Ioan Andone

Ioan Andone

Andone during the late 1980s
Personal information
Full name	Ioan Andone
Date of birth	15 March 1960 (1960-03-15)
Place of birth	Spălanca, Romania
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Centre-back
Youth career
1972–1979	Corvinul Hunedoara
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1979–1983	Corvinul Hunedoara	105	(15)
1983–1990	Dinamo Bucureşti	171	(22)
1990–1991	Elche	34	(3)
1991–1993	Heerenveen	39	(4)
Total		349	(44)
National team
1981–1990	Romania	55	(2)
Teams managed
1993–1994	Sportul Studenţesc
1994–1995	Universitatea Cluj
1996	Sportul Studenţesc
1996–1997	Petrolul Ploieşti
1998–1999	Farul Constanţa
1999–2000	FC Braşov
2000–2001	FC Bihor Oradea
2001–2003	Sportul Studenţesc
2003–2005	Dinamo Bucureşti
2005–2007	Omonia Nicosia
2007–2008	CFR Cluj
2008–2009	Al-Ettifaq
2009	Al-Ahli
2010	CSKA Sofia
2010	Rapid Bucureşti
2010–2011	Dinamo Bucureşti
Honours Competitor for Romania Bronze FIFA U-20 World Cup 1981
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Ioan Andone (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈo̯an anˈdone]; born 15 March 1960) is a Romanian football coach and former player.

Career

He made his Divizia A debut with Corvinul Hunedoara in 1979. He later went to Dinamo Bucureşti where he helped win the league title in 1984 and 1990 and the cup title in 1984, 1986 and 1990. In 1990 he was bought by Spanish team Elche for 125.000 $. Then he went on to play two seasons in the Netherlands for SC Heerenveen til 1993 where he finished his playing career.

International career

Andone was capped 55 times and scored 2 goals for the national team, and represented his country at the 1990 World Cup.

Coaching career

After retiring as a player, Andone started coaching Sportul Studenţesc. He later coached U Cluj for two years, Sportul Studenţesc for a second period, Petrolul Ploieşti, FC Farul Constanţa, FC Braşov, FC Bihor Oradea and Sportul Studenţesc for a third time. In 2003 he took over Dinamo Bucureşti, and led them to one league championship and three consecutive cup titles. In December 2005 he took over Cypriot club Omonia Nicosia and stayed there until January 2007.

In 2008 won Liga I and Romanian Cup with CFR Cluj in an astonishing performance for a team which played six years before in the third league.

After that he was coaching Al-Ettifaq Club of Saudi Arabia. On 8 June 2009 he started coaching Al Ahli club (Dubai). In the beginning of October 2009, after Dinamo Bucureşti sacked Italian coach Dario Bonetti, Andone was offered the position of general manager. Although he stated that he would have wanted to train Dinamo Bucureşti again, he could not fulfill his wish because Al-Ahli Dubai's officials asked him to respect his contract and denied his permission to leave the club from UAE. On 5 November 2009 the Romanian manager, leaves the bench of Al Ahli, the new manager is Mahdi Ali. On 17 January 2010, he signed a year and a half contract with CSKA Sofia and just two months later, on 30 March 2010, announced his resignation. On 1 April 2010 Rapid Bucureşti officials appointed the former CSKA Sofia Coach to replace Nicolae Manea until the end of the season 2010.

External links

• RomanianSoccer.ro - Profile
• Career statistics
• BDFutbol data