| Vasile Anghel | |
| Birth Date: | 22 November 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Buzău, Romania |
| Death Place: | Bucharest, Romania |
| Height: | 1.75 m |
| Position: | Forward |
| Youthyears1: | 1950–1954 |
| Youthclubs1: | Locomotiva CFR Buzău |
| Youthyears2: | 1954 |
| Youthclubs2: | Voința București |
| Years1: | 1955 |
| Clubs1: | Progresul București |
| Years2: | 1956–1962 |
| Caps2: | 84 |
| Goals2: | 13 |
| Years3: | 1963 |
| Caps3: | 8 |
| Goals3: | 3 |
| Totalcaps: | 92 |
| Totalgoals: | 16 |
| Nationalyears1: | 1957–1959 |
| Nationalcaps1: | 5 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Vasile Anghel (22 November 1937 – 12 September 2014) was a Romanian footballer who played as a forward.[1]
Vasile Anghel was born on 22 November 1937 in Buzău, Romania and he started to play football at junior level in 1950 at local club, Locomotiva CFR.[2] [3] In 1954, he ended with junior period at Voința București, afterwards starting his senior career at Divizia B club, Progresul București.[2] [3]
He went to play for Dinamo București where he made his Divizia A debut under coach Angelo Niculescu on 11 April 1956 in a derby against CCA București which ended with a 4–0 loss.[2] [3] [4] He played in the first European match of a Romanian team in the 1956–57 European Cup in the 3–1 victory against Galatasaray, helping The Red Dogs go to the next phase of the competition where they were eliminated by CDNA Sofia, appearing in a total of 3 games from the campaign.[5] [6] Anghel played all the minutes under the guidance of coach Iuliu Baratky in the 1959 Cupa României final, managing to score a goal in the 4–0 victory against CSM Baia Mare, helping Dinamo win the first Cupa României trophy in the club's history.[2] [7] [8] In the 1961–62 season, he was used by coaches Traian Ionescu, Constantin Teașcă and Nicolae Dumitru in five games as Dinamo won the title, then in the following season the club won another title with Anghel being used by Ionescu and Dumitru in only three games from the first half of the season, being transferred at Petrolul Ploiești for the second half where he won the 1962–63 Cupa României but coach Ilie Oană did not use him in the final.[9] [10] Anghel made his last Divizia A appearance, playing for The Yellow Wolves on 9 June 1963 in a 2–0 away loss against Știința Timișoara, having a total of 92 matches and 16 goals scored in the competition, also he has four appearances in the European Cup and one in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.[11] [1]
After he ended his playing career at Metalul Buzău, Anghel worked as Dinamo București's president from 1980 until 1988, a period in which the club won three league titles, two cups and reached the European Cup semi-finals in the 1983–84 edition, also he worked as a technical director at Petrolul Ploiești from 1988 until 1989 and Rapid București from 1989 until 1990.[11] [1] [2] [3]
Vasile Anghel played four games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 1 June 1957 under coach Gheorghe Popescu I in a friendly which ended 1–1 with Soviet Union.[12] His following games were a 2–1 away victory against Greece and a 1–1 with Yugoslavia at the 1958 World Cup qualifiers, his last appearance taking place on 26 April 1959 in a 2–0 away loss in front of Turkey at the 1960 European Nations' Cup qualifiers.
Vasile Anghel died on 12 September 2014, aged 76 in Bucharest after suffering a heart attack.[11] [1] [2] [3]
Dinamo București