Dumitru Antonescu
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 25 March 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Constanța, Romania | ||
| Date of death | 25 April 2016 (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.
Antonescu was born on 25 March 1945 in Constanța, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1957 at local club Electrica, after four years moving to 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 in fourth place.[1][2][3][4] In his 17 seasons spent at FC Constanța, the highlights were another fourth place in the 1973–74 season and a personal record of seven goals netted in the 1976–77 season.[1] He managed to become the club's all-time leader of Divizia A appearances with 390 games in which he scored 12 goals.[1][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 draw 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 in the 1974 World Cup qualifiers.[9][10][11] In these qualifiers he appeared in a total of five matches, including Romania's biggest ever victory, a 9–0 win over Finland.[9][12] He also played in a 3–1 victory against Greece in the 1973–76 Balkan Cup.[9] His last game for the national team was a 0–0 draw against Denmark in the Euro 1976 qualifiers.[9]
Managerial career
After he ended his playing career, Antonescu was coach from 1985 until 1987 at Dunărea Călărași.[2][13] He then 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]