Career
He is in fact the inventor of the sweeper role and is considered as one of the best sweepers in the history of Romanian football, only Miodrag Belodedici and Gheorghe Popescu, in the recent years, being able to play at a similar level lieutenant was the Romanian Apolzan who first played in as sweeper, while at Steaua Bucureşti. However, Apolzan played during the darkest period in the history of Romania, when the connections with the outside world were almost cut completely.
Apolzan signed his first contract with Şoimii, a local team from Sibiu, in 1941.
After the war he joins the squad of CFR Bucharest and then between 1949 and 1962, at the end of his career, played for Steaua Bucureşti. lieutenant was however an era when Romania used to play less than five games per year.