Last update 15 May, 2025 by Alberto Llopis
They said that Sabin Ilia, the smallest of 2 brothers was the best. Surely the one who sold it like this, he was a great representative. And the end of the 90's in Spanish football, was marked by the arrival of a number of foreign players who, attracted by the “Bosman Law” and the television bubble era, they decided that the League, It was the most suitable place to develop their skills. Some congealed and others do not.
Unfortunately, These seconds were the most abounded. Football clubs, they were filled with representatives vultures looking for prey which to try to place players, were worth or not. This could be the case of one of the Ilie brothers. A player of a very very very doubtful level.
Sabin Ilie and how a plug can take you to “play” in a big league
In the summer of 1998, preceded Valencia reached the final great season of his brother Adrian “The cobra” Ilie, this brother, Sabin. Our protagonist was a Romanian-born striker 1975, to whom he was sold upon his arrival who was the better of the two Ilie. The good one was his representative.
To give you an idea of their level, He played in the not inconsiderable figure of 20 equipment, going through more pain than glory for all of them. His achievements in Valencia of that time were three games in the Intertoto Cup in which he left substitute and a taronja trophy match.
In those twenty teams, Only Valencia CF could be highlighted, thanks to his brother who did have talent and a declining Steaua de Bucharest. Even so, the Mestalla team that had signed him in an incomprehensible way for four seasons, it had to swallow up 2002, giving it up 7 times in 4 seasons, since one season he even played for three teams because they got rid of him as soon as they saw that Sabin 'La Cobrita’ Ilie, He had little or nothing to do with his brother Adrian.
As null and void was his trip to Valencia in the league and we could not find pretty pictures of him playing with valencianista casaca. And we can say that he only played in cromos. But it can always be said that the Ilie brothers They were at Valencia CF.