1964–66 Steaua București *

: 1968–69 Progresul București *

: 1969–70 Dinamo București *

: 1970–71 Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea *

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrei, Marin 1940 births Living people Footballers from Târgoviște Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Romania Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics FCM Târgoviște players FC Rapid București players FC Progresul București players FCSB players FC Dinamo București players Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea players Liga I players Liga II players Men's association football goalkeepers 20th-century Romanian sportsmen