*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 January 2020
Vasile Dobrău (born 14 June 1953) is a Romanian former football centre back.[2][3] He was also a manager, assistant coach and youth coach.[4][5][6]
Club career
Vasile Dobrău was born on 14 June 1953 in București, Romania and he started to play football in 1965 at Dinamo București's youth center, his first coaches being Petre Steinbach and Gheorghe Timar.[7][8][9] In 1969, coach Nicolae Dumitru brought him to train with the senior squad, giving him his Divizia A debut on 22 July 1970 in a 2–0 away loss against ASA Târgu Mureș.[1][7][8][9] Over the course of nine seasons spent with The Red Dogs he played alongside famous players of Romanian football like Florea Dumitrache, Cornel Dinu, Dudu Georgescu, Mircea Lucescu or the Nunweiller brothers Ion, Lică and Radu, winning three Divizia A titles, in the first he was used by coach Ion Nunweiller in 27 games, in the second Nicolae Dumitru sent him on the field 32 times and at the third he worked with Ion Nunweiller again who gave him 26 appearances in which he scored three goals.[1][7][8][9][10] During his period spent at Dinamo, Dobrău also played 12 games in European competitions, making appearances against AC Milan, FC Köln and Real Madrid, helping the team earn a 1–0 home victory in front of the latter in the 1975–76 European Cup.[1][7][8] In 1978 he wanted go play for Universitatea Cluj but Dinamo did not approve the transfer, thus ending being suspended for one year and a half before being able to play for "U".[1][8][9] He stayed with The Red Caps for two seasons and a half, in the last one of them, the team relegating to Divizia B where he would end up playing one season and a half for Armătura Zalău, before transferring in 1984 at Dacia Mecanica Orăștie, helping it promote as a player-coach from Divizia C to Divizia B.[1][7][8][11] Throughout his career, Dobrău earned 229 Divizia A appearances in which he scored four goals and made 98 appearances with 21 goals scored in Divizia B.[1]