Marin Tufan

Marin Tufan (born 16 October 1942) is a Romanian former football player who played as a striker, spending most of his career playing for Farul Constanța.[2][3]

Marin Tufan
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-10-16) 16 October 1942
Place of birth Istria, Constanța, Romania
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Cimentul Medgidia
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1963 Cimentul Medgidia
1963–1973 Farul Constanța 230 (62)
1973–1977 SC Tulcea 62 (17)
Total 292 (79)
International career
1967 Romania B[1] 1 (0)
1969–1970 Romania 2 (0)
Managerial career
1977–1978 Granitul Babadag
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 July 2018

Club career

Marin Tufan was born on 16 October 1942 in Istria, Constanța, Romania, growing up in Sinoe, starting to play football at age 18 as a junior at Cimentul Medgidia where his first coach was Kostas Choumis.[2][3][4] Shortly after he started to play at the senior squad of Cimentul in Divizia C, being noticed in a friendly against Farul Constanța by the opponents team's coach, Petre Steinbach, who brought him to the club, giving him his Divizia A debut on 15 September 1963 in the last 20 minutes of a 2–0 away loss against UTA Arad and in the following game, a 4–0 home victory against Știința Timișoara he played as a starter and scored a double as well as his partner from the offence, Constantin Dinulescu.[2][3][4] Over the course of ten seasons, Tufan appeared in 230 Divizia A matches, the highlights of this period being a fourth position at the end of the 1966–67 season and 13 goals scored in the 1968–69 season, being the all-time Divizia A top goalscorer of Farul with 62 goals, making his last appearance in the competition on 13 May 1973 in a 0–0 against Petrolul Ploiești.[2][3][4] Tufan ended his career by playing two seasons in Divizia B at SC Tulcea, afterwards having a short managerial career at Granitul Babadag, helping the club earn promotion to Divizia C.[2][3][4]

International career

Marin Tufan played two games for Romania, both under the guidance of coach Angelo Niculescu, making his debut on 14 May 1969 in a 1–0 away victory against Switzerland at the 1970 World Cup qualifiers.[5][6] His second game for the national team was a friendly which ended 1–1 against Yugoslavia.[5]

Tufan was part of Romania's squad at the 1970 FIFA World Cup and for the participation in that tournament he was decorated by President of Romania Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.[7][8]

References
  1. "Marin Tufan profile". 11v11. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  2. "Poveşti şi dezvăluiri ale golgeterului all-time al "marinarilor". Marin Tufan a înscris şase goluri în meciul care l-a adus la Farul" [Stories and revelations of the all-time goal scorer of the "sailors". Marin Tufan scored six goals in the match that brought him to Farul] (in Romanian). Ziuaconstanta.ro. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  3. "Atacul de vis. Marin Tufan, golgeterul all-time al FC Farul Constanța, a împlinit 78 de ani" [The dream attack. Marin Tufan, the all-time goal scorer of FC Farul Constanța, turned 78 years old] (in Romanian). Ziuaconstanta.ro. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  4. Marin Tufan at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  5. "Marin Tufan". European Football. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  6. "Switzerland 0-1 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  7. "DECRET privind conferirea Ordinului și Medaliei Meritul Sportiv" (PDF). Monitorul Oficial al României Nr. 241. 28 March 2008. p. 3. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  8. "Decorarea unor personalități ale fotbalului românesc". Administrația Prezidențială. 25 March 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
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