Dumitru Antonescu

Dumitru Antonescu
Personal information
Date of birth (1945-03-25)25 March 1945
Place of birth Constanța, Romania
Date of death 25 April 2016(2016-04-25) (aged 71)
Place of death Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1957–1965 Electrica Constanța
1965–1966 Steaua București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1983 FC Constanța[a] 390 (12)
1979 → Șoimii Cernavodă (loan)
International career
1972–1974 Romania 13 (0)
Managerial career
1985–1987 Dunărea Călărași
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dumitru Antonescu (25 March 1945 – 25 April 2016) was a Romanian football player.

Club career

Dumitru 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, before returning to play at senior level for his hometown team FC Constanța, making his Divizia A debut on 15 February 1967 in a match which ended with a 1–0 victory against Petrolul Ploiești.[1][2][3][4] In his 17 seasons spent at FC Constanța which include three Divizia B seasons, the highlights were a fourth position at the end of the 1966–67 season and a personal record of seven goals scored 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, making his last appearance in the competition on 24 November 1982 in a 1–1 with Dinamo București.[1][5] 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.[7] 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, dying on 25 April 2016 in a hospital from Bucharest.[2][3][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 victory against 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 with Denmark at the Euro 1976 qualifiers.[9]

Honours

FC Constanța

Individual

Notes

  1. ^ The statistics for the 1978–79, 1979–80 and 1980–81 Divizia B seasons are unavailable.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Dumitru Antonescu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ a b Iancu, Mariana (10 April 2013). "Dumitru Antonescu former glory of Farul lives just with a 800 lei pension". reporterntv.ro. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Doliu în fotbalul românesc. Dumitru Antonescu, legenda Farului Constanța, a murit" [Mourning in Romanian football. Dumitru Antonescu, the legend of the Farul Constanța, died] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Constanța își plânge un simbol. S-a stins din viață Dumitru Antonescu, fundașul Farului cu 400 de meciuri în Liga 1" [Constanța cries after the death of a symbol. Dumitru Antonescu, the Farul defender with 400 matches in Liga 1, passed away] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 26 April 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Adevărata legendă a Constanței" [The true legend of Constanța] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Romania - Player of the Year Awards". Rsssf.org. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Imagine rară cu fotbalistul emblemă al Farului. Dumitru Antonescu, în tricoul echipei Şoimii Cernavodă. Momente memorabile!" [Rare image with the emblematic football player of the Farul. Dumitru Antonescu, in the jersey of Şoimii Cernavodă. Memorable moments!] (in Romanian). Ziuaconstanta.ro. 9 August 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Culea-Pană-Simion, apărare de beton" ["Culea-Pană-Simion, concrete defense"] (in Romanian). Liga2.prosport.ro. 27 June 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  9. ^ a b "Dumitru Antonescu". European Football. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Romania 2-0 Albania". European Football. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  11. ^ Siminiceanu, Radu (10 January 2004). "Romania National Team 1970-1979 - Details". RSSSF.
  12. ^ "Sandu și ceilalți "eroi" din 1973, despre culisele victoriei istorice cu 9-0 cu Finlanda" [Sandu and the other "heroes" from 1973, about the backstage of the historic 9-0 victory over Finland] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2021.