Traian Iordache

Traian Iordache
Personal information
Date of birth (1911-10-10)10 October 1911
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Date of death 3 April 1999(1999-04-03) (aged 87)
Place of death Iași, Romania
Position Striker
Youth career
1927–1932 Teișor București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1932–1938 Unirea Tricolor București 38 (34)
1938–1945 Venus București 55 (32)
1945–1946 Carmen București 10 (9)
Total 103 (75)
International career
1938–1940 Romania B 3 (1)
1938–1942 Romania 3 (0)
Managerial career
1950–1953 Farul Constanța
1957–1958 Știința Iași
1962–1963 CSMS Iași
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Traian Iordache (10 October 1911 – 3 April 1999) was a Romanian football striker and coach.

Club career

Iordache was born on 10 October 1911 in Bucharest, Romania and began playing football in 1927 at local club Teișor.[1] He joined Unirea Tricolor București in 1932.[1][2] Subsequently, Iordache made his Divizia A debut on 30 August 1936 under coach Petre Steinbach in an 8–1 victory against Chinezul Timișoara in which he scored one goal.[1][3] Until the end of the 1936–37 season, he scored 21 goals which made him the league top-scorer alongside Ripensia Timișoara's Ștefan Dobay.[1][4]

In 1938, Iordache joined Venus București, and in his first season, he played 11 matches with five goals scored under coach Béla Jánosy to help the club win the title.[1][2][5][6] He won another title in the 1939–40 season, this time scoring 14 goals in 21 matches under the guidance of Jánosy.[1][5][6] The team also reached the 1940 Cupa României final, a four-game series in which Iordache played in all matches, scoring a goal in the first and the third before they eventually lost the last game to Rapid București.[7] He made his last Divizia A appearance on 15 June 1941 in a 4–1 loss to Ripensia Timișoara, totaling 93 matches with 66 goals in the competition.[1] Iordache retired in 1946 after playing one season for Carmen București.[1][2]

International career

From 1938 to 1940, Iordache played three matches and scored once for Romania B.[1][8]

Iordache played three friendly games for Romania, making his debut on 8 May 1938 under coach Constantin Rădulescu in a 1–0 loss to Yugoslavia.[9][10] The following two matches, which resulted in losses to Germany and Slovakia, took place in 1942.[9]

Managerial career

Iordache coached Farul Constanța from 1950 to 1953.[11] Afterwards, he coached Știința Iași during the 1957–58 Divizia B season.[2][12][13] He led the club —which was renamed CSMS Iași— once again for 27 rounds in the 1962–63 Divizia A season.[2][12][13][14] Subsequently, he worked for the club's junior center, teaching generations of players, including Vasile Iordache.[2][12][13]

Death

Iordache died on 3 April 1999 at the age of 87.[2][9]

Honours

Venus București

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Traian Iordache at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "A murit antrenorul Traian Iordache" (in Romanian). Ziarul de Iași. 6 April 1999.
  3. ↑ "Unirea Tricolor Bucuresti 8 – 1 Chinezul Timisoara". Labtof. Retrieved 5 August 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Top Scorers" (in Romanian). Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  6. 1 2 "FOTBAL. Noua CAMPIOANA a ROMANIEI. Ce mai vuiet, ce mai larma..." (in Romanian). Vechi.timisoaraexpress.ro. 14 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  7. 1 2 "Romanian Cup – Season 1939–1940". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "Traian Iordache profile". 11v11. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  9. 1 2 3 "Traian Iordache profile". European Football. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Romania 0-1 Yugoslavia". European Football. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  11. ↑ "Poveşti din fotbalul mic: Textila Buhuşi, la un pas de prima divizie" (in Romanian). Welovesport.ro. 22 May 2026. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  12. 1 2 3 "La mulți ani, Politehnica, oriunde te afli! File de poveste din istoria unui club care, mai mare rușinea!, stă uitat de lume la ceas aniversar" (in Romanian). Ziarul de Iași. 27 April 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  13. 1 2 3 "Personalități scrise cu litere de tipar în cartea de aur a lui Poli. Tabloul de onoare al fotbalului ieșean" (in Romanian). Ziarul de Iași. 23 April 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  14. ↑ "Traian Iordache profile". Labtof. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
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