Ionel Augustin

Ionel Augustin, nicknamed Oneață was born on 11 October 1955 in Bucharest and started to play football in 1966 at junior level at Dinamo București, making his Divizia A debut for the senior squad on 23 April 1975 in a 5–0 victory against Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea.[2][3] He spent eleven seasons with Dinamo, winning four Divizia A titles, in the first he played 5 games, in the second he played 31 games and scored 7 goals, in the third he made 31 appearances with 14 goals and in the last one he scored 17 goals in 31 matches, also winning three Cupa României.[2] He played a total of 33 games in which he scored 10 goals in European competitions, helping the The Red Dogs eliminate Inter Milan by scoring one goal in the 4–3 victory on aggregate from the 1981–82 UEFA Cup, also managing to reach the semi-finals in the 1983–84 European Cup campaign by appearing in 7 matches, scoring one goal against Kuusysi Lahti, one in a 3–0 victory from the first leg that helped them eliminate title holders, Hamburg and one against Dinamo Minsk.[2][3][4][5][6] Augustin also played for Jiul Petroșani, Victoria București and Rapid București, having a total of 383 Divizia A matches in which he scored 111 goals.[2][3] Augustin ended his career in 1990 after playing two seasons in Divizia B for Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea and Unirea Slobozia.[2]

Ionel Augustin played 34 matches and scored 3 goals for Romania, making his debut on 13 December 1978 under coach Ștefan Kovacs in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 loss against Greece.[7][8] He played two games in which he scored one goal at the Euro 1980 qualifiers, he played in the first leg of the 1977–80 Balkan Cup final, which ended with a 2–0 defeat against Yugoslavia, he played two games 1982 World Cup qualifiers and he played 6 games at the successful Euro 1984 qualifiers, also being selected by coach Mircea Lucescu to be part of the Euro 1984 squad, playing in a group game against Portugal which ended with a 1–0 loss.[7] Augustin played in a 3–2 loss against Northern Ireland at the 1986 World Cup qualifiers, his last two games played for the national team being friendlies, a 1–1 and a 0–0 against Iraq, Augustin scoring Romania's goal in the first one.[7]

International goals

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Augustin goal.[7]

List of international goals scored by Ionel Augustin

#	Date	Venue	Cap	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	13 May 1979	Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus	2	Cyprus	1–1	1–1	Euro 1980 qualifiers
2.	18 May 1982	Estadio Nacional de Chile, Ñuñoa, Chile	15	Chile	3–0	3–2	Friendly
3.	14 March 1986	Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad, Iraq	33	Iraq	1–0	1–1	Friendly

Dinamo București

• Divizia A: 1974–75, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84[2]
• Cupa României: 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86[2]
• Trofeo Costa de Valencia: 1978[9]

• Ionel Augustin at WorldFootball.net
• Ionel Augustin at National-Football-Teams.com