Ion Pârcălab

Ion Pârcălab
Personal information
Full name Pârcălab I. Ion
Date of birth (1941-11-05) 5 November 1941
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1961 UTA Arad 38 (13)
1961–1970 Dinamo Bucureşti 194 (53)
1970–1973 Nîmes Olympique 83 (20)
National team
1961–1968 Romania 38 (5)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Ion Pârcălab (born 5 November 1941)[1] is a retired Romanian footballer. He was nicknamed "The Carpathian Arrow" by coach Helenio Herrera.

His last name is sometimes spelled Pîrcălab. He had to change the spelling of his last name in 1953 (due to a Romanian language spelling reform) to Pîrcălab, but in 1993 the spelling was reverted to Pârcălab. Which means the during his football career he had to use the spelling Pîrcălab (see Romanian special letters).

Pârcălab played for UTA Arad, Dinamo Bucureşti and Nîmes Olympique in France.

In 1965, he was awarded the title "Best Football Player" in Romania. He won four titles in a row with Dinamo București. He also participated at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with the Romanian national team.

Honours

Club

Dinamo Bucharest
Nîmes Olympique

Notes

  1. Football sources report his date of birth as being 5 November while Olympic sources report his date of birth as being 15 November.

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