Angelescu was born on 15 June 1946 in
Bucharest, Romania and began playing football in 1966 at
Divizia B club
Politehnica București. In 1968, Angelescu went to play for
Rapid București. Angelescu played for
The Railwaymen in a total of 14 games in European competitions. He also took part in the
1972–73 European Cup Winners' Cup campaign, playing four games, helping the team reach the quarter-finals, eliminating
Landskrona BoIS and
Rapid Wien, being knocked out by
Leeds United who reached the final. Rapid suffered relegation at the end of the
1973–74 season, but Angelescu stayed with the club, helping it earn promotion back to the first league after
one year. In 1976, Angelescu went for a three-season spell at
Corvinul Hunedoara. There, he made his last Divizia A appearance on 24 June 1979 in a 3–1 home win over
Politehnica Timișoara, totaling 279 matches with 11 goals in the competition. In 1979, Angelescu joined Divizia B club
Progresul București which he helped earn promotion to the first league after
one season at the expense of his former club, Rapid. However, Angelescu stayed at Divizia B level, returning to Rapid where he ended his career in the
1980–81 season. ==International career==