Gheorghe Ene

Gheorghe Ene II

Personal information
Full name	Gheorghe Ene
Date of birth	(1937-01-27)27 January 1937
Place of birth	București, Romania
Date of death	6 April 2009(2009-04-06) (aged 72)
Place of death	București, Romania
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1952	Progresul ICAS București
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954	Voința București
1955	Progresul CPCS București
1956–1960	Rapid București[a]	73	(36)
1960–1967	Dinamo București	133	(75)
1967–1968	Dinamo Bacău	21	(5)
Total		227	(116)
International career
1955–1961	Romania	3	(0)
Managerial career
1975–76	Jiul Petroșani
1978	Jiul Petroșani
	Unirea Slobozia
	Muscelul Câmpulung
	CS Târgoviște
1983	Corvinul Hunedoara
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gheorghe Ene (also known as Gheorghe Ene II; 27 January 1937 – 6 April 2009) was a Romanian football striker and coach.

Club career

Gheorghe Ene was born on 27 January 1937 in București, Romania and started to play football in 1952, aged 14 at junior level at Progresul ICAS București.^[1][2][3] In 1954, he started his senior career at Voința București, moving after one season at Progresul CPCS București.^[1][4][5] On 18 March 1956 he made his Divizia A debut, playing for Rapid București in a 1–1 with Minerul Petroșani.^[1] During his four seasons spent with The Railwaymen, Ene became the top scorer of the 1958–59 Divizia A with 17 goals scored.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

He went to play for Dinamo București where from 1962 until 1965 he helped the club win four consecutive Divizia A titles, in the first he worked with three coaches Traian Ionescu, Constantin Teașcă and Nicolae Dumitru who gave him 20 appearances in which he scored 19 goals, in the following two Dumitru and Ionescu used him in 19 matches in which he netted seven times in the first and in 14 with five goals scored in the second and in the last one he played 23 games, scoring 15 times under the guidance of Angelo Niculescu.^{[1][2][3][5][6]} Ene also won the 1963–64 Cupa României with The Red Dogs, coach Ionescu using him all the minutes in the 5–3 victory over rivals Steaua București from the final.^[1][7] He would score two goals in the league in the derby with Steaua, including one in a 3–2 victory.^[8] He played in 11 European Cup matches in which he scored two goals in the 1965–66 campaign against Denmark's champion, Boldklubben 1909 which helped the team advance to the next phase where they were eliminated by the winners of the previous two seasons of the competition Inter Milan but earned a historical 2–1 victory in the first leg and also in the 1963–64 edition they got pass East Germany champion, Motor Jena, being eliminated in the next phase by Real Madrid.^{[1][2][3][5][9]}

Ene spent the last season of his career at Dinamo Bacău, making his last Divizia A appearance on 9 June 1968 in a 4–1 victory against Farul Constanța, having a total of 227 matches in which he scored 116 goals in the competition.^[1][2][3][5]

International career

Gheorghe Ene played three games at international level for Romania, making his debut under coach Gheorghe Popescu I on 15 June 1955 in a friendly which ended with a 4–1 loss in front of Sweden.^[10][11] His second game was a 1–1 with Yugoslavia at the 1958 World Cup qualifiers and his last appearance took part on 8 October 1961 in a friendly which ended with a 4–0 victory against Turkey.^[10]

Managerial career

Gheorghe Ene started coaching after he ended his playing career at Dinamo București's center of children and juniors, afterwards coaching senior teams Jiul Petroșani, Unirea Slobozia, Muscelul Câmpulung, CS Târgoviște and Corvinul Hunedoara, mostly in the Romanian lower leagues, having only short spells in Divizia A at Jiul and Corvinul.^{[2][3][5][12]}

Personal life

His brother, Daniel Ene was also a footballer who played for SC Bacău and Rapid București.^[13] Gheorghe Ene died on 6 April 2009 at age 72.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Honours

Club

Dinamo București

• Divizia A: 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65^[1]
• Cupa României: 1963–64^[14]

Individual

• Divizia A top scorer: 1958–59^[1]

Notes

1. The statistics for the 1957 unofficial championship called Cupa Primăverii are not taken into consideration.^[1]

References

1. Gheorghe Ene at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
2. "A murit Gheorghe Ene II" [Gheorghe Ene died II] (in Romanian). Evz.ro. 6 April 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
3. "A murit fostul atacant si antrenor Gheorghe Ene" [Former striker and coach Gheorghe Ene died] (in Romanian). Romaniansoccer.ro. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
4. "A murit Gheorghe Ene!" [Gheorghe Ene died!] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 6 April 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
5. "Gheorghe Ene II" (in Romanian). Dinamo.webstyler.ro. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
6. "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
7. "Romanian Cup – Season 1963–1964". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
   "Asta e prima finala Steaua - Dinamo din istorie! Omul care i-a inventat pe Lucescu si Dinu a umilit-o pe Steaua in fata a 70.000 de fani!" [This is the first Steaua - Dinamo final in history! The man who invented Lucescu and Dinu humiliated Steaua in front of 70,000 fans!] (in Romanian). Sport.ro. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
8. "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1963–64". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
   "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1965–66". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
9. "Gheorghe Ene - Champions League 1965/1966". WorldFootball. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
   "Gheorghe Ene - Champions League 1963/1964". WorldFootball. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
   "1 decembrie 1965, Ziua națională a "câinilor": cea în care au învins dubla campioană a Europei și a lumii" [December 1, 1965, the national day of the "dogs": the one in which they defeated the double champion of Europe and the world] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
10. "Gheorghe Ene". European Football. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
11. "Sweden 4-1 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
12. "Gheorghe Ene profile". Labtof. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
13. "Bacăul a ajuns în fața lui Arsenal" [Bacău ended up in front of Arsenal] (in Romanian). Welovesport.ro. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
14. Gheorghe Ene at National-Football-Teams.com

External links

• Gheorghe Ene at WorldFootball.net