Dumitru Antonescu (25 March 1945 – 25 April 2016) was a

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n 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 Constanța, after four years moving at Steaua București for one year, before returning to play at senior level for his hometown team

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, making his Divizia A debut on 15 February 1967 in a match which ended with a 1–0 victory against Petrolul Ploiești. In his 17 seasons spent at

which include three

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seasons, the highlight of this period was a fourth position at the end of the 1966–67 season and he managed 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 against

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. In 1979 he spent a short period playing for Șoimii Cernavodă in

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. After he ended his playing career, Antonescu was coach from 1985 until 1987 at

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, 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

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International career

Antonescu played 13 games for

making his debut on 29 October 1972 under coach Angelo Niculescu in a 2–0 home victory against

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at the 1974 World Cup qualifiers in which he appeared in a total of five matches, including

's biggest ever victory, a 9–0 against

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. He also played in a 3–1 victory against

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at the

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and his last game for the

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was a 0–0 against

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at the Euro 1976 qualifiers.

Honours

FC Constanța *

: 1980–81

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Antonescu, Dumitru 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