Titus Ozon

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Titus Ozon
Personal information
Date of birth (1927-05-13)13 May 1927
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania[1]
Date of death 24 November 1996(1996-11-24) (aged 69)
Place of death Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s)
Striker
Youth career
1937–1947 Unirea Tricolor București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1947–1948 Unirea Tricolor București[a] 22 (21)
1948–1954 Dinamo București 94 (55)
1951 → Dinamo Brașov (loan) 17 (8)
1955–1958
Progresul București[b]
 58 (41)
1958–1964 Rapid București 79 (33)
Total 270 (158)
International career
1952–1962[3] Romania 22 (7)
Managerial career
1964–1966
Progresul București
1968–1970
Jiul Petroşani
1971
Argeş Piteşti
1972–1974 Libya
1974–1975
Jiul Petroşani
1975–1976
FC Brăila
1976–1977
Pandurii Târgu Jiu
1977–1978
Azotul Slobozia
1978–1979 Șoimii Sibiu
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Titus Ozon (13 May 1927 – 24 November 1996) was a Romanian international football striker and manager.[4] He was considered one of the greatest talents of the postwar in the Romanian football, famous for his extraordinary ability to dribble.[5]

Career

He was born in

1962 (Rapid).[9]

In 1952, Titus Ozon was part of the Divizia A team that played two matches in the Soviet Union, with CSKA and Dynamo Moscow. Following the tournament, the members of this team received poor quality Pobeda watches, which they threw away, this being the first incident that aroused dissatisfaction with the communist regime.[10]

In 1953, during a match with Dinamo Tbilisi played in Bucharest, Titus Ozon manages to pass the ball between the legs of Georgian star Avtandil Gogoberidze. After this game he was named "enemy of the people" by the communist regime, which accused him of making fun of the Soviet people, being sanctioned with ten percent of his salary and arrested at the garrison for one day.[7]

In 1955 he wants to leave

Progresul, Cornel Drăgușin, considered him a "conflicting, independent and brilliant player on the field".[10]

In 1958, after returning to the country from a

Gheorghiu-Dej agreed with the condition that Ozon would play for the team that he liked, Rapid.[9][10]

In 1955 he plays in the comedy film Și Ilie face sport (Ilie also does sport), directed by Andrei Călărașu, in which the lives and morals of the athletes and fans were related. Ozon also played theater, being the star of the satire show "Bujor 12", which was played at the "Constantin Tănase" theater from Bucharest in 1957.[11]

He retired from football activity in 1964 and became the head coach of several teams in Romania, managing to train once outside the country at the national side of Libya, due to the good relations between presidents Nicolae Ceaușescu and Muammar Gaddafi.[11]

A park in Sector 2 of Bucharest bears his name.[6]

International career

Titus Ozon played 22 games and scored 7 goals for

Romania's 1952 Summer Olympics squad in which he played in the 2–1 loss against Hungary.[12][14]

International goals

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ozon goal.[12]
Goal Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 11 May 1952
București, Romania
  Czechoslovakia 3–1 3–1 Friendly
2 8 May 1954 Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion, Berlin, East Germany  East Germany 1–0 1–0 Friendly
3 19 September 1954 Népstadion, Budapest, Hungary  Hungary 1–1 1–5 Friendly
4 29 May 1955
București, Romania
  Poland 1–0 2–2 Friendly
5 12 June 1955 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Norway 1–0 1–0 Friendly
6 16 June 1957 Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens, Greece  Greece 2–1 2–1 1958 World Cup qualifiers
7 30 September 1962
București, Romania
  Morocco 2–0 4–0 Friendly

Honours

Player

Unirea Tricolor București

Dinamo București

Progresul București

Rapid București

Individual

Manager

Argeş Pitești

Notes

  1. Divizia A 1946–47 was the first one after, so the appearances and goals scored during this period for Unirea Tricolor București are not official, also the statistics for the 1946–47 Divizia B season are unavailable.[2]
  2. Progresul București are not official.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Titus Ozon. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ a b c Titus Ozon at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  3. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
    . Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Titus Ozon". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Regele fentei, rebelul din Obor!" [The king of the trick, the rebel from Obor!] (in Romanian). FreeJournalist.eu. 28 April 2016. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d "16 ani de la moartea lui Ozon. Povestea celui care i-a sfidat pe comunişti şi a fost trimis la tăiat stuf în Deltă" [16 years since the death of Ozon. The story of the one who defied the communists and was sent to cut reeds in the Delta] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 14 March 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  7. ^ a b c "Titus Ozon, maestrul driblingului, se răzbună! Nasturi pentru… găină!" [Titus Ozon, the master of dribbling, takes revenge! Buttons for… chicken!] (in Romanian). Fanatik.ro. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Topscorers of Liga 1 1932–2017". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  9. ^ a b c "Aşa s-a scris istoria. După ce a fost deportat în Deltă, marele fotbalist Titus Ozon s-a aşezat în genunchi în faţa lui Gheorghiu-Dej: "Iartă-mă, te implor!"" [That's how history was written. After being deported to the Delta, the great footballer Titus Ozon sat on his knees in front of Gheorghiu-Dej: "Forgive me, I beg you!"] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  10. ^ a b c d e "Drama unui mare fotbalist! A fost terorizat de Securitate pentru că a driblat un rus!" [The drama of a great footballer! He was terrorized by the Security for dribbling a Russian!] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 14 March 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  11. ^ a b ""Nas", vrăjitorul din Obor" ["Nose", the wizard of Obor] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 8 April 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  12. ^ a b c d e "Titus Ozon". European Football. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  13. ^ "Romania – Czechoslovakia 3:1". European Football. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  14. ^ "Hungary – Romania 2:1". European Football. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  15. ^ "Romanian Cup – Season 1954". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  16. ^ "Romanian Cup – Season 1957–1958". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  17. ^ "Romanian Cup – Season 1960–1961". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  18. ^ "Romanian Cup – Season 1961–1962". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  19. ^ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

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