Ion Nunweiller

Ion Nunweiller (9 January 1936 – 3 February 2015)[4] was a Romanian football defender and manager.[5]

Ion Nunweiller

Ion Nunweiller in 1971
Personal information
Date of birth	9 January 1936
Place of birth	Piatra Neamţ, Romania
Date of death	3 February 2015 (aged 79)
Place of death	Pitești, Romania
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1950–1951	Progresul ICAB București
1951–1955	Dinamo București
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1955–1968	Dinamo București[lower-alpha 1]	244	(19)
1968–1970	Fenerbahçe	57	(6)
1970–1972	Dinamo București	35	(0)
Total		336	(25)
National team
1958–1967	Romania	40[lower-alpha 2]	(0)
Teams managed
1972–1979	Dinamo București
1979–1981	Romania U21
1981–1983	Gloria Bistrița
1984–1985	Corvinul Hunedoara
1985–1986	Victoria București
1986–1989	Flacăra Moreni
1990	Argeș Pitești
1990–1991	Bursaspor
1991–1992	Argeș Pitești (technical director)
1992–1993	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
1996–1998	Romania (women)
1998–1999	FC Baia Mare
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He came from a family with six brothers, the oldest one of them, Constantin was a water polo player and the other five: Dumitru, Lică, Victor, Radu and Eduard were footballers, each of them having at least one spell at Dinamo București, they are the reason why the club's nickname is "The Red Dogs".[6][7]

Honours

Player

Dinamo București

• Romanian League (5): 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1970–71
• Romanian Cup (3): 1958–59, 1963–64, 1967–68

Fenerbahçe

• Turkish League (1): 1969–70
• TSYD Cup (1): 1969–70

Manager

Dinamo București

• Romanian League (3): 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77

Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț

• Romanian Second League (1): 1992–93

Notes

1. The statistics for the 1957 unofficial championship called Cupa Primăverii are not taken into consideration.[1]
2. Including 14 appearances for Romania's Olympic team[2][3]

References

1. Ion Nunweiller at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian) and StatisticsFootball.com
2. "Ion Nunweiller". European Football. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
3. Ion Nunweiller at National-Football-Teams.com
4. 'Red Dog' Nunweiller mourned in Romania
5. Ion Nunweiller at WorldFootball.net
6. "Fata primului "câine roșu", cele mai frumoase povești despre Lică Nunweiller și un îndemn pentru ultima etapă: "Tata v-ar fi zis să fiți Un suflet!"" [The girl of the first "red dog", the most beautiful stories about Lica Nunweiller, and an exhortation for the last stage: "Dad would have said be A Soul!"] (in Romanian). premium.gsp.ro. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
7. "Destinul fratilor Nunweiller, cei care au dat numele de "cainii-rosii". "Nevestele ne-au indepartat"" [The Destiny of the Nunweiller Brothers, who gave the name of "Red Dogs". "The wives separated us"] (in Romanian). cancan.ro. Retrieved 4 October 2017.

External links

• Ion Nunweiller – FIFA competition record
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ion Nunweiller". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012.