Club: FC Steaua Bucureşti
Number: TBA
Position: AM*, CM, SM
Nationality: Romanian
Age: 22 (29.03.1988)

Foot: R
Side: B

Length: 171
Weight: 62

Attack: 70
Defence: 47
Balance: 70
Stamina: 81
Top Speed: 84
Acceleration: 83
Response: 75
Agility: 84
Dribble Accuracy: 82
Dribble Speed: 82
Short Pass Accuracy: 80
Short Pass Speed: 78
Long Pass Acc.: 78
Long Pass Speed: 76
Shot Accuracy: 69
Shot Power: 81
Shot Technique: 68
Free Kick Accuracy: 74
Curling: 78
Header: 64
Jump: 72
Technique: 82
Aggression: 78
Mentality: 73
Keeper Skills:
Team Work: 77
Injury Tolerance: C
Condition/Fitness: 5
Weak Foot Accuracy: 7
Weak Foot frequency: 5
Consistency: 4

Player Index

P07 - Mazing Run

Stars:

* Dribble
* Passing




Andrei Ionescu is a promising Craiova product who spent a time of his youth career as captain of the U-sides of the PSV academy. Hailed as a possible successor of Hagi, like many others too, he was rather disappointing when he returned to the Romanian stage. 1st some dilemmas regarding his father who managed to burn too many bridges at his hometown, Ionescu was close to be banned from playing football as he broke his contract with his former club, Universitatea Craiova. In the summer of 2008, Becali managed to sign the youngster after being advised by the headcoach of the Romanian NT, Victor Piturca to sign him as he could possibly be the future of Romanian football. Ilie Balaci, former mentor and general director of Uni Craiova, said that Ionescu is technically a superb player but lacks the necessary qualities to play at a top level team. His mind isn't fully developed yet to deal with the task of making a game, he's physically weak, injury prone and doesn't seem to find the back of the net too often. Time will tell how he'll develop.

considering Iasi I believe they deserve to be better than they are now but they are always on the verge of the financial collapse which is a shame considering the great fans they have. I really rate Grigoras as a coach though and he can definately work with young talents which is the current core of the team. I must say that Badea looked really good in the 1st 2 games for Iasi and was the main threat who worked like a mad man. Regarding Bujor, he's a good forward but lacks the technique to beat his man regularly... he's more of a CF than winger imo.

back at Steaua for now

will be loaned to turkish 2nd division side "Mersin Idmanyurdu"

That's absolutely devastating for me.

loaned to Mersin Idmanyurdu

heart breaking

well well... here comes the new wonderkid of 1st division...

So strange that a competent starlet like Ionescu loaned out to club like Mersin Idmanyurdu.

well Beckham has been loaned to a 2nd division team too (Preston North End) when he was young

and btw how is this player ? a really good prospect ?

he got loaned there because of this Yuksel who used to be the physical preparator of Steaua Buc.

He's a very talented player with a very difficult past despite his age. He was considered one of the biggest prospects at PSV but various injuries and his father's conflict with Uni Craiova got him to Steaua Bucuresti. He 1st got chances but after Bergodi got fired the new coach didn't care about promoting youngstars so he got loaned to iasi where he got injured again. I'd have thought that Piturca (the newer new coach) would count on him since he recommanded Ionescu to Steaua but i dont know. Ionescu to me looks like the player who is close to the next step, either becoming a great playmaker or another technical but useless player. Nonetheless he played regularly for the U21 and did OK there. He just lacks the physique and attacking intelligence to be an option for Steaua and his hype kind of died down too.

Having said that, I'm sure the Craiova fans are absolutely delighted about his "evolution" as they predicted that Ionescu would fail at the end and now they seem to be proven right.

wow, Mersin is my hometown. I live this city. I was heard him from FM. He shown a wonderkid many times. I hope watch to him next year.

He's no wonderkid but he's fairly technical and his passing is quite accurate. He still has lots of flaws in his game and didn't really improve over the last couple of seasons despite a few decent stints.

the deal fell through

Number : 19
Shirtname : AN. Ionescu