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Alexandru Badea (8 March 1938 – 17 July 1986) was a Romanian footballer who played as a striker.




Club career


Alexandru Badea was born on 8 March 1938 in Bilciurești, Romania, starting to play junior level football in 1952 at Flacăra Moreni, two years later moving at neighboring club, GRT where he spent three years before returning to Flacăra where in 1958 he started to play for the senior squad in Divizia B.
In 1960 he went to play for Petrolul Ploiești where he made his Divizia A debut on 6 March in a 1–0 home loss in front of Progresul București. His first performance was winning the 1962–63 Cupa României, being used all the minutes by coach Ilie Oană in the 6–1 win over Siderurgistul Galați from the final. He then won the 1965–66 Divizia A championship, being used by coach Constantin Cernăianu in 23 matches in which he scored 11 goals. Badea played two games for The Yellow Wolves in the first round of the 1966–67 European Cup against Liverpool which include a 3–1 victory, however they did not manage to qualify to the next round.
In 1968 he went to play for Farul Constanța where on 27 June 1971 he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 4–1 away loss in front of Rapid București, having a total of 268 games with 61 goals scored in the competition, also gaining a total of 17 matches with two goals in European competitions (including 13 appearances and two goals scored in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup). Afterwards he went at Divizia C club, Gloria Buzău where in his first season he scored 25 goals which helped the team promote to Divizia B where after he played two seasons, Badea retired.




International career


Alexandru Badea played four matches at international level for Romania, scoring two goals, making his debut under coach Ilie Oană on 21 November 1965 against Eusébio's Portugal in a 1966 World Cup qualification match, scoring Romania's final goal in a 2–0 home victory. His following three games were friendlies, the last one taking place on 7 December 1966 in a 2–1 away victory against Israel in which he scored once.




= International goals

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Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Badea goal.




Style of play


In the book Petrolul Ploiești, Istorie și Tradiție (Petrolul Ploiești, History and Tradition), writer Răzvan Frațilă described Badea's style of play as:"An artist of the green rectangle, who slipped with the skill of a fencer between the barricades of concrete defenses, dominated by force. A complete footballer, capable of acting all over the field".




Death


Alexandru Badea died on 17 July 1986 in Ploiești at age 48.




Honours


Petrolul Ploiești

Divizia A: 1965–66
Cupa României: 1962–63
Gloria Buzău

Divizia C: 1971–72




References






External links


Alexandru Badea at WorldFootball.net
Alexandru Badea at Labtof.ro

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