Biography
Rodion Cămătaru joined Universitatea in 1974 from Progresul Strehaia. He wore the white and blue for 12 seasons, winning everything there was to win with Știința: two league titles (1980, 1981) and four Romanian Cups (1977, 1978, 1981, 1983). In 1983 the French magazine Onze ranked him among Europe’s top ten strikers. In 1987 he won the European Golden Boot with 44 goals for Dinamo.
He played 422 club matches – 377 in Divizia A, 29 for Charleroi and 16 for Heerenveen – scoring 198 goals in Divizia A across 15 seasons. He made 47 appearances in European competitions with Universitatea Craiova and Dinamo București, scoring seven goals.
Cămătaru won 75 caps for Romania and scored 22 goals. He was in the Romania squad at the 1984 European Championship finals and the 1990 World Cup.
