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Bogdan Stelea
Stelea in 2015
Personal information
Full name Bogdan Gheorghe Stelea
Date of birth (1967-12-05) 5 December 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position Goalkeeper
Youth career
1980–1986 Dinamo București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986–1991 Dinamo București 98 (0)
1987 → Politehnica Iași (loan)[1] 0 (0)
1992–1993 Mallorca 52 (0)
1993 Standard Liège 3 (0)
1994 Rapid București 13 (0)
1994–1995 Samsunspor 31 (0)
1995–1997 Steaua București 47 (0)
1997–2004 Salamanca 183 (0)
2002 → Rapid București (loan) 10 (0)
2004–2005 Dinamo București 13 (0)
2005 Akratitos 14 (0)
2006 Oțelul Galați 0 (0)
2006–2008 Unirea Urziceni 37 (0)
2008–2009 FC Brașov 23 (0)
Total 524 (0)
International career
1988–2005 Romania 91 (0)
Managerial career
2009–2011 Romania (assistant)
2012 Astra Ploiești
2013–2014 Romania U21
2014 Viitorul Constanța
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bogdan Gheorghe Stelea (Romanian pronunciation: [boɡˈdan ˈstele̯a]; born 5 December 1967) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Having played professionally into his 40s, he played for all three major Liga I clubs in his country's capital, and spent a vast part of his career in Spain, mainly with Salamanca, also Stelea played nearly 100 times for Romania, and represented the nation in three World Cups and two European Championships.[2][3]

Club career

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Stelea was born on 5 December 1967 in Bucharest, Romania and began playing football at age 12 when he was brought to the youth center of Dinamo București by boxing coach Dumitru Ion.[1][4][5] There, he worked with Iosif Varga, and also during these years he was teammates with future national team competitor Florin Prunea.[6][7] He made his Liga I debut on 20 November 1986, playing for Dinamo under the guidance of coach Mircea Lucescu in a 2–0 victory against Oțelul Galați.[1][2][4][6][8] However, shortly afterwards he was sent on loan for the second half of the season to Politehnica Iași, where he did not make any appearances.[1][4][3]

Stelea returned under Lucescu's command at Dinamo, becoming first choice goalkeeper in 1988, replacing Dumitru Moraru.[1][4][6] His first performance was reaching the quarter-finals of the 1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup where they were eliminated on the away goals rule after 1–1 on aggregate by Sampdoria, conceding only two goals in six games, keeping four clean sheets.[1][4][6][9] In the following season he helped the club win The Double, playing 22 league matches, and appearing the entire match in the 6–4 win over rivals Steaua București in the Cupa României final.[4][5][10] He also played eight matches in the 1989–90 European Cup Winners' Cup campaign when the team reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated after 2–0 on aggregate by Anderlecht, conceding five goals and keeping three clean sheets.[1][2][4][5][11]

While he was in a training camp before a game in the 1990–91 European Cup against Porto, Stelea was nicknamed Arnold by Corneliu Vadim Tudor who visited them, because his haircut looked similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger's in the movie Red Heat.[2][4][12] In the 1991–92 season he was used by coach Florin Halagian in 11 league games as The Red Dogs won the championship undefeated.[4][10] They also eliminated Luis Figo's Sporting Lisbon in the UEFA Cup with a 2–1 aggregate victory.[4][13] However, he did not finish the season with them, as he was transferred late in 1991 to Mallorca for €300,000.[3][4][5][14]

Stelea made his La Liga debut under coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer in a 2–0 away loss to Real Madrid, one of the goals conceded was scored by his compatriot Gheorghe Hagi.[2][3][4][5][15] After two seasons in Spain, with relegation in his first, he joined Belgium's Standard Liège where he was teammates with fellow Romanian Mircea Rednic.[2][3][4][5][16] Because he did not play much for Standard and risked not being selected for Romania's 1994 World Cup squad, he returned home to play for half a year at Rapid București.[2][3][4][5] After he participated in the World Cup, Stelea spent one year in Turkey at Samsunspor alongside compatriots Marius Cheregi and Daniel Timofte, being brought there by coach Gheorghe Mulțescu as first choice goalkeeper.[2][3][4][5][17]

Afterwards, Stelea joined Steaua București, where in his two-year spell under coach Dumitru Dumitriu, helped win The Double in both seasons.[2][3][4][5][10] He played 11 games in the Champions League group stage over the course of two seasons and kept a clean sheet in the 1995 Supercupa României victory against Petrolul Ploiești.[2][3][4][5][18] During this period he also had a successful trial with Sunderland, but could not negotiate a deal.[19]

In 1997, Stelea was transferred to UD Salamanca for €900,000, where he experienced his steadiest period, remaining with the team for seven years.[2][3][4][5][20] However, this period was interrupted by a small loan spell at Rapid with whom he played under coach Mircea Rednic in the 2–1 victory against Dinamo in the 2002 Cupa României final.[2][3][4][5][21] He appeared in 191 overall games for Los Charros during his tenure while competing mainly in the second division, but spent his first two seasons in the top flight.[2][3][4][5] During these years, as he was teammates with fellow Romanians Cătălin Munteanu, Lucian Marinescu, Ovidiu Stîngă and Gabriel Popescu, the club's nickname was "Salamanca Rumana".[22] In 2004, Stelea returned to Dinamo, helping the club win the 2004–05 Cupa României, being used by coach Ioan Andone in the final where he kept a clean sheet in the victory against Farul Constanța.[2][3][4][5][23] In 2005 he was brought in Greece to Akratitos together with Lucian Marinescu by his former national team colleague Ilie Dumitrescu who was coach.[3][4][5][24]

In 2006, Stelea returned to Romania and signed with Oțelul Galați, where he spent half a season, but did not feature in any matches because of an injury.[2][3][4][5][25] The following campaign he moved to Unirea Urziceni for two seasons, being coached by his former national team colleague Dan Petrescu, but he became first choice only in the second season.[2][3][4][5][26] Stelea finally ended his 23-year-long career at age 41 by the end of the 2008–09 season, playing 23 matches under coach Răzvan Lucescu at FC Brașov, managing not to concede any goals for 707 consecutive minutes.[2][3][4][5][27]

International career

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Early years and 1990 World Cup

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Stelea played 91 games for Romania in which he conceded 72 goals, making his debut on 23 November 1988 when coach Emerich Jenei sent him to replace Silviu Lung for the last 20 minutes of a 3–0 friendly victory against Israel.[6][28][29] His second game was a 1–0 victory against Bulgaria in the successful 1990 World Cup qualifiers.[28] He was selected by coach Jenei to be part of the final tournament squad, but did not play in any games.[3][28]

1994 World Cup and Euro 1996

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After playing one match during the Euro 1992 qualifiers, Stelea made six appearances in the successful 1994 World Cup qualifiers.[28] He was part of the "Golden Generation" that reached the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup final tournament, but was used by coach Anghel Iordănescu in only two group stage games, a 3–1 victory against Colombia and a 4–1 loss to Switzerland.[5][28][30] Florin Prunea was chosen to play in the other three games of the campaign.[5] Stelea played 10 games during the successful Euro 1996 qualifiers.[28] Subsequently, he played under Iordănescu in two 1–0 losses to France and Bulgaria in the final tournament, as his side failed to progress from their group.[28][31]

World Cup 1998 and Euro 2000

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Stelea played eight games in the successful 1998 World Cup qualifiers.[28] Afterwards he was used by Iordănescu in all four games during the final tournament as the team reached the round of 16 where they were eliminated after a 1–0 loss to Croatia.[28][32] He went on to play seven matches during the successful Euro 2000 qualifiers.[28] Then he played under Jenei in all four games in the final tournament as they reached the quarter-finals where they were defeated with 2–1 by Italy.[28][33]

Final years

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Stelea played seven games during the 2002 World Cup qualifiers, including the lost play-off to Slovenia.[5][28] In his final years, he made one appearance in the Euro 2004 qualifiers in a 3–0 victory against Bosnia and Herzegovina.[28] He also was the team's captain for the first and only time in a 2006 World Cup qualifier 1–1 draw against Armenia in which he had a highly appreciated performance.[5][34] He made his final appearance for the national team on 9 February 2005 in a 2–2 friendly draw against Slovakia.[28][35]

For representing his country during 1990–2000 at the World and European Cups final tournaments, Stelea was decorated by President of Romania Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.[36]

Controversies

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On 3 June 1998, during a friendly against Paraguay, played at the Ghencea stadium, Stelea was booed by the fans after conceding a goal by Roberto Acuña and in response he made some obscene gestures towards them.[5][37] He later stated that he had a moment of weakness because his child was very sick in the hospital at that time.[5][37] In 2001, he had a fight with the striker Ionel Ganea in a training session that occurred before a Romania – Italy game.[38]

Managerial career

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Stelea started his coaching career in 2009, when he worked as an assistant for Romania's national team under Răzvan Lucescu, who had been his coach at his last club, FC Brașov.[27][39] On 6 June 2012, Stelea became head coach of Astra Ploiești, but two months later, following a home draw against CS Turnu Severin, he was sacked and replaced with Gheorghe Mulțescu.[40][41] Afterwards he went to coach for a year Romania's under-21 national team from 2013 until 2014.[40][42] In June 2014, Stelea accepted an offer from his former national team colleague Gheorghe Hagi to coach his club Viitorul Constanța, but resigned after not obtaining any victory in the first four rounds of the season.[40][43]

Personal life

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His son, Bogdan Stelea Jr., was also a footballer who played as a defender and spent his career in the lower leagues of Romania, playing for teams such as FC Snagov and Chindia Târgoviște.[44]

Career statistics

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Club

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[4][45]
Club Season League National cup[a] Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dinamo București 1986–87 Divizia A 1 0 0 0 1 0
1987–88 Divizia A 9 0 0 0 9 0
1988–89 Divizia A 29 0 1 0 6[b] 0 36 0
1989–90 Divizia A 22 0 1 0 8[b] 0 31 0
1990–91 Divizia A 26 0 4[c] 0 30 0
1991–92 Divizia A 11 0 4[d] 0 15 0
Total 98 0 2 0 22 0 122 0
Politehnica Iași (loan) 1986–87 Divizia B 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mallorca 1991–92 La Liga 27 0 0 0 — 27 0
1992–93 Segunda División 25 0 4 0 — 29 0
1993–94 Segunda División 0 0 1 0 — 0 0
Total 52 0 5 0 — 57 0
Standard Liège 1993–94 Belgian First Division 3 0 1 0 0 0 4 0
Rapid București (loan) 1993–94 Divizia A 13 0 — — 13 0
Samsunspor 1994–95 1.Lig 31 0 5 0 — 36 0
Steaua București 1995–96 Divizia A 25 0 1 0 8[e] 0 34 0
1996–97 Divizia A 22 0 1 0 5[e] 0 28 0
Total 47 0 2 0 13 0 62 0
Salamanca 1997–98 La Liga 30 0 2 0 — 32 0
1998–99 La Liga 33 0 2 0 — 35 0
1999–00 Segunda División 28 0 0 0 — 28 0
2000–01 Segunda División 14 0 4 0 — 18 0
2001–02 Segunda División 4 0 0 0 — 4 0
2002–03 Segunda División 36 0 0 0 — 36 0
2003–04 Segunda División 38 0 0 0 — 38 0
Total 183 0 8 0 — 191 0
Rapid București (loan) 2001–02 Divizia A 10 0 1 0 — 11 0
Dinamo București 2004–05 Divizia A 13 0 5 0 0 0 18 0
Akratitos 2005–06 Alpha Ethniki 14 0 2 0 — 16 0
Oțelul Galați 2005–06 Divizia A 0 0 — — 0 0
Unirea Urziceni 2006–07 Liga I 9 0 1 0 — 10 0
2007–08 Liga I 28 0 4 0 — 32 0
Total 37 0 5 0 — 42 0
FC Brașov 2008–09 Liga I 23 0 1 0 — 24 0
Career total 524 0 37 0 35 0 596 0
  1. ^ Includes Cupa României, Copa del Rey, Belgian Cup, Turkish Cup, Greek Cup
  2. ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  3. ^ Appearances in UEFA European Cup
  4. ^ Appearances in UEFA Cup
  5. ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Champions League

International

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Appearances and goals by national team and year[28]
National team Year Apps Goals
Romania 1988 1 0
1989 1 0
1990 4 0
1991 1 0
1992 6 0
1993 1 0
1994 11 0
1995 6 0
1996 6 0
1997 7 0
1998 12 0
1999 7 0
2000 9 0
2001 8 0
2002 4 0
2003 2 0
2004 4 0
2005 1 0
Total 91 0

Honours

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Dinamo București

Standard Liège

Steaua București

Rapid București

Unirea Urziceni

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    "Motivul pentru care Corneliu Vadim Tudor l-a poreclit "Arnold" pe Bogdan Stelea: "Mie asa imi placea"" [The reason why Corneliu Vadim Tudor nicknamed Bogdan Stelea "Arnold": "I liked it that way"] (in Romanian). Sport.ro. 4 April 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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    ""Am crescut un urs în vestiar!". GSP a redescoperit primul fotbalist care a jucat la Dinamo, Rapid și Steaua, deținătorul recordului all-time de minute la rând fără gol primit în Divizia A" ["I raised a bear in the locker room!". GSP rediscovered the first footballer to play for Dinamo, Rapid and Steaua, the holder of the all-time record of minutes in a row without a goal received in Division A] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
    "Andrei Vlad, #1 în istoria FCSB! Locul 6 într-un top uriaș: peste Prunea și Duckadam" [Andrei Vlad, # 1 in the history of FCSB! 6th place in a huge top: over Prunea and Duckadam] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
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  37. ^ a b "Stelea, după 24 de ani de la conflictul incredibil cu publicul din Ghencea. "Cea mai mare ipocrizie care poate să existe"" [Stelea, after 24 years since the incredible conflict with the public in Ghencea. "The greatest hypocrisy that can exist"] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 4 June 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Explicațiile unui gest la aproape 20 de ani distanță. Bogdan Stelea, despre motivele care l-au împins să arate semne obscene în Ghencea: "Am cedat pentru că am fost provocat!"" [The explanations of a gesture almost 20 years apart. Bogdan Stelea, about the reasons that pushed him to show obscene signs in Ghencea: "I gave in because I was provoked!"] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "24 de ani de când Stelea le arăta degetele mijlocii spectatorilor, iar Hagi cerea statuie. În 2015, când i s-a făcut un bust, "Regele" declara: "Eu sunt legendă, nu statuie! V-am făcut fericiți"" [24 years since Stelea showed the middle fingers to the spectators, and Hagi asked for a statue. In 2015, when a bust was made of him, "The King" declared: "I'm a legend, not a statue! I made you happy"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Amintiri cu Acuña. Stelea şi-a pus toată Ghencea în cap din cauza lui" [Memories with Acuña. Stelea put all of Ghencea in her head because of him] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 11 June 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  38. ^ "Bogdan Stelea, dezvăluiri despre bătaia cu Ionel Ganea de la echipa națională. "El era și este un animal"" [Bogdan Stelea, revelations about the fight with Ionel Ganea from the national team. "He was and is an animal"] (in Romanian). Evz.ro. 26 September 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  39. ^ "Razvan Lucescu este noul selectioner al nationalei Romaniei" [Razvan Lucescu is the new coach of the Romanian national team] (in Romanian). Mediafax.ro. 29 April 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Stelea: Am acceptat sa fiu secund la nationala nu as fi fost de acord sa fiu antrenor de portari" [Stelea: I accepted to be assistant at the national team, I would not have agreed to be a goalkeeper coach] (in Romanian). Mediafax.ro. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  40. ^ a b c ""Arnold" nu bate pe nimeni: Bogdan Stelea, titular în Generaţia de Aur ca jucător, abonat la eşecuri ca antrenor" ["Arnold" doesn't beat anyone: Bogdan Stelea, starter in the Golden Generation as a player, subscribed to failures as a coach] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  41. ^ ""Mister" Stelea şi-a ales secundul la Astra din două încercări" ["Mister" Stelea successfully chose his assistant at Astra from two tries] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 6 June 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "INCREDIBIL! CIRC în Liga I! Stelea, demis în direct la TV: "Mulţescu e noul antrenor!"" [INCREDIBLE! CIRCUS in Liga I! Stelea fired live on TV: "Mulţescu is the new manager"] (in Romanian). ProSport. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  42. ^ "Bogdan Stelea va fi numit selecționer la naționala de tineret. Săndoi a demisionat" [Bogdan Stelea will be appointed as the national youth coach. Sandoi resigned] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "FRF i-a acceptat demisia lui Stelea de la naţionala de tineret" [FRF accepted Stelea's resignation from the national youth team] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 19 June 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  43. ^ "Stelea, în fața provocării carierei: "Chiar dacă suntem o echipă tânără, lumea va aștepta rezultate"" [Stelea, facing the career challenge: "Even if we are a young team, the world will expect results"] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 28 June 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Stelea a demisionat de la Viitorul. Al treilea antrenor din Liga 1 plecat în 4 etape!" [Stelea resigned from Viitorul. The third coach in Liga 1 left in 4 stages!] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Bogdan Stelea – antrenor principal" [Bogdan Stelea – head coach] (in Romanian). Academia Hagi. 27 June 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  44. ^ "Bogdan Stelea jr, pe urmele tatălui" [Bogdan Stelea jr, following the footsteps of his father] (in Romanian). libertatea.ro. 16 October 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
    "Bogdan Ionuț Stelea profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  45. ^ Bogdan Stelea at BDFutbol
    Bogdan Stelea at WorldFootball.net
    "Bogdan Stelea's 2004–05 Romanian Cup appearances". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Bogdan Stelea's 2006–07 Romanian Cup appearance". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Bogdan Stelea's 2007–08 Romanian Cup appearances". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    "Bogdan Stelea's 2008–09 Romanian Cup appearance". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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