Dumitru Antonescu
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Dumitru Antonescu (25 March 1945 – 25 April 2016) was a Romanian football player.
Club career
Antonescu was born on 25 March 1945 in Constanța, Romania, starting to play football at junior level in 1957 at local club Electrica, after four years moving at Steaua București for one year.[1][2][3] Afterwards he returned to play at senior level for his hometown team FC Constanța, making his Divizia A debut on 15 February 1967 under coach Virgil Mărdărescu in a 1–0 victory against Petrolul Ploiești, the team finishing the season on the fourth place.[1][2][3][4] In his 17 seasons spent at FC Constanța, the highlights were another fourth place at the end of the 1973–74 season and a personal record of seven goals netted in the 1976–77 season, managing to become the clubs all-time leader of Divizia A appearances with 390 games in which he scored 12 goals.[5] During his years spent with The Sailors, the team also suffered a relegation at the end of the 1977–78 season but Antonescu stayed with the club, helping it earn promotion back to the first league three years later.[1] For the way he played in 1973, Antonescu was placed fourth in the ranking for the Romanian Footballer of the Year award.[6] In 1979 he spent a short period playing for Șoimii Cernavodă in Divizia C.[1][7] He made his last Divizia A appearance on 24 November 1982 in Farul's 1–1 against Dinamo București.[1][8]
International career
Antonescu played 13 games for Romania making his debut on 29 October 1972 under coach Angelo Niculescu in a 2–0 home win over Albania at the 1974 World Cup qualifiers in which he appeared in a total of five matches, including Romania's biggest ever victory, a 9–0 against Finland.[9][10][11][12] He also played in a 3–1 victory against Greece at the 1973–76 Balkan Cup and his last game for the national team was a 0–0 against Denmark at the Euro 1976 qualifiers.[9]
Managerial career
After he ended his playing career, Antonescu was coach from 1985 until 1987 at Dunărea Călărași, after which he worked at Farul Constanța's youth center for almost three decades, spending the last year of his life as a technical director at ACS Prejmer.[2][3][13]
Death
Antonescu died on 25 April 2016 in a hospital from Bucharest at age 71.[1][2][3]
Honours
FC Constanța
Individual
- Romanian Footballer of the Year (fourth place): 1973[6]
Notes
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External links
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- 1945 births
- 2016 deaths
- Men's association football defenders
- Romanian men's footballers
- Romania men's international footballers
- FCV Farul Constanța players
- Liga I players
- Liga II players
- Liga III players
- Romanian football managers
- FC Dunărea Călărași managers
- Footballers from Constanța
- 20th-century Romanian sportsmen