Lajos Sătmăreanu
Personal information
Date of birth (1944-02-21) 21 February 1944
Place of birth Salonta, Romania
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
1958–1961 Recolta Salonta
1961–1962 Crișana Oradea
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1963 Crișana Oradea 1 (0)
1963–1964 Flamura Roșie Oradea 18 (1)
1964–1965 ASA Târgu Mureș 12 (1)
1965–1975 Steaua București 271 (11)
1975 Bihor Oradea 14 (1)
1975–1977 Progresul București[lower-alpha 1] 20 (0)
Total 336 (14)
International career
1965–1967 Romania Olympic[2] 10 (0)
1967–1973 Romania[3] 42 (1)
Managerial career
1977–2011 Steaua București (juniors)
2011 Școala Privată de Fotbal "Vasile Matincă" (juniors)
2011–2016 Argeșul Mihăilești
2016– CSA Steaua București (juniors)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lajos Sătmăreanu (also Ludovic Sătmăreanu, Hungarian: Szatmári Lajos, born 21 February 1944) is a former Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity.[4]

Club career

Lajos Sătmăreanu, nicknamed Facchetti of the Carpathians was born on 21 February 1944 in Salonta, Romania and started to play football in 1958 at local club, Recolta.[1][4][5] He made his Divizia A debut on 17 March 1963, playing for Crișana Oradea in a 4–2 away loss against Steaua București, shortly afterwards moving to play at neighboring team, Flamura Roșie Oradea in Divizia B for one season.[1][4][5] After another Divizia B season, this time spent at ASA Târgu Mureș, Sătmăreanu went to play at Steaua for 10 seasons, winning one Divizia A title in the 1967–68 season, being used by coach Ștefan Kovács in 26 matches and also winning 5 Cupa României, scoring the last goal of the 4–0 victory against UTA Arad from the 1966 final.[1][4][5][6][7] German club Hertha BSC wanted to sign Sătmăreanu after his performance at the 1970 World Cup, but Romania's communist regime refused to let him go.[8] During his period spent with The Military Men he also played 20 games in European competitions, taking part in the 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup campaign, playing all six games as the team reached the quarter-finals by eliminating Hibernians and Barcelona, being eliminated after 1–1 on aggregate on the away goal rule by Bayern Munich.[1][5][8][9][10][11] In 1975 he went to play at fellow Divizia A team, Bihor Oradea, leaving after half of season to go play in Divizia B for Progresul București, helping the team earn the promotion to the first league, making his last Divizia A appearance on 8 June 1977 in a 2–1 home victory against FCM Reșiţa, having a total of 306 matches with 6 goals scored in the competition.[1][4][5][8]

International career

"Sătmăreanu was one of the most constant players I had at the World Cup from Mexico."

–Angelo Niculescu, former Romania manager[5]

Lajos Sătmăreanu played for Romania in 42 matches, scoring one goal, making his debut under coach Bazil Marian in a 1–1 friendly against Uruguay, which took place in Montevideo on Estadio Gran Parque Central.[3][12] He played six games at the successful 1970 World Cup qualifiers, also being used by coach Angelo Niculescu in all the minutes of the three group matches from the final tournament as Romania did not advance to the next stage.[3] Sătmăreanu also played 9 matches at the 1972 Euro qualifiers, scoring one goal in the first quarter-finals game out of three against Hungary, who eventually defeated Romania in the third game, advancing to the final tournament.[3] He played four matches at the 1974 World Cup qualifiers, his last match being a 1–0 victory against East Germany.[3][13]

International goals

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sătmăreanu goal.[3]
List of international goals scored by Lajos Sătmăreanu
#DateVenueCapOpponentScoreResultCompetition
129 April 1972Népstadion, Budapest, Hungary31 Hungary1–11–1Euro 1972 quarter-finals

Coaching career

Lajos Sătmăreanu worked as a coach at the juvenile level, mostly at Steaua București where between 1977 and 2011 he taught and formed generations of players, which include Daniel Gherasim, Dan Petrescu, Marius Mitu, Robert Niță and George Ogăraru.[5][14] Afterwards he coached juniors at Școala Privată de Fotbal "Vasile Matincă" for a short while, then he coached senior team Argeșul Mihăilești in the Romanian lower leagues for a few years, before returning to coaching juniors in 2016 at CSA Steaua București.[5][8][14][15][16][17]

Honours

Steaua București

Progresul București

Notes

  1. ↑ The statistics for the 1975–76 Divizia B season are unavailable.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Lajos Sătmăreanu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ↑ "Lajos Sătmăreanu profile". 11v11. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Lajos Sătmăreanu". European Football. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 ""Angelo Niculescu mi-a zis că nu mă bagă pentru că sunt maghiar şi Partidul crede că vând meciul. Sper să nu prind ziua când ne vor bate iar"" ["Angelo Niculescu told me that he won't use me because I'm Hungarian and the Party thinks I'm selling the match. I hope I don't catch the day when they beat us again"] (in Romanian). Orangesport.ro. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ""Facchetti" din Carpaţi" ["Facchetti" from the Carpathians] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  6. ↑ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "Romanian Cup – Season 1965–1966". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Lajos Sătmăreanu a împlinit 78 de ani! Interviu de colecție cu legenda roș-albastră despre adevărata Steaua, românul care era la nivelul lui Cruyff și fotbalul de azi: "E o nebunie! Unde se va ajunge?!"" [Lajos Sătmăreanu turned 78 years old! Collection interview with the red-blue legend about the real Steaua, the Romanian who was at Cruyff's level and today's football: "It's crazy! Where will it end?!"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 21 February 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "În 1972, Steaua a fost la un pas să o elimine pe Bayern" [In 1972, Steaua was one step away from eliminating Bayern] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 16 September 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  10. ↑ "Cupa Cupelor, sezonul 1971/72, sferturi: Steaua 1-1 Bayern, 8 martie 1972" [Cup Winners' Cup, season 1971/72, quarter-finals: Steaua 1-1 Bayern, 8 March 1972]. Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  11. ↑ "Lajos Sătmăreanu. UEFA Cup Winners Cup 1971/1972". WorldFootball. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  12. ↑ "Uruguay - Romania 1:1". European Football. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  13. ↑ "Romania 1-0 East Germany". European Football. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  14. 1 2 "Dat afară de la Steaua, Lajos Sătmăreanu antrenează la şcoala fostului său elev, Vasile Matincă: "Altfel nu pot să trăiesc!"" [Dismissed from Steaua, Lajos Sătmăreanu trains at the school of his former student, Vasile Matincă: " Otherwise I can't live!"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  15. ↑ "Falemi si-a gasit echipa in Liga a IV-a! Fostul stelist antreneaza la Mihailesti" [Falemi found his team in the 4th League! The former Steaua player trains at Mihailesti] (in Romanian). Sptfm.ro. 4 September 2006. Archived from the original on 27 October 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  16. ↑ "Lajos Sătmăreanu a vorbit despre CSA Steaua: "Un proiect serios. Armata nu se joacă!"" [Lajos Sătmăreanu spoke about CSA Steaua: "A serious project. The army does not play!"] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  17. ↑ "Lajos Sătmăreanu îi va enerva pe ultrașii de la CSA Steaua: "Mă doare că FCSB nu e pe primul loc!"" [Lajos Sătmăreanu will annoy the ultras from CSA Steaua: "It hurts me that FCSB is not in first place!"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2022.

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