Ion Voinescu

Ion Voinescu was a Romanian football goalkeeper who competed at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. He had a long club career, lasting from 1945 until 1963, playing initially with Carmen București for one year, and was briefly with Solvay Uioara, RATA Târgu-Mureș, and Metalul București, before spending the last 12 years of his career with Steaua București. Voinescu earned 22 caps with the Romanian national team. He was approached by both Arsenal and Vasco da Gama, but in his era the Communist restrictions preventing him playing for those teams.

In his career Voinescu won six Romanian League titles (1951-53, 1956, 1960-61) and five Romanian Cup titles (1950-52, 1955, 1962), all except the 1950 Romanian Cup with Steaua București. After he retired from playing, he was a goalkeeper coach for Steaua București before retiring from coaching in the late 1980s.