Nicolae Nagy
Nicolae Nagy (born 8 March 1942) is a Romanian former football forward.[1][2][3] Club careerNicolae Nagy was born 8 March 1942 in Marosvásárhely, Hungary (today Târgu Mureș in Romania), starting to play junior level football in 1957 at local club, Avântul.[1] In 1961 he started his senior career at Mureșul Târgu Mureș in Divizia B.[1] In 1962 he went to play for Viitorul București where he made his Divizia A debut on 9 September in a 0–0 with Știința Cluj.[1] After only one appearance for Viitorul he went back to the second league to play for Dinamo Obor București.[1] In 1963 he returned to first league football, signing with Dinamo Pitești, his first performance with the club being the reaching of the 1965 Cupa României final, being used by coach Virgil Mărdărescu all the minutes in the 2–1 loss in front of Știința Cluj.[1][4] In the 1965–66 season, he scored a personal record of 22 goals, being the second top-goalscorer of the league with only two goals behind Rapid București's Ion Ionescu.[1][5] In his first season played in European competitions he appeared in five games in the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, as in the first two rounds Dinamo Pitești eliminated Sevilla against whom he scored two goals and Toulouse, being defeated in the third round with 1–0 on aggregate by Dinamo Zagreb who eventually won the competition.[1][6] Afterwards, in 1967, Nagy went to play for two seasons at Dinamo București, the highlights of this period being a goal scored in a 2–0 win over rivals Steaua București and reaching the 1968 Cupa României final where coach Bazil Marian used him as a starter until the 77th minute when he replaced him with Mircea Lucescu in the eventual 3–1 victory against Rapid București.[1][7] He then went at ASA Târgu Mureș where in his first season the team relegated but Nagy stayed with club, helping it promote back to the first league after one year.[1] His spell at ASA consisted of eight seasons in which he also played three games in the UEFA Cup over the course of two editions, making his last Divizia A appearance on 30 June 1977 in a 3–1 away win over FCM Galați in which he scored once, having a total of 300 matches with 118 goals scored in the competition.[1] Nicolae Nagy ended his career one year later after spending one season in Divizia B at Gaz Metan Mediaș.[1] International careerBetween 1965 and 1966, Nicolae Nagy made six appearances with one goal scored for Romania's under-23 squad.[8] He played one game at international level for Romania's national team under coach Ilie Oană in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 victory against Israel.[9][10] HonoursDinamo Pitești
Dinamo București ASA Târgu Mureș References
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