“His teeth were flowing, you've never seen anything like that! Do you know what the referee wrote in the report?!”

Andone and Rednic were the only Dinamo players who, in the '80s, reached the two European semi-finals – '83-'84, in the Champions Cup (0-1, 1-2 with Liverpool), and '89-'90, in the Cup Winners' Cup (0-1, 0-1 with Anderlecht).

Which generation was older? Answers Andone: “I think the '84 one. We drew with Liverpool. Do you realize – the smallest player on the pitch to give you a header?! When you think… God rest “Babi” (no – Nelu Stănescu)he was holding Sammy Lee. He was small, but he had some legs, some legs… When you looked, you couldn't see him anymore. He took his face and scored.

And in Bucharest they were better, let's admit it”.

Ioan Andone, anecdotes from the historic “double” Dinamo – Liverpool: “He breaks Movilă's jaw and the referee writes that I committed repeated violent fouls!”

After 0-1 at “Anfield”, the “dogs” also lost in the second leg, score 1-2 in Bucharest. Andone was suspended for the second leg of the CCE semi-final, but not for the classic accumulation of yellow cards.

He went on to explain: “It's true that I got a yellow card at Liverpool, but I was already coming off a served suspension. What was the problem? Because the referee (no – Andre Daina from Switzerland) he wrote “violent attack” on the sheet!

He breaks Lica Movilă's jaw, he doesn't even give him a yellow card, even though Movilă's teeth were flowing, you've never seen anything like this (no – Movila took a punch to the face from Graeme Souness)and me, for a foul… It's true that it wasn't just one foul, actually there were about 5, but it was who who, with Dalglish and with Ian Rush…

I was with Sandu Nicolae: “Sandule, we don't change, let them come in front of us, let's not run after them”, because they were crossing, they were some players…

And I did a few fouls, but in those days you didn't get yellow so easily. That idiot referee wrote: “repeated violent fouls”. And UEFA suspends me. When I had to stay at two and 4 yellows, I stayed at 3! And that's why I didn't play in the return game”.

Andone admits that the English “were better in Bucharest, what else… They also won the Champions League. My God, what a match! But what a good generation we had, fighting, with Costel Orac, what a footballer!, with Mulțescu…”.

The team from '90 was a team built over time, by Mircea. And I think we could repeat the performance of Stella in '86 if the Revolution didn't come and the players didn't leave. We had a good team, me and Rednic were the oldest

– John Andone, on the GSP podcast “2 to 1”

• Dynamo '84: D. Moraru – Mărginean, I. Andone, Al. Nicolae, N. Stănescu – Rednic, Dragnea, Augustin – Țălnar, V. Turcu, Orac (Trainers: Dumitru Nicolae Nicușor and Cornel Dinu)

• Dynamo '90: B. Stelea – Mihăescu, I. Andone, Rednic, Klein – D. Lupu, I. Lupescu, Mateuț, D. Timofte – Vaișcovici, Răducioiu (Coach: Mircea Lucescu)

“2 to 1” with Ioan Andone, today, from 18:00. The main topics addressed:

• the terrible Steaua-Dinamo rivalry before '89;
• the violent conflict with Ion Crăciunescu;
• the curious absence from the Dinamo – Liverpool return;
• the offer to go to Steaua;
• name the greatest Romanian footballer you have seen;
• pomina episodes from the 1981 World Youth Championship;
• where Andone won a career best;
• the coach who shocked him: “A fool!”;
• what solutions does Ioan Andone have for the revival of Romanian football;
• how does he see the continuation of the Dinamo project;
• what does he say about Gică Hagi the selector.

About Ioan Andone:

• he started football at Corvinul, where he made his debut in the first league at the age of 19 (105 matches, 15 goals);
• became a symbol of Dinamo. Transferred in 1983, played for 7 seasons in red and white, collecting 255 matches and 35 goals in the first league;
• as a Dinamo player, he won two Romanian championship titles and 3 Cups, being part of the team that reached the semifinals of the European Champions Cup in 1984;
• from the position of coach of Dinamo, he won a champion title in the 2003-2004 season, 3 Romanian Cups (2003, 2004, 2005) and the Supercup, in 2005;
• the end of his football career caught him in Spain (Elche) and Holland (Heerenveen);
• he made 55 appearances for the national team (scoring two goals), participating in Euro 1984 and the 1990 World Cup;
• member of the famous national team that in 1981 won bronze at the World Youth Championship in Australia;
• as a technician, he also recorded remarkable success at CFR Cluj, which he made two-time champion – he also won a Cup – and with whom he participated in the Champions League groups;
• otherwise, he also coached clubs such as Sportul, U Cluj, Farul, Omonia Nicosia, CSKA Sofia, Rapid, Aktobe;
• in 2017 he retired from coaching, to occupy management positions at FC Voluntari and now at Corvinul Hunedoara.