Nicolae Dobrin
Nicolae Dobrin ( born August 26, 1947 in Piteşti, † October 26, 2007 ) was a Romanian football player. He was elected three times to Romania's Footballer of the Year and played 408 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A. He also participated in the World Cup 1970.
Playing career
Nicolae Dobrin began his football career in his home town of Pitesti at the Dinamo Piteşti ( FC Arges Pitesti in 1968 ). At the age of 14 he played on July 1, 1962 his first game in Divizia A. Then Dinamo dismounted in the Divizia B, but the club managed the immediate resurgence.
Dobrin remained his home club for 21 years faithful. During this time he won twice the Romanian Championship, where he succeeded in 1979 the winning goal in last season's game against Dinamo Bucharest. In the years 1966, 1967 and 1971 Dobrin was voted Footballer of the Year in Romania.
He lay in front of numerous offers of partly international top teams like Real Madrid, but also of other Romanian teams ( Dinamo Bucharest and Craiova Universitatea ) for a change of club. This he has all knocked out. The move to Real Madrid had forbidden him eliminate the effects of governance in Romania. The insistence of the then political leadership sport after switching to the Romanian top clubs Dinamo Bucharest and Craiova Universitatea he opposed with success. Only at the beginning of the season 1980/81 he went to the CS Târgoviste in the Divizia B. With this team he once again reached the summit in the Divizia A. But he had already passed the zenith of his career and was there only rarely as a player used for his team. Therefore, he took the opportunity to return in 1982 to its origin Arges Pitesti club. There he a year later ended his career as a player.
National
Dobrin played 48 caps for the Romanian national football team. He made his debut on June 1, 1966 against Germany in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Dobrin was also nominated for the FIFA World Cup in Mexico in 1970, was there but not used.
Coaching career
Even as Active Dobrin in 1982 trainer of the club FC Arges Pitesti, for which he still graduated five games in the same season. In 1985, he resigned as coach and moved to the Divizia B to FC Botosani. After a year he returned to FC Arges Pitesti and became head of the youth department.
Sporting successes
- World Cup participants: 1970
- Romanian champion: 1972, 1979
- Romanian Footballer of the Year: 1966, 1967, 1971
Others
Dobrin suffered as a heavy smoker for many years to lung cancer. On 23 October 2007 he was therefore admitted to the district hospital of Pitesti, where he died three days later. Already at Dobrins lifetime the stadium was his hometown Pitesti, Arges Pitesti in which the FC plays its home games named after him. Dobrin had ( German: gander ) in his playing days, the nickname Gâscanul and Printul din Trivale ( German: The Prince of Trivale, according to the district Trivale in which there is the stadium of FC Arges Pitesti ) is obtained. The Romanian sports journalist Ilie Dobre wrote about him two books Dobrin, la clipa aminitirilor ( Editura Divertis, 1992) and Printul din Trivale la Ultimul Dribling ( Editura Paralela 45, 2008). By George Mihalache the book Sa dus Printul comes din Trivale, which was published in Editura PACO 2007.