Nicolae Oaidă

Nicolae Oaidă

Oaidă în the 1960s
Personal information
Date of birth	(1933-04-09)9 April 1933[1]
Place of birth	Bod, Brașov, Romania[1]
Date of death	18 January 2025(2025-01-18) (aged 91)
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s)	Striker[1][2]
Youth career
1946–1950	Steagul Roșu Brașov
1950–1953	Locomotiva Brașov
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954	Dinamo Brașov	4	(0)
1955–1956	Dinamo Bacău	42	(12)
1957–1969	Progresul București[b]	226	(77)
Total		272	(89)
International career
1958–1961	Romania[a]	7	(1)
Managerial career
1969–1970	Flacăra Roșie București
1971–1972	Libya[4][5]
1972–1974	Al-Ahly Benghazi
1974	Mureșul Deva
1975–1976	Viitorul Vaslui
1977–1978	Progresul București
1978–1979	Tractorul Brașov
1979	Jiul Petroșani
1981–1982	Autobuzul București
1989–1990	Hassania Agadir
1991–1992	Homenetmen Beirut
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nicolae Oaidă (9 April 1933 – 18 January 2025) was a Romanian footballer and manager.[1][4][5]

Club career

Oaidă was born in Bod, Brașov on 9 April 1933 and started playing football in 1946 at the youth center of local club, Steagul Roșu, later in 1950 moving to neighboring club, Locomotiva.[1] He made his Divizia A debut on 16 May 1954 playing for Dinamo Brașov in a 3–0 loss in front of Locomotiva Timișoara.[1] After one season at Dinamo Brașov, Oaidă went to play for two seasons at Dinamo Bacău, managing to help the team earn a promotion to the first league in his first season spent there.[1] In 1957 he went to play for Progresul București, his first performance being the reaching of the 1957–58 Cupa României, being used all the minutes by coach Ioan Lupaș all the minutes in the 1–0 loss in front of Știința Timișoara.[1][6] In the following season he scored a personal record of 14 goals.[1] Under the guidance of coach Augustin Botescu, Oaidă opened the score in the 2–0 victory against Dinamo Obor București in the 1960 Cupa României final, which helped Progresul win the first trophy in the club's history.[1][7][8] During his 12 seasons spent at the club, Progresul's best finish was a third place in the 1961–62 season but also suffered a relegation in the 1964–65 season but he stayed with the club, helping it promote back to the first league after one season.[1] Oaidă's last Divizia A appearance took place on 15 June 1969, playing Progresul in a 1–0 loss with Farul Constanța, having a total of 236 matches played and 79 goals scored in the competition, also making two appearances for Progresul in the preliminary round of the 1961–62 European Cup Winners' Cup as the team got eliminated by Leixões after a 2–1 aggregate loss.[1][9]

International career

Oaidă played six games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 14 September 1958 under coach Augustin Botescu in a 3–2 away loss in front of East Germany.[3][10] He played in the two games against Turkey at the Euro 1960 qualifiers, in the first match he opened the score in a 3–0 home victory in Bucharest on the 23 August Stadium.[3][11] He also appeared once for Romania's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Olympics qualifiers.[3]

Personal life and death

In 2008 Oaidă received the title of honorary president of Progresul București, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, in recognition of his entire activity at the club from Cotroceni.[4][7][12]

Oaidă died on 18 January 2025, at the age of 91.[13][14]

Career statistics

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Oaidă goal.

List of international goals scored by Nicolae Oaidă[3]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	2 November 1958	Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest, Romania	Turkey	1–0	3–0	1960 European Nations' Cup qualifying

Honours

Player

Dinamo Bacău

• Divizia B: 1955[1]

Progresul București

• Divizia B: 1965–66[1]
• Cupa României: 1959–60, runner-up 1957–58[1][6][8]

Notes

1. Including one appearance for Romania's Olympic team[3]
2. The 1957 championship called Cupa Primăverii is unofficial, so the appearances and goals scored at that competition for Progresul București are not official.[1]

References

1. Nicolae Oaidă at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
2. Nicolae Oaidă at National-Football-Teams.com
3. "Nicolae Oaidă". European Football. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
4. "Nicolae Oaida, presedinte de onoare la Progresul" [Nicolae Oaida, honorary president at Progresul]. Romaniansoccer.ro (in Romanian). 18 April 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
5. "Românii care au antrenat echipe naționale din străinătate înainte de '90" [Romanians who coached national teams from abroad before the 90's]. Theplaymaker.ro (in Romanian). 11 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
6. "Romanian Cup – Season 1957–1958". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
7. "Nicolae Oaidă: "Dane, fii mai calm!"" [Nicolae Oaidă: "Dan, stay calmer!"]. Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). Ringier Sportal S.R.L. 17 April 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
8. "Romanian Cup – Season 1959–1960". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
9. "Nicolae Oaidă. Cup Winners Cup 1961/1962". WorldFootball. Heim: Spiel. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
10. "East Germany 2–2 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
11. "Romania 3–0 Turkey". European Football. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
12. "Dan Petrescu a participat la aniversarea lui Nicolae Oaidă" [Dan Petrescu participated at Nicolae Oaidă's anniversary]. ProSport (in Romanian). PubliMedia International. 18 April 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
13. "A murit Nicolae Oaidă, fost internațional și câștigător al Cupei României" [Nicolae Oaidă, former international and winner of the Romanian Cup, died]. Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). Ringier Sportal S.R.L. 18 January 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
14. "S-a stins din viață fostul internațional Nicolae Oaidă" [Former international Nicolae Oaidă passed away] (in Romanian). Romanian Football Federation. 18 January 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2025.

External links

• Nicolae Oaidă at WorldFootball.net
• Nicolae Oaidă at Labtof.ro (in Romanian)