Ion Pârcălab

Ion Pârcălab

Personal information
Full name	Pârcălab I. Ion
Date of birth	5 November 1941
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1961	UTA Arad	38	(13)
1961–1970	Dinamo Bucureşti	194	(53)
1970–1973	Nîmes Olympique	83	(20)
National team
1961–1968	Romania	38	(5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Ion Pârcălab (born 5 November 1941)^[1] is a retired Romanian footballer. He was nicknamed "The Carpathian Arrow" by coach Helenio Herrera.

His last name is sometimes spelled Pîrcălab. He had to change the spelling of his last name in 1953 (due to a Romanian language spelling reform) to Pîrcălab, but in 1993 the spelling was reverted to Pârcălab. Which means the during his football career he had to use the spelling Pîrcălab (see Romanian special letters).

Pârcălab played for UTA Arad, Dinamo Bucureşti and Nîmes Olympique in France.

In 1965, he was awarded the title "Best Football Player" in Romania. He won four titles in a row with Dinamo București. He also participated at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with the Romanian national team.

Honours

Club

Dinamo Bucharest

• Romanian League (4): 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65
• Romanian Cup (2): 1963–64, 1967–68

Nîmes Olympique

• Coppa delle Alpi (1): 1972
• French League
  • Runner-up (1): 1971–72

Notes

1. Football sources report his date of birth as being 5 November while Olympic sources report his date of birth as being 15 November.

External links

• Profile at romaniansoccer.ro
• Ion Pârcălab at National-Football-Teams.com
• Profile at weltfussball.de
• Profile at sports-reference.com