Marin Tufan

Marin Tufan
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-10-16) 16 October 1942
Place of birth Istria, Romania
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position Striker
Youth career
Cimentul Medgidia
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1963 Cimentul Medgidia
1963–1973 Farul Constanța 230 (62)
1973–1977 SC Tulcea 62 (17)
Total 292 (79)
International career
1967 Romania B[1] 1 (0)
1969–1970 Romania 2 (0)
Managerial career
1977–1978 Granitul Babadag
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17 July 2018

Marin Tufan (born 16 October 1942) is a Romanian former football player who played as a striker, spending most of his career playing for Farul Constanța.[2][3]

Club career

Tufan (third from left) during a Farul training session in 1963
Tufan (second from right, front row) with Farul Constanța in 1965

Tufan was born on 16 October 1942 in Istria, Constanța, Romania, growing up in Sinoe.[2][3][4] He began playing football at age 18 as a junior at Cimentul Medgidia where his first coach was Kostas Choumis.[2][3] Shortly afterwards he started to play for the senior squad of Cimentul in Divizia C.[2][3][4] He was noticed in a friendly against Farul Constanța by the opponent's coach Petre Steinbach, who brought him to the club, giving him his Divizia A debut on 15 September 1963 in the last 20 minutes of a 2–0 away loss to UTA Arad.[2][3][4] In the following game, a 4–0 home win over Știința Timișoara he scored a double, and his offensive partner, Constantin Dinulescu, also scored a brace.[2][3][4] Over the course of ten seasons, Tufan appeared in 230 Divizia A matches, being the all-time Divizia A top-scorer of Farul with 62 goals.[2][3][4] The highlight of this period was a fourth place while working with coach Virgil Mărdărescu at the end of the 1966–67 season.[2][3][4][5] In the 1968–69 season, he netted a career-best of 13 goals.[2][3][4] He made his last appearance in the competition on 13 May 1973 in a 0–0 draw against Petrolul Ploiești.[2][3][4] Tufan ended his career in 1977 after playing a few seasons in Divizia B at SC Tulcea.[2][3][4]

International career

Tufan played two games for Romania, both under coach Angelo Niculescu, making his debut on 14 May 1969 in a 1–0 away victory against Switzerland in the 1970 World Cup qualifiers.[6][7] His second game for the national team was a 1–1 friendly draw against Yugoslavia.[6]

Tufan was selected by Niculescu to be part of Romania's squad for the 1970 World Cup, but did not play there.[2][6][8] For the participation in that tournament he was decorated by President of Romania Traian Băsescu on 25 March 2008 with the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – (The Medal "The Sportive Merit") class III.[9][10]

Managerial career

After he ended his playing career, Tufan had a short managerial career at Granitul Babadag, helping the club earn promotion to Divizia C.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Marin Tufan profile". 11v11. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Poveşti şi dezvăluiri ale golgeterului all-time al "marinarilor". Marin Tufan a înscris şase goluri în meciul care l-a adus la Farul" [Stories and revelations of the all-time goal scorer of the "sailors". Marin Tufan scored six goals in the match that brought him to Farul] (in Romanian). Ziuaconstanta.ro. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Atacul de vis. Marin Tufan, golgeterul all-time al FC Farul Constanța, a împlinit 78 de ani" [The dream attack. Marin Tufan, the all-time goal scorer of FC Farul Constanța, turned 78 years old] (in Romanian). Ziuaconstanta.ro. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Marin Tufan at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  5. ^ "Ce s-a ales din echipa de aur Farului de acum 45 de ani" [What happened to Farul's golden team from 45 years ago] (in Romanian). Ziuaconstanta.ro. 9 October 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
  6. ^ a b c "Marin Tufan". European Football. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Switzerland 0-1 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  8. ^ "România la CM 1970. Enigma Dobrin" [România la WC 1970. The Dobrin enigma] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 2 June 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  9. ^ "DECRET privind conferirea Ordinului și Medaliei Meritul Sportiv" (PDF). Monitorul Oficial al României Nr. 241. 28 March 2008. p. 3. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Decorarea unor personalități ale fotbalului românesc". Administrația Prezidențială. 25 March 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
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