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Petre Steinbach

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Petre Steinbach
Personal information
Date of birth (1906-01-01)January 1, 1906
Place of birth Temesvár, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 1996 (aged 89–90)
Place of death Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1925–1928 CAM Timișoara – (–)
1928–1929 Colțea Brașov – (–)
1929–1939 Unirea Tricolor București 90 (5)
1939–1940 Olympia București – (–)
International career
1930–1935[1] Romania 18 (0)
Managerial career
1934–1937 Unirea Tricolor București (player-coach)
1940 Venus București
1946–1947 Carmen București
1947–1948 ITA Arad
1948 Romania
1948–1952 Rapid București
1960 Romania U21
1963–1964 Farul Constanța
1968–1969 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
1969 ASA Târgu Mureș
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Petre Steinbach (January 1, 1906 in Timișoara, Romania – 1996 in Germany), was a Romanian football midfielder and manager.

Career

His career in club football was spent at CAM Timișoara between 1925 and 1928, also playing for Colțea Brașov in 1928–1929, then he moved to Unirea Tricolor București, where he spent 10 years, for a while as a player-coach.[2][3][4] Steinbach finished his playing career in the 1939–1940 season at Olympia București.[2] After World War II, Steinbach, because of his German origins was sent for a while to forced labour in the USSR, Joseph Stalin considering that German people doing forced labour was a way for the Germans to pay "war reparations".[3][4] In 1947 he became coach at ITA Arad, helping the team win the second title in the club's history.[3][4] Steinbach was also a writer, he wrote two volumes about football:[3][4]

  • Fotbalul nostru (Our football) (1937)
  • Fotbalul se joacă râzând (Football is played with laughter) (1972)

International career

Petre Steinbach played 18 games at international level for Romania, making his debut under coach Constantin Rădulescu in a 5–3 away loss against Bulgaria at the 1929–31 Balkan Cup, a tournament in which he also played in the rematch, which ended with a 5–2 victory, in a 4–2 away victory against Yugoslavia and in a 4–2 away victory against Greece, helping Romania win the competition.[1][5] He was also part of Romania's squad at the first World Cup, the 1930 edition.[3] Steinbach played three games at the three games at the 1932 Balkan Cup.[1] He also played three games at the 1931–1934 Central European Cup for Amateurs and two at the 1933 Balkan Cup, both tournaments being won by Romania.[1]

Honours

Player

Unirea Tricolor București

Romania

Manager

Unirea Tricolor București

ITA Arad

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Petre Steinbach". European Football. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b Petre Steinbach at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  3. ^ a b c d e "Din istoria sportului românesc-Povestea lui Petre Steinbach, fotbalistul-scriitor deportat în URSS" [From the history of Romanian sport-The story of Petre Steinbach, the football player-writer deported to the USSR] (in Romanian). Independentaromana.ro. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Cum ar trebui să se poarte un fotbalist:construirea unui "atlet-gentleman"" [How a footballer should behave: The construction of a "athlete-gentleman"] (in Romanian). Historia.ro. 9 July 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Bulgaria 5-3 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Balkan Cup 1929–31". European Football. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Balkan Cup 1933". European Football. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  8. ^ "1931–1934 Central European Cup for Amateurs". European Football. Retrieved 30 May 2021.


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