Bogdan Stelea

Bogdan Stelea

Stelea in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Bogdan Gheorghe Stelea
Date of birth	(1967-12-05) 5 December 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1980–1986	Dinamo București
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1991	Dinamo București	98	(0)
1987	→ Politehnica Iași (loan)[1]	0	(0)
1992–1993	Mallorca	52	(0)
1993	Standard Liège	3	(0)
1994	Rapid București	13	(0)
1994–1995	Samsunspor	31	(0)
1995–1997	Steaua București	47	(0)
1997–2004	Salamanca	183	(0)
2002	→ Rapid București (loan)	10	(0)
2004–2005	Dinamo București	13	(0)
2005	Akratitos	14	(0)
2006	Oțelul Galați	0	(0)
2006–2008	Unirea Urziceni	37	(0)
2008–2009	FC Brașov	23	(0)
Total		524	(0)
International career
1988–2005	Romania	91	(0)
Managerial career
2009–2011	Romania (assistant)
2012	Astra Ploiești
2013–2014	Romania U21
2014	Viitorul Constanța
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bogdan Gheorghe Stelea (Romanian pronunciation: [boɡˈdan ˈstele̯a]; born 5 December 1967) is a former Romanian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Having played professionally into his 40s, he played for all three major Liga I clubs in his country's capital, and also spent a vast part of his career in Spain, mainly with Salamanca, also Stelea played nearly 100 times for Romania, and represented the nation in three World Cups and two European Championships.^[2][3]

Club career

Bogdan Stelea was born in Bucharest on 5 December 1967 and he started to play football at the age of 12 when he was brought by boxing coach, Dumitru Ion at the youth center of Dinamo București where he worked with Iosif Varga, also during his youth years he was teammate with future national team competitor, Florin Prunea.^{[1][4][5][6][7]} He made his Liga I debut on 20 November 1986 under coach Mircea Lucescu in a 2–0 victory against Oțelul Galați but shortly afterwards he was sent on loan for the second half of the season at Politehnica Iași where he did not made any appearances.^{[1][2][4][6][8]} Stelea returned under Lucescu's command at Dinamo, being the first choice for the goalkeeper position since 1988, replacing Dumitru Moraru and his first performance with the team was reaching the quarter-finals of the 1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup where they were eliminated on the away goals rule after 1–1 on aggregate by Sampdoria, conceding only two goals in six games, keeping four clean sheets.^[1][4][6][9] In the following season he helped the club win The Double and appeared in eight matches from the 1989–90 European Cup Winners' Cup campaign when the team reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated after 2–0 on aggregate by Anderlecht, conceding five goals and keeping three clean sheets.^{[1][2][3][4][5][10][11]} While he was in a cantonment before a game from the 1990–91 European Cup against Porto, Stelea was nicknamed Arnold by Corneliu Vadim Tudor who visited them because his haircut looked similar to the one of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the movie Red Heat.^[2][4][12] In the 1991–92 season he was used by coach Florin Halagian in 11 Liga I games as the capital side won the national championship and eliminated with a 2–1 victory on aggregate Luis Figo's Sporting Lisbon in the UEFA Cup, but was transferred late in 1991 to Mallorca for €300.000.^{[3][4][5][10][13][14]} After two seasons in Spain, with relegation in his first, he joined Belgium's Standard Liège where he was teammate with fellow Romanian, Mircea Rednic but because he did not play much and risked not being selected to be part of Romania's 1994 World Cup squad, he quickly returned home to play for a half of year at Rapid București.^{[2][3][4][5][15]} After he participated at the 1994 World Cup, Stelea went to play for one year in Turkey at Samsunspor along compatriots Marius Cheregi and Daniel Timofte, being brought there by coach Gheorghe Mulțescu as first choice goalkeeper.^{[2][3][4][5][16]} Afterwards, Stelea returned again to his country and joined Steaua București, where in his two-year spell at the club, under the guidance of coach Dumitru Dumitriu he helped it renew its domestic supremacy by contributing significantly to the winning of The Double in both seasons and he played 11 games in the Champions League group stage over the course of the two seasons, also he kept a clean sheet in the victory from the 1995 Supercupa României in front of Petrolul Ploiești and during this period he also had a successful trial with Sunderland, but could not negotiate a deal.^{[2][3][4][5][10][17]} In 1997, Stelea was transferred to UD Salamanca for €900.000, where he lived his most steady period, remaining with the team seven years, only punctuated by a small loan spell with Rapid in which he was used by coach Mircea Rednic in the 2–1 victory against Dinamo from the 2002 Cupa României Final, he appeared in 191 overall games for Los Charros during his tenure whilst competing mainly in the second division, but spent his first two seasons in the top flight, also he was colleague with fellow Romanians Cătălin Munteanu, Lucian Marinescu, Ovidiu Stîngă and Gabriel Popescu which gave the club the nickname "Salamanca Rumana".^{[2][3][4][5][18]} In 2004, Stelea returned at Dinamo, helping the club win the 2004–05 Cupa României, being used by coach Ioan Andone in the final where he kept a clean sheet in the victory in front of Farul Constanța.^{[2][3][4][5][19]} In 2005 he was brought in Greece at Akratitos together with Lucian Marinescu by his former national team colleague Ilie Dumitrescu who was coach.^{[3][4][5][20]} In 2006, Stelea went back to Romania, signing with Oțelul Galați where he spent half of season, but did not feature in any matches because of a serious injury.^{[2][3][4][5][21]} The following campaign he moved to Unirea Urziceni for two seasons, being coached by his former national team colleague Dan Petrescu, but only in the second season he became first choice.^{[2][3][4][5][22]} Bogdan Stelea finally ended his 23-year long career at age 41 by the end of the 2008–09 season, playing 23 matches under coach Răzvan Lucescu at FC Brașov.^{[2][3][4][5][23]}

International career

Bogdan Stelea played 91 games in which he conceded 72 goals at international level for Romania, making his debut on 23 November 1988 when coach Emerich Jenei sent him on the field to replace Silviu Lung for the last 20 minutes of a 3–0 victory in a friendly against Israel.^[6][24][25] His second game was a 1–0 victory against Bulgaria at the successful 1990 World Cup qualifiers, being selected by coach Jenei to be part of the squad that went at the final tournament, however he was not used in any games.^[3][24] He played one game at the Euro 1992 qualifiers, made 6 appearances at the successful 1994 World Cup qualifiers, being part of the "Golden Generation" that reached the quarter-finals of the final tournament, but he was used by coach Anghel Iordănescu in only two games from the group stage, a 3–1 victory against Colombia and a 4–1 loss against Switzerland, as Florin Prunea was chosen to play in the other three games of the campaign.^[5][24][26] He played 10 games at the successful Euro 1996 qualifiers, being used by Iordănescu in two 1–0 losses against France and Bulgaria as Romania did not pass the group of the final tournament.^[24] He played eight games at the successful 1998 World Cup qualifiers, being used by Iordănescu in all the minutes of the four games from the final tournament as the team reached the sixteenths-finals where they were eliminated after a 1–0 loss in front of Croatia and went on to play seven games at the successful Euro 2000 qualifiers, being used by coach Jenei in all the minutes of the four games from the final tournament as they reached the quarter-finals where they were defeated with 2–0 by Italy.^[24] In his final years of activity at the national team, Stelea went on to play seven games at the 2002 World Cup qualifiers including appearing in the lost play-off against Slovenia, made one appearance at the Euro 2004 qualifiers in a 3–0 victory against Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was the team's captain for the first and only time in his career in a 1–1 with Armenia in which he had a very appreciated evolution and made his final appearance on 9 February 2005 in a friendly which ended 2–2 in front of Slovakia.^[5][24][27]

For representing his country during 1990–2000 at the World and European Cups final tournaments, Stelea was decorated by President of Romania Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.^[28]

Controversy

On 3 June 1998, during a friendly against Paraguay, played on the Ghencea stadium, Stelea was booed by the fans after he conceded a goal by Roberto Acuña and in response he made some obscene gestures towards them, later he said that he did that because he had a moment of weakness as his child was in the hospital, being very sick at that moment.^[5][29] In 2001, he had a fight with the striker Ionel Ganea in a training session that took part before a Romania – Italy game.^[30]

Managerial career

Bogdan Stelea started his coaching career in 2009, shortly after he retired when he worked as an assistant at Romania's national team of Răzvan Lucescu, his coach from the last club he played for, FC Brașov.^[23][31] On 6 June 2012, Stelea became head coach of Astra Ploiești, however two months later after a home draw against CS Turnu Severin, he was sacked and replaced with Gheorghe Mulțescu.^[32][33] Afterwards he went to coach for a year Romania's under-21 national team from 2013 until 2014.^[32][34] In June 2014, Stelea accepted an offer from his former national team colleague, Gheorghe Hagi to coach his club Viitorul Constanța but resigned after not obtaining any victory in the first four rounds of the season.^[32][35]

Personal life

His son, Bogdan Ionuț Stelea was also a footballer, he played as a defender and spent his career in the lower leagues of Romania playing for teams like FC Snagov or Chindia Târgoviște.^[36]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[4]^[37]

Club	Season	League			National cup[a]		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dinamo București	1986–87	Divizia A	1	0			0	0	1	0
	1987–88		9	0			0	0	9	0
	1988–89		29	0	1	0	6	0	36	0
	1989–90		22	0	1	0	8	0	31	0
	1990–91		26	0			4	0	30	0
	1991–92		11	0			4	0	15	0
	Total		98	0	2	0	22	0	122	0
Politehnica Iași (loan)	1986–87	Divizia B	0	0			0	0	0	0
Mallorca	1991–92	La Liga	27	0	0	0	–		27	0
	1992–93	Segunda División	25	0	4	0	–		29	0
	1993–94		0	0	1	0	–		0	0
	Total		52	0	5	0	–		57	0
Standard Liège	1993–94	Belgian First Division	3	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
Rapid București (loan)	1993–94	Divizia A	13	0	–		–		13	0
Samsunspor	1994–95	1.Lig	31	0	5	0	–		36	0
Steaua București	1995–96	Divizia A	25	0	1	0	8	0	34	0
	1996–97		22	0	1	0	5	0	28	0
	Total		47	0	2	0	13	0	62	0
Salamanca	1997–98	La Liga	30	0	2	0	–		32	0
	1998–99		33	0	2	0	–		35	0
	1999–00	Segunda División	28	0	0	0	–		28	0
	2000–01		14	0	4	0	–		18	0
	2001–02		4	0	0	0	–		4	0
	2002–03		36	0	0	0	–		36	0
	2003–04		38	0	0	0	–		38	0
	Total		183	0	8	0	–		191	0
Rapid București (loan)	2001–02	Divizia A	10	0	1	0	–		11	0
Dinamo București	2004–05	Divizia A	13	0	5	0	0	0	18	0
Akratitos	2005–06	Alpha Ethniki	14	0	2	0	–		16	0
Oțelul Galați	2005–06	Divizia A	0	0	–		–		0	0
Unirea Urziceni	2006–07	Liga I	9	0	1	0	–		10	0
	2007–08		28	0	4	0	–		32	0
	Total		37	0	5	0	–		42	0
FC Brașov	2008–09	Liga I	23	0	1	0	–		24	0
Career total			524	0	37	0	35	0	596	0

1. Includes Cupa României, Copa del Rey, Belgian Cup, Turkish Cup, Greek Cup.

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[24]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Romania	1988	1	0
	1989	1	0
	1990	4	0
	1991	1	0
	1992	6	0
	1993	1	0
	1994	11	0
	1995	6	0
	1996	6	0
	1997	7	0
	1998	12	0
	1999	7	0
	2000	9	0
	2001	8	0
	2002	4	0
	2003	2	0
	2004	4	0
	2005	1	0
Total		91	0

Honours

Dinamo București

• Divizia A: 1989–90, 1991–92^[4]
• Cupa României: 1989–90, 2004–05^[4]

Standard Liège

• Belgian Super Cup runner-up: 1993^[4]

Steaua București

• Divizia A: 1995–96, 1996–97^[4]
• Cupa României: 1995–96, 1996–97^[4]
• Supercupa României: 1995^[4]

Rapid București

• Cupa României: 2001–02^[4]

Unirea Urziceni

• Cupa României runner-up: 2007–08^[4]

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    "Motivul pentru care Corneliu Vadim Tudor l-a poreclit "Arnold" pe Bogdan Stelea: "Mie asa imi placea"" [The reason why Corneliu Vadim Tudor nicknamed Bogdan Stelea "Arnold": "I liked it that way"] (in Romanian). Sport.ro. 4 April 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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    "Explicațiile unui gest la aproape 20 de ani distanță. Bogdan Stelea, despre motivele care l-au împins să arate semne obscene în Ghencea: "Am cedat pentru că am fost provocat!"" [The explanations of a gesture almost 20 years apart. Bogdan Stelea, about the reasons that pushed him to show obscene signs in Ghencea: "I gave in because I was provoked!"] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "24 de ani de când Stelea le arăta degetele mijlocii spectatorilor, iar Hagi cerea statuie. În 2015, când i s-a făcut un bust, "Regele" declara: "Eu sunt legendă, nu statuie! V-am făcut fericiți"" [24 years since Stelea showed the middle fingers to the spectators, and Hagi asked for a statue. In 2015, when a bust was made of him, "The King" declared: "I'm a legend, not a statue! I made you happy"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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33. ""Mister" Stelea şi-a ales secundul la Astra din două încercări" ["Mister" Stelea successfully chose his assistant at Astra from two tries] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 6 June 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "INCREDIBIL! CIRC în Liga I! Stelea, demis în direct la TV: "Mulţescu e noul antrenor!"" [INCREDIBLE! CIRCUS in Liga I! Stelea fired live on TV: "Mulţescu is the new manager"] (in Romanian). ProSport. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
34. "Bogdan Stelea va fi numit selecționer la naționala de tineret. Săndoi a demisionat" [Bogdan Stelea will be appointed as the national youth coach. Sandoi resigned] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "FRF i-a acceptat demisia lui Stelea de la naţionala de tineret" [FRF accepted Stelea's resignation from the national youth team] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 19 June 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
35. "Stelea, în fața provocării carierei: "Chiar dacă suntem o echipă tânără, lumea va aștepta rezultate"" [Stelea, facing the career challenge: "Even if we are a young team, the world will expect results"] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 28 June 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Stelea a demisionat de la Viitorul. Al treilea antrenor din Liga 1 plecat în 4 etape!" [Stelea resigned from Viitorul. The third coach in Liga 1 left in 4 stages!] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Bogdan Stelea – antrenor principal" [Bogdan Stelea – head coach] (in Romanian). Academia Hagi. 27 June 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
36. "Bogdan Stelea jr, pe urmele tatălui" [Bogdan Stelea jr, following the footsteps of his father] (in Romanian). libertatea.ro. 16 October 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
    "Bogdan Ionuț Stelea profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
37. Bogdan Stelea at BDFutbol
    Bogdan Stelea at WorldFootball.net
    "Bogdan Stelea's 2004–05 Romanian Cup appearances". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Bogdan Stelea's 2006–07 Romanian Cup appearance". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Bogdan Stelea's 2007–08 Romanian Cup appearances". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Bogdan Stelea's 2008–09 Romanian Cup appearance". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 26 January 2023.

External links

• Bogdan Stelea at WorldFootball.net
• Bogdan Stelea at National-Football-Teams.com
• Bogdan Stelea at Soccerway
• Bogdan Stelea – FIFA competition record (archived)