[1][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] After one season he was transferred by Dinamo București who only used him two weeks later as a exchange player for fellow goalkeeper Spiridon Niculescu from Argeș Pitești.

[1][4][5][9][10] At Argeș he spent two seasons, making his debut in European competitions, playing all six games from the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, as the team eliminated Sevilla and Toulouse in the first two rounds, being defeated in the third round with 1–0 on aggregate by Dinamo Zagreb who eventually won the competition, also earning a helping the team earn a runner-up position in his second season spent there.

[1][4][5][6][7][8][9][15] During his period of four seasons spent with The Military Men he also played four games in the 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup campaign, as the team reached the quarter-finals by eliminating Hibernians and Barcelona, being eliminated after 1–1 on aggregate on the away goal rule by Bayern Munich when he was congratulated for the way he defended his goal post after the 0–0 from the second leg by the Germans goalkeeper Sepp Maier.

[1][4][5][6][7][8] As with Bacău, he helped the team from Târgoviște gain promotion to Divizia A after one season where he would have the best period in his career, managing to become the first goalkeeper to earn the Romanian Footballer of the Year award in 1978.

[1][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][18][19] An important match which helped him achieve this performance was keeping a clean sheet in a 0–0 against Universitatea Craiova for which he received a 10 in the Sportul newspaper.