Vasile Zavoda

Vasile Zavoda ( born July 26, 1929 in Rodna Veche ) is a former Romanian football player and coach. He played 248 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A, and participated in the 1952 Olympics. To avoid confusion with his brother Francisc Zavoda, he was led into the Romanian sports press as Zavoda II.

Career as a player

Vasile Zavoda began at the age of eleven years playing football at Tricolor Baia Mare and later moved to local rivals Phoenix Baia Mare. After Baia Mare had fallen by the Second Vienna Award in Hungary, he played in the Hungarian national youth team. At age 16, he moved up to the first team of Phoenix, which at that time in the second highest Romanian League, the Divizia B, played. After the 1946/47 season he moved to local rivals Minaur Baia Mare, who was not among the best 28 of the 64 teams in the second division is encountered season 1947/48 and therefore had to dismount. In July 1948, merged Minaur and Phoenix to CSM Baia Mare. The new club competed in the Divizia B and renamed itself in 1950, when Zavoda played there, in Metalul to Baia Mare. Then moved Zavoda in the capital Bucharest to CCA, which was renamed in December 1961 in Steaua Bucharest. He debuted on March 25, 1951 at the home game against StiinTa Cluj in Divizia A and experienced players as the initial success with the club. Until 1964, he won six times the Romanian Championship and the Romanian Cup five times.

As Zavoda not more regularly came into use in the season 1963/64, the left the club and joined AS Armata Tirgu Mures, who played in Divizia B. There, he finished his career in 1965.

National

Zavoda played 20 games for the Romanian national football team, but not score. His start he gave on May 20, 1951 against Czechoslovakia. He stood in the squad Romania for the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki and came in the only game to eventual Olympic champion Hungary used.

Career as a coach

Vasile Zavoda belonged from 1965 to the coaching staff of Steaua Bucharest. In 1974, he was assistant coach of Constantin Ardeleanu with the Romanian national youth team and from 1977 to 1981 assistant coach at Steaua Bucharest under Emerich Jenei and Gheorghe Constantin. In 1989 he withdrew from the world of football.

Awards and achievements

As a player

  • Participants in the Olympic Games: 1952
  • Romanian champion: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1960, 1961
  • Romanian Cup Winners: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1962
  • Honored Master of Sports

Others

Vasile Zavoda is the younger brother of Francisc Zavoda, with whom he played from 1951 to 1960 together with CCA Bucharest. Zavoda now lives in Bucharest in the same apartment block as his friend and former teammate Ion Voinescu.

Defender (association football) Liga I Liga II FCM Baia Mare 1963–64 Divizia A
799177
de