“Everyone comes to us … These are the living conditions that Romania offers”

There is mourning in Romanian football, after Lajos Sătmăreanu, the former right defender with 42 appearances in the national team and 10 years spent in the service of Star, ceased life. Former colleagues lament the disappearance of Bihorean, which was an indispensable piece of the first representative at the 1970 World Cup.

Liță Dumitru, at the death of Lajos Sătmăreanu: “A colleague who understood football! In the cantonments, his mouth was not heard”

Contacted by GSP by telephone, Ion “Liță” Dumitru offered an emotional confession, in which he also spoke about the last years of Lajos Sătmăreanu's life.

“First of all, God forgive him and be the light peasant!

Lajos was a sensational teammate, a colleague who understood football. Because we, when we played football, had some things that Nea Angelo (No. Niculescu) He put them into practice through us, and every time, of all, Lajos was in very good relationships with him. He always contributed, both in the field and outside, in what we were to put into practice.

This is life, everyone comes to us … It has been a lot, after finishing it with football, but these are the living conditions that Romania can offer. I remember his calm that he displayed every time …

I haven't talked to him for a long time, there are years … He was withdrawn, as it happens and others since then, you don't give them anymore, as is Vasile Iordache or others.

He helped the Steaua club, went to children and juniors, and Lajos took out footballers! It was a guy who remembered the tactics that had to be set up.

I remember that Lajos was a very good defender on the offensive phase. He was a very good boy, his mouth was not heard in the cantonment. And we stayed for a long time through cantonments... he was a very good friend with Mircea Lucescu and Dembrovschi and contributed to the good condition of the team. He was a player who saw his job! I'm sorry about him! ”, Commented Liță Dumitru, in a dialogue worn with GSP.ro from across the ocean.

10 yearsHe played Sătmăreanu at Steaua, between 1965 and 1975, in which he won 6 trophies: a title and 5 cups of Romania

Lajos Sătmăreanu had a collection performance in front of Brazil, at CM 1970

Representative remains the performance that Lajos Sătmăreanu had in front of Brazil, at the 1970 World Cup, in the match in which Pele's national defeated us with 3-2. Sătmăreanu was 26 years old in the summer of 1970, and in front of the Brazilians recorded top parameters, according to the analysis that GSP presented in 2022 within the series “History La Report”. He had played in Oradea and Târgu Mureș before coming to Steaua.

The right -handed defender caught an exceptional day in front of Brazil:

• Has the highest index: 227. It is followed by Dembrovschi (221), Liță Dumitru (196), Dumitrache (190), Dinu and Nunweiller, both 184;
• It had no opponent in front of which to go out in the direct duels. On Tostao it was clear, score 3-0, with the extreme left Paulo Cesar was on plus, score 5-4;
• The highest percentage of the duels won: 67%;
• recovered most balloonsno less than 9;
• had the second largest volume of distributed passes, 46, a high level for a band player;
• He gave 4 centerings, under the conditions in which the total of Romania's centering in that match was 6;
• offered 6 good passes in Brazil's boxover 40% of the total of those that Romania had in the surface of adverse punishment;
• He succeeded, after Dembrovschi, most dribbling, 3;
• offered a goal pass;
• However, it was wrong with the 2-0 goal, being surpassed by Paulo Cesar, who focused on Jairzinho's success

May God rest in peace!