Gheorghe Albu - International Appearances (original) (raw)

The outstanding Romanian player obtained 42 international caps with his National Team.
He established a series of 39 consecutive appearances (caps 1-39) which was not interrupted by any other matches of the Romanian national team. (In that series, he only missed the first 15 minutes of the match vs. Lithuania on 26- 8-1931, in which he came on as substitute, replacing Rudolf Bürgerafter a quarter of an hour.)
He held the Romanian caps record from June 24, 1935 (when he equalled the total of Emerich Vogl) until June 5, 1938 (when his total was surpassed by Iuliu Bodola).
All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.

Born: 18-11-1909 Died: 26- 6-1974 Country: Romania Caps: 42 (W21-D8-L13 - GF103-GA90 - %59.52) Age First Cap: 21 yr 173 d 10- 5-1931 vs. Bulgaria 5-2 Age Last Cap: 29 yr 16 d 4-12-1938 vs. Czechoslovakia 2-6 National Team Career: 7 yr 208 d

Caps Date Venue Opponent Score Competition

1 10- 5-31 București Bulgaria 5-2 Balkan Cup 2 28- 6-31 Zagreb Yugoslavia 4-2 Balkan Cup 3 23- 8-31 Warszawa Poland 3-2
4 26- 8-31 Kaunas Lithuania 4-2
5 20- 9-31 Oradea Czechoslov. Am. 4-1 [] Central Europ. Amat. Cup 6 4-10-31 Budapest Hungary Amat. 0-4 [] Central Europ. Amat. Cup 7 29-11-31 Athinai Greece 4-2 Balkan Cup 8 8- 5-32 București Austria Amat. 4-1 [] Central Europ. Amat. Cup 9 12- 6-32 București France 6-3
10 26- 6-32 Beograd Bulgaria 0-2 Balkan Cup 11 28- 6-32 Beograd Greece 3-0 Balkan Cup 12 3- 7-32 Beograd Yugoslavia 1-3 Balkan Cup 13 2-10-32 București Poland 0-5
14 16-10-32 Linz Austria Amat. 1-0 [] Central Europ. Amat. Cup 15 4- 6-33 București Bulgaria 7-0 Balkan Cup 16 6- 6-33 București Greece 1-0 Balkan Cup 17 11- 6-33 București Yugoslavia 5-0 Balkan Cup 18 24- 9-33 București Hungary Amat. 5-1 [] Central Europ. Amat. Cup 19 29-10-33 Bern Switzerland 2-2 World Cup Qualifier 20 25- 3-34 Pardubice Czechoslov. Am. 2-2 [] Central Europ. Amat. Cup 21 29- 4-34 București Yugoslavia 2-1 World Cup Qualifier 22 27- 5-34 Trieste Czechoslovakia 1-2 World Cup 23 14-10-34 Lw�w Poland 3-3
24 27-12-34 Athinai Greece 2-2 Balkan Cup 25 30-12-34 Athinai Bulgaria 3-2 Balkan Cup 26 1- 1-35 Athinai Yugoslavia 0-4 Balkan Cup 27 17- 6-35 Sofia Yugoslavia 0-2 Balkan Cup 28 19- 6-35 Sofia Bulgaria 0-4 Balkan Cup 29 24- 6-35 Sofia Greece 2-2 Balkan Cup 30 26- 8-35 Erfurt Germany 2-4
31 1- 9-35 Stockholm Sweden 1-7
32 3-11-35 București Poland 4-1
33 10- 5-36 București Yugoslavia 3-2 King Alexander Cup 34 17- 5-36 București Greece 5-2 Balkan Cup 35 24- 5-36 București Bulgaria 4-1 Balkan Cup 36 4-10-36 București Hungary 1-2
37 18- 4-37 București Czechoslovakia 1-1 Eduard Benes Cup 38 10- 6-37 București Belgium 2-1
39 27- 6-37 București Sweden 2-2
40 6- 9-38 Beograd Yugoslavia 1-1 Eduard Benes Cup 41 25- 9-38 București Germany 1-4
42 4-12-38 Praha Czechoslovakia 2-6 Eduard Benes Cup

[*] match not official for opponents

Total Record

Matches Won Draw Lost For Against Points Percentage 42 21 8 13 103- 90 50 59.52

Types of Matches Friendlies 12 World Cup 1 World Cup Qualifier 2 Balkan Cup 17 Central Europ. Am. Cup 6 [unofficial for opponents] Other Tournaments 4

Total 42

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Author: Karel Stokkermans Last updated: 3 Aug 2022