Gheorghe Albu

Gheorghe " Ghiţă " Albu ( born November 18, 1909 in Arad, Austria - Hungary, † June 26, 1974 ) was a Romanian football player and coach. He played 137 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A, and participated in the World Cup 1934.

Career as a player

Gheorghe Albu began his career in 1924 in his hometown at AMEF Arad Arad, from where he moved to former Romanian runner Jiul Lupeni 1928. This took time still on the playful high classifiable Arad district championship in part, but could not qualify for the finals of the Romanian Cup 1928/29. In the season 1929/30, Jiul Lupeni moved into the district championship from Oltenia, where he was indeed Oltul Slatina and the teams from Craiova sporty superior, but found itself confronted with massive hostility and therefore in the spring of 1930, withdrew from the championship. Albu then moved back to Arad and played for Gloria CFR Arad, with whom he at once for the final game of the season 1929/30 qualified. When Gloria CFR he remained after the founding of the Romanian professional football league, the Divizia A, in 1932, a year before in 1933 the Romanian giants Venus Bucharest joined. With Venus he won four times the Romanian championship, but came in the 1939/40 season only once used, so that he moved to the league rivals FC Craiova 1940. Here Albu finished his career in 1944.

National

Albu came in a total of 42 appearances for the Romanian national football team to use, but without achieving this one goal. His first game was against Bulgaria on May 10, 1931. With the Football World Cup 1934 in Italy Albu was used in the only game of Romania against Czechoslovakia. He was dressed in 16 internationals as captain of Romania's national team.

Career as a coach

Albu began in 1947 with his former club FC Craiova to work as a coach. By 1959, followed by engagements with TEXTILA Sfântu Gheorghe, Foresta Fălticeni, Dermata Cluj, UTA Arad and Chimia Fagaras. Between 1959 and 1962 he coached AMEF Arad, the club where he started his playing career. Then he oversaw still Vagonul Arad for two seasons before 1964 and settled in Fagaras to work there until his retirement as a youth coach at Chimia.

Achievements

  • World Cup participants: 1934
  • Balkan Cup winners 1929/31, 1933, 1936
  • European champions of the National Football Teams ( Amateur ): 1931/34
  • Freundschaftscupsieger: 1936
  • Romanian champion: 1934, 1937, 1939, 1940
Defender (association football) Liga I 1939–40 Divizia A
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