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'''Virgil Popescu''', also known as '''Stanislav Popesku''' in former [[Yugoslavia]] (born 1916) was a [[Romania]]n [[Association football|footballer]] and later coach.
'''Virgil Popescu''', also known as '''Stanislav Popesku''', (born 1916) was a [[Romania]]n [[Association football|footballer]] and later coach.


==Career==
==Career==

Revision as of 20:48, 6 September 2015

Virgil Popescu
Personal information
Date of birth 1916
Place of birth Zlatna, Austro-Hungary
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1941 Vojvodina
1943–1944 Juventus Bucharest 7 (0)
1945–1948 Partizan Belgrade 17 (0)
Managerial career
1963–1964 Rijeka
1964–1965 Legia Warsaw
1965–1966 Partizan (assistant)
1966–1967 Sankt Gallen
1968–1970 Morocco Olympic
1970 Wormatia Worms
1970–1972 KAC Kénitra
1972–1973 JSK Kabylie
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Virgil Popescu, also known as Stanislav Popesku, (born 1916) was a Romanian footballer and later coach.

Career

He was born in 1916 during the First World War, in the Transylvanian town of Zlatna,[1] back then within Austro-Hungary, nowadays in Romania. In 1918, at the end of the war, his parents moved to the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed Yugoslavia. He began playing for Novi Sad club FK Vojvodina and was part of Vojvodina's so called Millionaires team at the beginning of the 1940s.[2] He played with Vojvodina in the Novi Sad subassociation league in the 1938–39 season [3] and then in the Serbian League between 1939 and 1941.[4][5]

The Second World War started in Yugoslavia in 1941. Popescu was at the time attending the Commercial Academy in Belgrade, and by April 6, 1941, he was a second lieutenant defending the country against German forces.[1] It took four days, on April 10, when he was captured by Axis forces near Belgrade and taken to Romania to a concentration camp in Turnu Măgurele.[1] After spending two years in the camp, in 1943 he caught the attention of Juventus Bucharest boss Cezar Popescu who got the news that this 27-year-old defender who had played in Serbia was in the camp 8.[1] By explaining how Virgil Popescu was a Romanian and as such a German ally, he managed to release him from the camp and brought him to the team.[1] He made his debut for Bucharest side Juventus on October 6, in match against Craiova. He made 7 appearances for Juventus in the 1943–44 Romanian Divizia A.[6] However, not very long afterwards he entered in the club offices and said that he had to leave to fight along Yugoslav Partisans and Marshall Tito in freeing Yugoslavia, and club officials accepted his will, so he returned to Yugoslavia and joined the resistance.[1]

He fought the Germans, and at the end of the war, in 1945, he was among the founders of Belgrade-based FK Partizan which will become one of the major powers of Yugoslav football.[7] His passion for Serbia was such that he adopted a Serbian name, Stanislav.[1] He played with Partizan in the Yugoslav First League for two seasons. He played a total of 65 matches and scored once for Partizan, of which 17 matches were in the league.[8] Earlier, he played with SAP Vojvodina in the 1945 Yugoslav Football Tournament.[9] With Partizan he won the first Yugoslav post-WWII championship.

He later became a coach.[10] He coached Miroslav Blažević at NK Rijeka in the Yugoslav First League[11] and he was the assistant manager of Abdulah Gegić at Partizan when they reached the 1966 European Cup Final.[12] He also coached Polish side Legia Warsaw in the season 1964–65.[13] Popescu then managed Swiss team St. Gallen and Wormatia Worms in Germany[14] before moving to Morocco and Algeria to help develop football in those countries, there he coached the Moroccan Olympic side and KAC Kénitra.[15] In the 1972–73 season, he was at the helm of Algerian side JS Kabylie, with whom he won the championship.[16]

Honours

Player

Vojvodina
Partizan

Manager

Legia Warsaw
JS Kabylie

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Popescu, românul care a fondat Partizan Belgrad, by Catalin Oprisan taken from Gazeta Sporturilor, 27-2-2011, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Ro icon
  2. ^ Na današnji dan - Velika pobeda nad Segedom at fkvojvodina.com, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Sr icon
  3. ^ 1938/39 FK Vojvodina season at fkvojvodina.com
  4. ^ 1940/41 FK Vojvodina season at fkvojvodina.com
  5. ^ 1939/40 FK Vojvodina season at fkvojvodina.com
  6. ^ Povestea lui Virgil Popescu, romanul de la Legia, prietenul lui Flamaropol si Oana! at A1.ro, 9-8-2013, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Ro icon
  7. ^ Istorija kluba FK Partizan at partizan.rs, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Sr icon
  8. ^ FK Partizan all-time players, Popesku #819 at FK Partizan official website, retrieved 3-1-2014
  9. ^ 1945 Yugoslav season at Ligaški vremeplov, at hrsport.net
  10. ^ Pamtim naslov: "Konac delo – Karasi" at Politika, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Sr icon
  11. ^ 1963/64 NK Rijeka season at HNK Rijeka official website, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Hr icon
  12. ^ Beše to jedne majske noći na Hejselu at FK Partizan official website, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Sr icon
  13. ^ Trenerzy Legii Warszawa at Legia Warsaw official website, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Pl icon
  14. ^ Trainers Wormatia Worms at wormatia.de, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:De icon
  15. ^ Entraîneurs KAC de Kénitra at Kacfoot.ma, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Fr icon
  16. ^ Championne d'Algérie at carfootal.dz, retrieved 3-1-2014 Template:Fr icon

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