Vasile Zavoda
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Vasile Zavoda, (born July 26, 1929 in Rodna Veche, Bistriţa), is a former Romanian football player.
He played for Metalul Baia Mare between 1947 and 1951, before joining CCA Bucharest. In 1964, aged 35, Zavoda plays his last season, for ASA Târgu Mureş before calling it a day.
Zavoda, one of the best defender the Romanian football ever produced, played 248 games in Romania's Divizia A and scored two goals. He also won 20 caps for Romania, the first in 1951 against Czechoslovakia, the last one in 1962 against East Germany.
He is brother of Francisc Zavoda.
Today he lives in Bucharest, in the same block of flats with his great friend and former team-mate Ion Voinescu. The couple meet every day to discuss about football and Steaua.