Mircea Constantinescu Explained

Mircea Constantinescu
Birth Date:25 February 1945
Birth Place:Crăiești, Romania
Height:1.71 m
Position:Goalkeeper
Years1:1963–1970
Caps1:169
Goals1:0
Years2:1969–1980
Clubs2:Dinamo București
Caps2:110
Goals2:0
Years3:1980–1982
Clubs3:SC Bacău
Caps3:31
Goals3:0
Totalcaps:310
Totalgoals:0
Nationalyears1:1967
Nationalteam1:Romania
Nationalcaps1:2
Nationalgoals1:0

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

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. 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.[1] 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.[1] [2] [3] 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.[1] [2] 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.[1]

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.[4] [5] His second game was a 2–1 away victory against Greece.[4] [6]

Refereeing career

After he retired from playing football, Constantinescu became a referee, arbitrating matches in Romania's top-league Divizia A.[1]

Honours

Politehnica Iași

1967–68Dinamo București

1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mircea Constantinescu. Dinamo.webstyler. Romanian . https://web.archive.org/web/20200218224102/http://dinamo.webstyler.ro/mircea-constantinescu. 19 February 2020. 18 February 2020.
  2. Web site: Romania National Champions . RomanianSoccer. 1 October 2024.
  3. Web site: Romanian Cup - Season 1970 - 1971. RomanianSoccer. 1 October 2024.
  4. Web site: Mircea Constantinescu. European Football. 26 December 2019.
  5. Web site: Uruguay - Romania 1:1. European Football. 17 July 2020.
  6. Web site: Greece - Romania 1:2. European Football. 1 July 2021.