Gheorghe Brandabura
Personal information
Date of birth (1913-02-23)23 February 1913
Place of birth Fedeleșoiu, Argeș, Romania
Date of death Unknown
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1931–1940 Juventus București 152 (1)
1940–1948 Venus București[a] 23 (0)
Total 175 (1)
International career
1937–1938 Romania 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gheorghe Brandabura (23 February 1913 – date of death unknown) was a Romanian football midfielder who played for Romania at the 1938 World Cup.[3] He is deceased.[4]

Club career

Gheorghe Brandabura was born on 23 February 1913 in Fedeleșoiu, Argeș, Romania, starting to play football at Juventus București, making his debut for them under player-coach Emerich Vogl on 5 April 1931 in a 4–2 away victory over Venus București from the Regional championship.[5] In the 1931–32 season, he scored his first goal in a 5–2 home win with Olympia București.[6] In the following season, Brandabura helped Juventus gain promotion to Divizia A after winning the Regional championship and a promotion play-off.[7] He made his debut in the first league on 17 September 1933 under coach Ladislau Csillag in a 3–1 away victory with Ripensia Timișoara.[1][8] He spent seven seasons with the team in the first league, the highlights of this period being a third place in the 1935–36 season and reaching two times in a row the Cupa României semi-finals.[1][9] Brandabura left Juventus after the club relegated in the 1939–40 season, going to play for Venus București where he was used by coach Ștefan Auer in two games of the four from the 1940 Cupa României final against Rapid București which was eventually lost.[10][11] Brandabura made his last Divizia A appearance on 31 August 1941 in a goalless draw with Rapid, ending his career in 1948 after he spent the last two seasons of his career in Divizia B.[1]

International career

Gheorghe Brandabura played four games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 8 July 1937 under coach Constantin Rădulescu in a friendly which ended with a 2–0 away victory in front of Lithuania.[12][13] He was selected by coaches Săvulescu and Rădulescu to be part of the squad that participated at the 1938 World Cup.[12][14] He did not appear in the first game against Cuba, which ended 3–3 but Brandabura played in the replay which ended with a surprisingly 2–1 loss.[12][14][15]

Honours

Venus București

Notes

  1. ^ The Divizia A 1940–41 was the last season before World War II and the Divizia A 1946–47 was the first one after, so the appearances and goals scored during this period for Venus București are not official with the exception of the 1945–46 regional championship, also the statistics for the 1946–47 and 1947–48 Divizia B seasons are unavailable.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Gheorghe Brandabura at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XXIV – "Ultimul șut aduce promovarea"" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XXIV - "The Last Shot Gets the Promotion"] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  3. ^ "1938 FIFA World Cup France, Romania squad". Fifa.com. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  4. ^ "Murió el último futbolista presente en Italia 1934" [The last football player present in Italy died in 1934] (in Spanish). Bolavip.com. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  5. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XI – TITLUL DISTRICTUAL DECIS ŞI DE O CONTESTAŢIE" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XI - THE DISTRICT TITLE DECIDED AND BY A CONTEST] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  6. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XII – "Promovare pierduta in retur"" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XII - "Promotion lost in return"] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 5 April 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  7. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XIII – "PROMOVAREA ÎN DIVIZIA A" Partea I" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XIII – "PROMOTION TO DIVISION A" Part I] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 12 April 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
    "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XIII – "PROMOVAREA ÎN DIVIZIA A" Partea II" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XIII – "PROMOTION TO DIVISION A" Part II] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 19 April 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  8. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XIV – Debut de bun augur" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XIV – Auspicious Debut] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 26 April 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  9. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XV – O clasare jenanta" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XV – An embarrassing ranking] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 3 May 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
    "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XVI – Editia Premierelor" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XVI – Premiere Edition] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
    "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XVII – DIN NOU SEMIFINALISTĂ ÎN CUPĂ" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XVII – CUP SEMI-FINALIST AGAIN] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
    "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XVIII – O EDIŢIE MODESTĂ" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XVIII – A MODEST EDITION] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
    "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XIX – MEMORABILUL 7-2 CU CAMPIOANA RIPENSIA" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XIX – THE MEMORABLE 7-2 WITH CHAMPION RIPENSIA] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 31 May 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  10. ^ a b "Romanian Cup – 1939–1940". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  11. ^ "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XX – REORGANIZARE PĂGUBOASĂ" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XX – DAMAGED REORGANIZATION] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 8 June 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  12. ^ a b c "Gheorghe Brandabura". European Football. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  13. ^ "Lithuania 0-2 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  14. ^ a b "România – Cuba: povestea eliminării ruşinoase de la Cupa Mondială a primei generații de excepţie din istoria "tricolorilor"" [Romania – Cuba: the story of the shameful elimination from the World Cup of the first exceptional generation in the history of the "tricolors"] (in Romanian). Theplaymaker.ro. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  15. ^ "Cuba 3-3 România, 5 iunie 1938 (Campionatul Mondial din Franța '38)" [Cuba 3-3 Romania, June 5, 1938 (World Cup in France '38)] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
    "Campionatul Mondial din Franța '38: Cuba 2-1 România, 9 iunie 1938" [World Championship in France '38: Cuba 2-1 Romania, June 9, 1938] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 25 March 2024.

External links

Romania squad – 1938 FIFA World Cup
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