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{{Short description|Romanian footballer (1943–2015)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Sorin Avram
| image = Sorin Avram 1965 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Avram in 1965 
| image_size = 180
| full_name = Sorin Aristotel Avram
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1943|3|29}}
| birth_place = [[Bacău]], Romania
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2015|9|29|1943|3|29}}
| death_place = 
| height = 1.72 m
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = 
| years1 = 1956&ndash;1959
| clubs1 = Letea Bacău
| caps1 = 
| goals1 = 
| years2 = 1959&ndash;1960
| clubs2 = [[FCM Bacău|Dinamo Bacău]]
| caps2 = 2
| goals2 = 0
| years3 = 1960&ndash;1961
| clubs3 = Steaua Roşie Bacău
| caps3 = 
| goals3 = 
| years4 = 1961&ndash;1962
| clubs4 = [[FCM Bacău|Dinamo Bacău]]
| caps4 = 16
| goals4 = 3
| years5 = 1962&ndash;1963
| clubs5 = [[Viitorul București]]
| caps5 = 11
| goals5 = 2
| years6 = 1963&ndash;1969
| clubs6 = [[FCSB|Steaua București]]
| caps6 = 124
| goals6 = 25
| years7 = 1969&ndash;1970
| clubs7 = [[Farul Constanţa]]
| caps7 = 18
| goals7 = 2
| years8 = 1970&ndash;1973
| clubs8 = [[FCM Bacău|Sport Club Bacău]]
| caps8 = 55
| goals8 = 6
| totalcaps = 226
| totalgoals = 38
| nationalyears1 = 
| nationalteam1 = [[Romania national under-23 football team|Romania U23]]
| nationalcaps1 = 5
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 1964&ndash;1967
| nationalteam2 = [[Romania national football team|Romania]]{{efn|name="ROM"|Including three appearances for Romania's Olympic team.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=949|title=Sorin Avram|publisher=European Football|access-date=26 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{NFT|37685}}</ref>}}
| nationalcaps2 = 12
| nationalgoals2 = 1
| medaltemplates = 
| manageryears1 = 1991
| managerclubs1 = [[FCM Bacău|FC Bacău]]
}}

'''Sorin Aristotel Avram''' (29 March 1943 – 29 September 2015) was a Romanian [[association football|football]] player and coach.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Un fost atacant important al Stelei a decedat astăzi |url=https://www.gsp.ro/fotbal/liga-1/un-fost-atacant-important-al-stelei-a-decedat-astazi-459780.html |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=GSP |language=ro}}</ref>

==Career==
He started his career in 1956, by joining the youth team of Letea Bacău. From there he moved to [[FCM Bacău|Dinamo Bacău]] in 1959 and then to Viitorul Bucharest in 1962.

Viitorul Bucharest was a project of the Romanian Football Federation in which they gather the best young players and formed a team which played in the Romanian top division, [[Divizia A]].

From Viitorul, Avram joined [[FCSB|Steaua București]] in 1963. Six years later he joined [[FC Farul Constanţa]] and then moved back to [[FCM Bacău]] in 1970, ended his career in 1973 at only 30.

He played a total of 226 games in [[Divizia A]], scoring 38 goals. He was Romanian football champion with [[FCSB|Steaua București]] in 1968 and won the [[Romanian Cup]], again with [[FC Steaua București|Steaua București]], in 1966 and 1967. He also won 12 caps for [[Romania national football team|Romania]], scoring one goal. He played for Romania at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Sports Reference|title=Sorin Avram Biography and Statistics|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/av/sorin-avram-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093101/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/av/sorin-avram-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2020|access-date=27 October 2009}}</ref>

As a coach, he was head-coach of [[FCM Bacău]] for nine games during the 1991–92 season.

==Honours==
'''Steaua București'''
*[[Romanian League]]: [[1967–68 Divizia A|1967–68]]
*[[Romanian Cup]]: [[1965–66 Cupa României|1965–66]], [[1966–67 Cupa României|1966–67]], [[1968–69 Cupa României|1968–69]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{RomanianSoccer|103/sorin-avram}}
* {{WorldFootball|sorin-avram}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|sorin-avram}}

{{Romania Squad 1964 Summer Olympics}}
{{FCM Bacău managers}}

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[[Category:1943 births]]
[[Category:2015 deaths]]
[[Category:Romanian men's footballers]]
[[Category:Footballers from Bacău]]
[[Category:Men's association football forwards]]
[[Category:Romania men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Olympic footballers for Romania]]
[[Category:Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Liga I players]]
[[Category:Liga II players]]
[[Category:FCSB players]]
[[Category:FCV Farul Constanța players]]
[[Category:FCM Bacău players]]
[[Category:Romanian football managers]]
[[Category:FCM Bacău managers]]
[[Category:20th-century Romanian sportsmen]]


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