“He told the coach to come and see me, my case was not so publicized.”

15 years ago, he was at the center of a report made by Gazeta in Pitești. Had only turned 20, already scored goals for FC Argeș and He had been the last perspective footballer discovered by Nicolae Dobrin before the disappearance of “Gâscan, spent in the autumn of 2007”.

“GSP presents you the precious heritage of Dobrin for Romanian football”, titled the late Cristian Marinescu, the former GSP correspondent in Pitești, in an interview that he granted near the tomb of “Prince in Trivale”.

I was talking about hours, not only about football, but also about life! He told me that before I was a great footballer, I have to be a man! Each advice after a match, every comfort or every mustard helped me! I was fascinated by every word of Mr. Dobrin.

– Dănuț Ivănică in 2010, about interactions with Dobrin

Took the chest after Penescu in the chest

His Iva's career, bruised by various unhappy circumstances, did not rise to the level of expectations around him.

The striker of the box was contemporary with “was post-penescu”, that is, the one in which the club was barely succeeded, prey to financial problems and instability. The peak and reached it in the second league, where the kid born in Roșiorii de Vede was one of the frequent markers of Argeș. He had been promoted to the first team of Ionuț Badea.

In all the bad recipe, a delicate injury, a terrible cross -ligament rupture, is also held, which kept for eight months outside the circuit the nickname “the redcovan in Trivale”.

Ivănică finds its place in the last nuclei of footballers “invented” in the Pitesti laboratories, before the team is abolished. He was a colleague, among others, with the former great hopes Cătălin Doman and Leonard Manole, with Alexandru Răuță, who became captain at Dinamo, with Marius Briceag, Ex-Craiova and FCSB, Rover Cârstea (former goalscorer of Arges, at one step to sign with Dinamo in 2011, arrived in Timișoara), Andrei Panait, Cârstoiu. The last one, seriously injured by Alex Pițurcă, in the summer of 2008.

The inevitable bankruptcy of 2013 has scattered in all directions a whole generationand the discordant note did not make the grinding striker at the “Nicolae Dobrin” School, who ended his adventure from Pitesti with a balance of 80 parties and 12 goals scored.

He later played for FC Olt Slatina, UTA, Lighthouse, Minaur, Delta Dobrogea Tulcea and, finally, a stop in his hometown, at Sporting Roșiori, finishing his career without match on the first stage and with a lot of “what would have been if …”.

Dănuț Ivănică, 15 years later: “I was a bit out of home. We were young, but I was facing”

Contacted by GSP, Dănuț Ivănică made an incursion in his past at FC Argeș, applauding the current course of the team, in books to return to the first stage.

“I want to promote and see them to succeed. I watch matches, I saw them on Wednesday, at Reșița. I see FC Argeș in 3rd place, which will be directly promotable.

They have players, they have a coach, they have a leader, it is important to make a team. You know how it is, when you have individualities, it's harder to put them in a team. But it seems that they are homogeneous and they started playing well, I also looked at the matches. ”

He continues remembering the years in the trivale: “I spent a lot of time in Pitești … three years at the” Nicolae Dobrin “school, I came there from the ninth grade, after which I bought FC Arges and I stayed for another five years.

After relegated in 2009, in the phase with Mr. Penescu, I was until 2013 in Liga 2. I remained many young people, but I was facing. Good teams came home with money, but I was a little out. And most of us were born in '89, we were all 20 years old. I was a colleague with Biceag, with Rover Cîrstea …. I am sure that if that team remained, we would have been able to promote in 2014.

Believe me, the world probably didn't pay much attention to us then, but play three or four years only with children and cope … I had no money, because Penescu could no longer put money in the team, but it was a good core of players at FC Argeș. It's a pity that the team could not continue (No No Distinted in 2013)“, Confessed Ivănică, in dialogue with gsp.ro”.

“I was the last product discovered by Dobrin”

The memories with the unmatched Dobrin are invaluable, they still carry them like a talisman. Fresh is the photos discovered in the photo archive of the site:

“I have many memories with Dobrin … I spent three years at his school. I was the last product of him, yes. It's a matter that was so publicized at that time. Not joining too much, injuring me after FC Argeș promoted (No in 2008), my case was not so publicized.

I went to Dobrin's school in the ninth grade, I did high school in Pitesti, I gave evidence at the Ursului Valley and, after 3 days, I passed those tests. I stayed there, at the Inn from Valea Ursului. When I went there, my generation has already played for a year together, I entered after I finished the ninth grade. The first year was accommodating for me.

Dobrin came to workouts daily, and at matches he was never missing, although he knew he had health problems. Sometimes, he looked from the window from his office to our workouts. He was watching us, he was coming to us on the field. He gave us another center … From place, normally, he was 60 years old. Before our matches, Dobrin came to us, offered us some tips ”.

“I remember, the pictures (no of the GSP archive) I am after I got a goal in Târgu Mureș and I beat 2-0. Since then the world has begun to know about me.

I was even his last product and I tell you why … I remember that I had one last year at his school, he called Ionuț Badea to see us, he had told him that he had a few good players. He immediately put his eyes on me and selected me. Dobrin told Ionuț Badea to come and see me. After I debuted, at 2-3 months died”, Said Ivănică.

I was “main” at Sporting Roșiori, now I am “second”, I am a graduate B. I have groups of children in Roșiorii de Vede for six years. At the big team, we go on a downward trend, there were big problems with the money, we are bad. I suffered with the money and no players came. I have the satisfaction with the children, we are in the first place with the U15 at the county level.

– Dănuț Ivănică, a former fc Argeș striker