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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 21 November 1896[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania[2] | ||
| Date of death | 6 July 1978 (aged 81)[3] | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1923–1927 | Pepiniera Istrița / Vârtejul Buzău | ||
| 1927–1928 | Unirea Tricolor București | ||
| 1928–1930 | Gloria CFR Arad | ||
| 1933–1934 | Acvila Giurgiu | ||
| 1939–1940 | Romania | ||
| 1941–1942 | Romania | ||
| 1946 | Romania | ||
Virgil Economu (21 November 1896 – 6 July 1978) was a Romanian rugby player, football manager, journalist and a writer.[2][4]
Life and career
Economu was born on 21 November 1896 in Bucharest, Romania, of half-Jewish descent on his mother's side.[2] He spent his high school years in Vienna, and graduated from the University of Agronomy at Montpellier, where he also played rugby for the local team.[2][4] In 1923 he founded the first school of football referees from Romania and started his coaching career.[2][4] In the 1930s he was the deputy minister of Agronomy in Romania and he also worked in the press, being the director of the "Sportul Capitalei" newspaper, the head of the sports section from "Curentul" and a sports announcer.[2][4] In 1937 Economu was hired as technical director at Romania's national team, and in 1938 he founded the first coaching school from Romania, while in 1939 he was named head coach of the national team.[2][4] In 1940, Romania had to play a friendly in Frankfurt against Germany but Economu did not receive an entrance visa because of his Jewish origin.[2] Consequently, Romania's Football Federation president Gabriel Marinescu wrote a letter to Wilhelm Fabricius who was Adolf Hitler's minister from Bucharest, in which he asked him to give Economu an entrance visa, claiming he is of ethnic Romanian origin.[2] Economu received the visa and the game ended with a 9–3 victory for Germany.[2][5] He also suffered discrimination in Romania due to his heritage, being fired in October 1940 from his post as General Inspector at the Center for the Capitalization of Wheat.[2] Subsequently, in December 1941 his name disappeared from the army records, where he was listed as a lieutenant in reserve, a decision published in Romania's Official Gazette.[2] In 1945, he was actively involved in the reorganization of the Romanian Football Federation and the establishment of the "Sportul Popular" newspaper.[4] From 1946 until 1947 he was the Romanian Football Federation's president and named himself as head coach of the national team, leading it at the 1946 Balkan Cup.[2][3][4][6] In his three spells as Romania's coach, Economu accumulated a total of 14 games (4 victories, 3 draws, 7 losses).[3] From 1953 until 1957 he was technical director at CCA București.[2][4] Between 1962 and 1966 he held the position of coordinating director at "23 August", which was the first center for children and juniors in Romania.[2][4] Since 1967 until 1968, Economu was Ilie Savu's counselor at Steaua București and between 1967 and 1974 he worked again for the Romanian Football Federation.[2][4]
Writing
Economu wrote a total of six volumes, all of which were about football:[4][7]
- Fotbal – studiu documentar și critic (Football – documentary and critical study) (1935)
- Fotbal – contribuții la studiul unei metode unitare de joc, cu aplicații la echipa C.C.A. (Football – contributions to the study of a unitary method of play, with applications to the C.C.A. team) (1958)
- Fotbal – probleme de tactică în jocul modern (Football – tactical problems in the modern game) (1964)
- Sistemul de patru fundași (The four-defender system) (1965)
- Fotbalul modern simplificat și 400 de întrebari și raspunsuri (Simplified modern football and 400 questions and answers) (1972)
- Fotbal de la Mexico la Munchen (Football from Mexico to Munich) (1972)
Death
He died on 6 July 1978 at the age of 81.[3]
Honours
Manager
Gloria CFR Arad
References
- ^ Virgil Economu at WorldFootball.net
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Documente găsite de Gazetă la Arhivele Naţionale reconstituie povestea agitată a lui Virgil Economu, selecţionerul ziarist: Agronomul" [Documents found by Gazeta at the National Archives reconstruct the hectic story of Virgil Economu, the journalist's selector: The agronomist] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Virgil Economu". European Football. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Agronomul" [The agronomist] (in Romanian). Fcsteaua.ro. 15 December 2006. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ "Germany – Romania 9:3". European Football. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ "FRF Presidents". frf.ro. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013.
- ^ "Carti Virgil Economu" [Books Virgil Economu] (in Romanian). Targulcartii.ro. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
External links
- Virgil Economu manager profile at EU-Football.info