Ștefan Iovan
Ştefan Iovan ( born August 23, 1960 in Moţăţei, Dolj county ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach. The defender played 365 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A, and was captain of the team of Steaua Bucharest, who won the European Champions Cup in 1986.
Career as a player
The career of Iovan started at FCM Resita, where he arrived at the age of 17 years in the first team and on September 4, 1977 his first game in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A denied. At the end of his first season with the club rose from the Divizia B.
After a year at Luceafarul Bucharest Iovan returned in 1979 after Resita. The Romanian giants Steaua Bucharest became aware of him through his achievements and brought him in January 1981 in the capital. In his first season he became a regular player. In the ten years that played for Steaua Iovan, he could win with the club five times the Romanian Championship and the Romanian Cup four times. The high point of this period is the winning the European Champions' Cup in 1986 in Seville against FC Barcelona, as Iovan was allowed to receive the trophy as captain. Three years later he was again in the final, but was defeated in Barcelona AC Milan.
During the winter break 1990/91 Iovan moved for a transfer fee of U.S. $ 200,000 abroad and Brighton & Hove Albion joined in the English Second Division. The one and a half years in England were under an unlucky star, because Iovan was rarely used, and in 1992 the club descended into the Third Division.
Iovan returned to Romania Steaua back, but was also rarely used and changed into the winter break 1992/93 for local rivals Rapid Bucharest. There he was able to fight back a regular place. When he had lost this again in the 1994/95 season, he moved to league rivals Electro Craiova.
At the end of his career, he returned in 1996 returned to his hometown club CSM Resita and helped to achieve promotion to the Divizia A. In 1997, he hung up his football boots on the nail.
National
Iovan played 35 games for the Romanian national football team, scoring three goals. He had his first operation on 1 June 1983, when he came off the bench in a friendly against Yugoslavia in the 81st minute for Michael Klein. First, he came only in some friendly matches and was used until 1985 for the tribe of the national team.
Iovan it was not allowed to participate in an international tournament. During the qualification was missed for the 1986 World Cup and the European Championship in 1988, it belongs to that team that on 15 November 1989 made perfect qualification for the 1990 World Cup in the match against Denmark. However, he was not taken into account by national coach Emerich Jenei for the Romanian squad.
After the World Cup he was still the national squad at, but was not taken into account after the European Championship qualifier against San Marino on December 5, 1990 by Gheorghe Constantin, since he hardly used at his club Brighton & Hove Albion.
Career as a coach
After the end of his active career Iovan worked as a youth coach of Steaua Bucharest, before 2000 Assistant to Victor Piţurcă at Steaua first team was in the year. This commitment, he also continued in Piţurcăs second term in 2002. In 2004, he followed him to the Romanian national team and was up to Piţurcăs dismissal in 2009, also the assistant coach. Then his successor Razvan Lucescu took over him. After Lucescu's resignation on June 4, 2011 Iovan was interim coach of the Romanian national team during an international match trip to South America.
Achievements
As a player
- European Cup Winners ' Cup: 1986
- Finalist in the European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1989
- European Super Cup winner: 1986 ( played 1987)
- Romanian champion: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
- Romanian Cup Winners: 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989
- Rise in the Divizia A: 1997