Traian Ivănescu (5 May 1933 – 29 July 2019) was a Romanian

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player and

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Career

Born in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

, Ivănescu played youth football with Militari București and Flamura Roşie București, before making his senior debut in 1951 with Flacăra București. He later played for CCA Steaua București, Progresul București,

Siderurgistul Galați Siderurgistul Galați was a football club based in Galaţi, Romania. It was founded in 1955 and dissolved in 1967. History The club was founded in 1955 as ''Dinamo Galați'' and in 1961 it was renamed to CSO Galați, and afterwards to Siderurg ...

and

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, before retiring in 1966. He was married to

Doina Ivănescu Doina Ivănescu (January 22, 1935 – 1996) was a professional volleyball player in Romania. In 1964, she went to the Olympics and helped Romania capture fourth place. She was born in Blaj, in Alba County, Romania.volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player who represented her country at the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subseq ...

. He also earned one cap for

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in 1954. Ivănescu later became a coach. He died on 29 July 2019, aged 86.

Honours

Player

;Steaua București *

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(5):

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

, 1959–60, 1960–61 *

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 ...

(3):

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

, 1961–62 ;Siderurgistul Galați * Romanian Second Division (1): 1964–65 ;Jiul Petroșani * Romanian Second Division (1): 1965–66

Manager

;Jiul Petroșani *

(1): 1973–74 ;Flacăra Moreni * Romanian Second Division (1): 1985–86

References

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