Dumitru Pavlovici

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Dumitru Pavlovici
Personal information
Date of birth (1912-04-26)26 April 1912
Place of birth Timișoara, Romania
Date of death 28 September 1993(1993-09-28) (aged 81)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1931–1933 Dacia Timișoara
1933–1941 Ripensia Timișoara 124 (0)
1941–1946 CFR Turnu Severin[a] 0 (0)
1946–1951
CFR Timișoara
52 (0)
Total 176 (0)
International career
1936–1942 Romania 18 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dumitru Pavlovici (26 April 1912 – 28 September 1993) was a Romanian football goalkeeper who played for Romania in the 1938 FIFA World Cup.[2]

Club career

Dumitru Pavlovici, nicknamed Pantera neagră (English: The Black Panther) was born on 26 April 1912 in Timișoara, Romania, growing up and starting to play football as a child in the Mehala neighborhood.[1][3] He started playing organized football as a forward at local club, Dacia.[1][3] He first played as a goalkeeper while he was still at Dacia in a game with AMEF.[1][3]

In 1933, Pavlovici went at

1937–38 season, Pavlovici played 19 games under the guidance of coach Sepp Pojar, helping Ripensia win another title.[1][3][6][7]

In 1941, Pavlovici signed with

CFR Timișoara for the last five years of his career, the highlights of this period being a runner-up position in the 1947–48 season and the reaching of a Cupa României final in the same season which was lost with 3–2 loss in front of ITA Arad in which he did not play, Aurel Boroș being preferred instead.[1][3][11]

International career

Dumitru Pavlovici played 18 games at international level for Romania, making his debut under coach Constantin Rădulescu on 17 May 1936 in a 5–2 win over Greece at the 1936 Balkan Cup, also appearing in the 4–1 win with Bulgaria as the team won the cup.[12][13][14][15] He was selected by coaches Săvulescu and Rădulescu to be part of the squad that participated at the 1938 World Cup.[12][16] He played in the first game against Cuba which ended 3–3, his teammate Robert Sadowski playing in the replay which ended with a surprisingly 2–1 loss.[12][16][17][18] Pavlovici captained the national team in his last two appearances from 1942 which were friendlies, a 1–0 loss with Slovakia and a 2–2 with Croatia.[12]

Death

Dumitru Pavlovici died on 28 September 1993 at age 81.[1][3][12]

Notes

  1. Divizia A 1946–47 was the first one after, so the appearances and goals scored during this period for CFR Turnu Severin are not official.[1]

Honours

Ripensia Timișoara

CFR Turnu Severin

Romania

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Dumitru Pavlovici at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ "1938 FIFA World Cup France, Romania squad". Fifa.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k ""Pantera neagră" din Mehala. Povestea lui Dumitru Pavlovici, portarul agil al Ripensiei" [The "Black Panther" of Mehala. The story of Dumitru Pavlovici, the agile goalkeeper of Ripensia] (in Romanian). Pressalert.ro. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Romanian Cup - 1933-1934". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  5. ^ a b Dumitru Pavlovici at National-Football-Teams.com
  6. ^ a b c d "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  7. ^ a b c "FOTBAL. Noua CAMPIOANA a ROMANIEI. Ce mai vuiet, ce mai larma..." [FOOTBALL. The new CHAMPION of ROMANIA. What a noise, what a noise ...] (in Romanian). Vechi.timisoaraexpress.ro. 14 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  8. ^ a b "CFR Cluj, ca Rapidul pe vremea lui "Il Luce"! Un record vechi de 20 de ani a fost egalat! Performanţa imposibilă realizată de clujeni" [CFR Cluj, like Rapid in the time of "Il Luce"! A 20-year-old record has been matched! The impossible performance achieved by the people from Cluj] (in Romanian). Fanatik.ro. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Romanian Cup - 1935-1936". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  10. ^ a b "Romanian Cup – 1942–1943". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  11. ^ "Romanian Cup – 1947–1948". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  12. ^ a b c d e f "Dumitru Pavlovici". European Football. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Balkan Cup 1936". European Football. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Romania 5-2 Greece". European Football. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  15. ^ "Romania 4-1 Bulgaria". European Football. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  16. ^ a b "România – Cuba: povestea eliminării ruşinoase de la Cupa Mondială a primei generații de excepţie din istoria "tricolorilor"" [Romania – Cuba: the story of the shameful elimination from the World Cup of the first exceptional generation in the history of the "tricolors"] (in Romanian). Theplaymaker.ro. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  17. ^ "Cuba 3-3 România, 5 iunie 1938 (Campionatul Mondial din Franța '38)" [Cuba 3-3 Romania, June 5, 1938 (World Cup in France '38)] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  18. ^ "Campionatul Mondial din Franța '38: Cuba 2-1 România, 9 iunie 1938" [World Championship in France '38: Cuba 2-1 Romania, June 9, 1938] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 20 March 2024.

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