Ion Pârcălab (born 5 November 1941) is a Romanian former football player and manager. Club career Ion Pârcălab, nicknamed "The Carpathian Arrow" by foreign experts, started his senior career at UTA Arad, making his Divizia A debut on 24 May 1959 in a 2–1 loss against Jiul Petroșani. In 1961 he went to play for Dinamo București where in his first four seasons spent at the club, he won four consecutive Divizia A titles in the first he contributed with 7 goals scored in 24 matches, in the second he played 21 games and scored 7 goals, in the third he made 25 appearances with 10 goals scored and in the last one he scored 8 goals in 20 matches. He also won two Cupa României in 1964 and 1968, at the first one scoring a goal in the final which ended 5–3 against rivals Steaua București and in 1965, he was awarded the title "Best Football Player" in Romania. Pârcălab's last Divizia A appearance took place on 19 July 1970, playing for Dinamo in a 1–1 against Politehnica Iași, having a total of played 232 matches played in the competition in which he scored 66 goals, also appearing in a total of 20 matches in which he scored 5 goals in European competitions. Transfer at Nîmes During Romania's communist era, transfers of Romanian footballers outside the country were rarely allowed, but in June 1970 dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu went on a visit in Nîmes where he was invited by the communist mayor of the town Georges Pompidou. At that meeting they also talked about football and Pompidou complained about the poor results of the local football team, Nîmes Olympique so Ceaușescu told him that he is going to send two Romanian footballers to the club. Some French people were sent to see the 1970 Cupa României final which was won with 2–1 by Steaua București against Dinamo București and they selected Florea Voinea from Steaua București and Pârcălab from Dinamo to come and play for Nîmes Olympique, where in the 1971–72 season they helped the team finish second in the championship, each of them scoring 11 goals. International career Ion Pârcălab played 26 games and scored three goals at international level for Romania, making his debut on 8 October 1961 under coach Gheorghe Popescu I in a friendly which ended with a 4–0 victory against Turkey. His following game was