Mircea Constantinescu

Mircea Constantinescu

Personal information
Date of birth	(1945-02-25) 25 February 1945 (age 79)
Place of birth	Crăiești, Romania[1]
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1963–1970	Politehnica Iași	169	(0)
1969–1980	Dinamo București	110	(0)
1980–1982	SC Bacău	31	(0)
Total		310	(0)
International career
1967	Romania	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mircea Constantinescu (born 25 February 1945) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Politehnica Iași, Dinamo București and SC Bacău.[2][3]

Club career

Mircea Constantinescu was born on 25 February 1945 in Crăiești, Romania, and made his Divizia A debut on 20 October 1963, playing for Politehnica Iași in a 5–3 away loss against Progresul București.[2] He spent seven seasons at Politehnica, a period in which the club had a relegation to Divizia B, but he stayed with the team, helping it gain promotion back to the first league after one season.[2][4] In 1970 he went to play for Dinamo București, winning the title in his first season spent at the club, coaches Nicolae Dumitru and Traian Ionescu giving him 27 appearances, also reaching the 1971 Cupa României final where he played all the minutes in the 3–2 loss with rivals Steaua București.[2][4][5][6] Constantinescu won two more titles with The Red Dogs, in the first he worked with coach Ion Nunweiller who used him in 10 games and at the second he played 32 matches under the guidance of Dumitru.[2][4][5] After seven seasons spent with The Red Dogs in which he also appeared in 11 games in European competitions (including four matches in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup), Constantinescu ended his career by spending one season at SC Bacău, making his last Divizia A appearance on 26 June 1977 in a 2–0 home victory against Sportul Studențesc București, having a total of 287 matches played in the competition.[2][4]

International career

Mircea Constantinescu played two friendly matches for Romania, making his debut under coach Bazil Marian in a 1–1 against Uruguay, which took place in Montevideo on Estadio Gran Parque Central.[7][8] His second game was a 2–1 away victory against Greece.[7][9]

Refereeing career

After he retired from playing football, Constantinescu became a referee, arbitrating matches in Romania's top-league Divizia A.[4]

Honours

Politehnica Iași

• Divizia B: 1967–68[2]

Dinamo București

• Divizia A: 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75[2]
• Cupa României runner-up: 1970–71[6]

References

1. Mircea Constantinescu at WorldFootball.net
2. Mircea Constantinescu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
3. Mircea Constantinescu at National-Football-Teams.com
4. "Mircea Constantinescu" (in Romanian). Dinamo.webstyler. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
5. "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
6. "Romanian Cup - Season 1970 - 1971". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
7. "Mircea Constantinescu". European Football. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
8. "Uruguay - Romania 1:1". European Football. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
9. "Greece - Romania 1:2". European Football. Retrieved 1 July 2021.