Mircea Constantinescu

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]

Mircea Constantinescu
Personal information
Date of birth (1945-02-25) 25 February 1945
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

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 7 seasons at Politehnica, a period in which the club had a relegation to Divizia B, but he helped the club gain the promotion back to Divizia A after one season and in 1970 he went to play for Dinamo București where he won the title in his first season, contributing with 27 matches played.[2][4] He won two more titles, at the first contributing with 10 appearances and at the second with 32 games played.[2][4] After 7 seasons spent with The Red Dogs in which he played a total of 110 matches and appeared in 11 European competitions games (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] After he retired from playing football, Constantinescu became a referee, arbitrating matches in Romania's top-league Divizia A.[4][5]

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.[6][7] His second game was a 2–1 away victory against Greece.[6][8]

Honours

Politehnica Iași

Dinamo București

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". Dinamo.webstyler. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  5. "Mircea Constantinescu referee profile". Labtof. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  6. "Mircea Constantinescu". European Football. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  7. "Uruguay - Romania 1:1". European Football. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  8. "Greece - Romania 1:2". European Football. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
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