Constantin Frățilă

Constantin Frățilă (1 October 1942 – 21 October 2016) was a Romanian football striker and coach.

Constantin Frățilă
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-10-01)1 October 1942
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Date of death 21 October 2016(2016-10-21) (aged 74)
Place of death Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1957–1958 Recolta București
1958–1960 Uzinele Vasile Roaită
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1960–1970 Dinamo București 168 (74)
1970–1972 Argeș Pitești 46 (20)
1972–1973 Sportul Studențesc București 2 (0)
1973–1974 Omonia Nicosia
1974 Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea 5 (1)
1975 Sirena București
Total 219 (95)
International career
1966–1967[1] Romania 7 (7)
Managerial career
1982 Dinamo Victoria București
1984–85 FC Baia Mare
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Constantin Frățilă was born on 1 October 1942 in Bucharest, Romania and started to play football in 1957, at junior level at Recolta București, after one year moving to Uzinele Vasile Roaită.[2] He started his senior career playing for Dinamo București, making his Divizia A debut on 16 April 1961 in a 6–0 victory against Minerul Lupeni in which he scored a hat-trick, having a total of 7 goals in 7 appearances until the end of his first season spent at the club.[2] In the following four seasons he helped the club win four consecutive Divizia A titles, in the first he contributed with 5 goals scored in 19 matches, in the second he played 15 games and scored 9 goals, in the third he made 26 appearances with 19 goals scored, being also the top-scorer of the league alongside Cornel Pavlovici and in the last one he scored 11 goals in 23 matches.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] He also won two Cupa României with The Red Dogs, scoring one goal in the 5–3 victory from the 1964 Cupa României Final against rival Steaua București and played in 11 European Cup matches in which he scored 7 goals and one game in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, in the 1965–66 European Cup edition he scored two goals against Denmark's champion, Boldklubben 1909 which helped the team advance to the next phase where they were eliminated by Inter Milan against whom he also scored a goal after which he said:"I scored a goal against Inter, can you believe it? I scored against the best defense in the world. It is the biggest satisfaction of my life" and he also scored a goal in a 5–3 loss against Real Madrid in the 1963–64 European Cup edition.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][11][12][13] In a 1967 Bucharest Cup match against Steaua he suffered a injury which kept him off the field for one year and a half.[3][8] In 1970 he went to play for Argeș Pitești where in his second season he helped the team win the Divizia A title, contributing with 7 goals scored in 17 matches.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] After a season spent at Sportul Studențesc București, he went to play in Cyprus in the 1973–74 season alongside fellow Romanian Mihai Mocanu, winning the title and the cup.[2][14][15] He returned to Romania at Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea where he made his last Divizia A appearance on 20 November 1974 in a 1–0 victory against Sportul Studențesc, ending his career in 1975 at Divizia C team, Sirena București.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Constantin Frățilă died on 21 October 2016 at age 74.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

International career

Constantin Frățilă played 7 games in which he scored 7 goals at international level for Romania, making his debut under coach Ilie Oană on 2 November 1966 in a 4–2 victory against Switzerland in which he scored a hat-trick at the Euro 1968 qualifiers.[16][17] He played two more games at the Euro 1968 qualifiers in which he scored a double in a 5–1 victory against Cyprus.[16] Frățilă made his last appearance for the national team on 22 March 1967 in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 victory against France in which he scored a goal.[16]

International goals
Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after each Constantin Frățilă goal.[16]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.2 November 1966Stadionul Republicii, București, Romania  Switzerland2–04–2Euro 1968 qualifiers
2.3–0
3.4–0
4.17 November 1966Stadionul Petrolul, Ploiești, Romania Poland3–04–3Friendly
5.3 December 1966GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus Cyprus3–15–1Euro 1968 qualifiers
6.4–1
7.22 March 1967Parc des Princes, Paris, France France1–02–1Friendly

Managerial career

Constantin Frățilă started coaching in 1976 at Dinamo București's center of children and juniors, afterwards coaching senior teams Dinamo Victoria București which he helped earn promotion to Divizia B and FC Baia Mare which he coached in the 1984–85 Divizia A season.[4][7][9][18]

Honours

Player

Dinamo București

Argeș Pitești

Omonia Nicosia

Individual

Manager

Dinamo Victoria București

References
  1. "Constantin Fratila – Goals in International Matches". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
  2. Constantin Frățilă at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  3. "Constantin Frățilă a murit. "Nea Titi" a fost unul dintre cei mai mari dinamoviști din istorie" [Constantin Frațilă died. "Nea Titi" was one of the greatest Dinamo players in history] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  4. "Doliu in fotbalul romanesc: Constantin Fratila, unul dintre cei mai mari fotbalisti din istoria lui Dinamo, a murit la 74 de ani" [Mourning in Romanian football: Constantin Fratila, one of the greatest footballers in the history of Dinamo, died at the age of 74] (in Romanian). Sport.ro. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  5. "Din nou doliu la Dinamo! Pierdere grea pentru fotbalul românesc: s-a stins Constantin Frățilă" [Again mourning at Dinamo! Heavy loss for Romanian football: Constantin Frațilă died] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  6. "A murit Constantin Frățilă, omul care a luat 4 titluri la rând cu Dinamo" [Constantin Frațilă, the man who won 4 titles in a row with Dinamo, died] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  7. "Constantin Frățilă, fost campion al României cu Dinamo, a murit la 74 de ani" [Constantin Frațilă, former champion of Romania with Dinamo, died at the age of 74] (in Romanian). Huff.ro. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  8. "70 de ani și o dorință! Titi Frățilă speră să scape, în câteva săptămâni, de problemele de sănătate" [70 years and a wish! Titi Frațilă hopes to get rid of his health problems in a few weeks] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  9. "Constantin Fratila" (in Romanian). Dinamo.webstyler.ro. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  10. "Top Scorers". www.romaniansoccer.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  11. "Romanian Cup – Season 1963–1964". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  12. "Constantin Frățilă - Champions League 1965/1966". WorldFootball. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  13. "Constantin Frățilă - Champions League 1963/1964". WorldFootball. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  14. Constantin Frățilă at National-Football-Teams.com
  15. "Vezi ce-i aşteaptă pe cei de la Vaslui în returul cu Omonia: «Infern în tribune»" [See what awaits the people from Vaslui in the return leg with Omonia: "Hell in the stands"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 31 July 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  16. "Constantin Frățilă". European Football. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  17. "Romania 4-2 Switzerland". European Football. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  18. "Constantin Frățilă profile". Labtof. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
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