Vasile Stan (born 11 February 1945) is a

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n former football

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Playing career

Vasile Stan was born on 11 February 1945 in

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and he started to play football at age 15 under the guidance of coach Lăzărescu at fourth league side, F.C.M.E. In 1966 he went to play for Dinamo Victoria București in

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. One year later, Stan switched teams again, going to play for Argeș Pitești for which he made his

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debut under coach Ion Bălănescu on 24 September 1967, keeping a clean sheet in a 4–0 home win over Dinamo Bacău. He played only four games in his first top-league season, as Narcis Coman was preferred as first-choice goalkeeper, so he went to play for Jiul Petroșani where he worked with coach

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, being first-choice for three seasons. Afterwards he returned to Argeș where in his first season coaches Ozon and

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used him in 29 games from a total of 30, helping the club win the first title in its history. Then he started to play in European competitions, appearing in four games from the

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campaign, eliminating Aris Bonnevoie in the first round, keeping clean sheets in both legs, then in the following one they won a home game with 2–1 against

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but lost the second leg with 3–1 in which he conceded two goals from Santillana and one from Toni Grande. Stan also played in the first leg from the first round of the

1973–74 UEFA Cup The 1973–74 UEFA Cup was the third season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at White Hart Lane, London, England, and at De Kuip, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was wo ...

, conceding five goals in the 5–1 loss in front of Fenerbahçe. In 1975 he went to play one season for Politehnica Iași where he worked with coach Ilie Oană, making his last Divizia A appearance on 20 June 1976 in a 3–1 home win over FC Constanța, having a total of 204 games in which he conceded 227 goals. Stan ended his career at Muscelul Câmpulung where coach was his former Argeș teammate, Ion Barbu and he was colleague with other former Argeș teammates like Constantin Radu, Radu Jercan and

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, managing to promote the team from the third league to the second.

Coaching career

After he ended his playing career, Vasile Stan worked as a coach, firstly as an assistant at Dacia Pitești, later as a head coach at the same team. He also was head coach at IPA Slatina and Muscelul Câmpulung. He was the assistant coach of Nicolae Dobrin and Constantin Cârstea at Argeș Pitești, also being head coach for short periods of time, firstly in 2002 and secondly in 2006 when he coached for the last five games of the season after

Sorin Cârțu Sorin Cârțu (born 12 November 1955) is a former football striker and football coach, currently honorary president at Liga I club Universitatea Craiova. Cârțu won two Romanian Championships and four Romanian Cups with Universitatea Craiov ...

was dismissed.

Honours

Argeș Pitești *

: 1971–72 Muscelul Câmpulung *

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: 1976–77

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