10 Facts About Ioan Andone

Ioan Andone, nicknamed "Falcosul" was born on 15 March 1960 in Spalnaca and when he was 14 years old he played basketball and football simultaneously, Carol Gal being his first football coach at Scoala Sportiva Hunedoara, after which at 16 he decided to concentrate exclusively on his football career when he went at Corvinul Hunedoara's youth center where he was coached by Dumitru Patrascu.

Ioan Andone then went on to play for the last two seasons of his career in the Netherlands under head coach Fritz Korbach at Heerenveen in the Eerste Divisie, where he was teammate with Rodion Camataru, appearing in 39 league games in which he scored 4 goals.

Ioan Andone gained throughout his career a total of 255 Divizia A appearances with 35 goals scored and a total of 29 matches with three goals scored in European competitions.

Ioan Andone played one game at the 1986 World Cup qualifiers, one at the Euro 1988 qualifiers and four at the successful 1990 World Cup qualifiers, being used by coach Emerich Jenei in all the minutes of the four matches from the final tournament, as Romania got eliminated by Ireland in the eight-finals.

Ioan Andone was part of Romania's U20 squad at the 1981 World Youth Championship from Australia, appearing in five games, helping the team finish the tournament on the third position, winning the bronze medal.

Ioan Andone started his coaching career in 1993 at Sportul Studentesc, a team he would coach on other three occasions.

Ioan Andone coached Universitatea Cluj, Petrolul Ploiesti, Farul Constanta, FC Brasov and Bihor Oradea before arriving in March 2003 at Dinamo Bucuresti, a team with whom he won the first trophies of his coaching career consisting of a Divizia A title, three Cupa Romaniei and one Supercupa Romaniei, he would go on to have two more spells at Dinamo but without winning any trophies.