Emil Dumitriu (born 5 November 1942), commonly known as Nichi Dumitru or Dumitriu II, is a Romanian former

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who played as a

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Club career

Emil "Nichi" Dumitriu was born on 5 November 1942 in

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, Romania, starting to play youth level football in 1957 at Locomotiva București, afterwards moving at Progresul CPCS București. He made his

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debut on 25 March 1962, playing for

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in a 3–2 victory against

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. In the following season he played in the first half at Viitorul București, moving in the second half at

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. During his period spent at

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, he made a successful couple in the team's offence with Ion Ionescu, winning the first league title from the club's history in the 1966–67 season in which he was used by coach

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in 26 matches in which he scored 12 goals, also winning two

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. He suffered a lung illness which kept him off the field for one year and a half, being taken by coach

at Steagul Roșu Brașov, trying to help him relaunch his career. In 1971 Dumitriu went to play for one season at

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, afterwards returning for two seasons at

where he made his last

appearance on 10 March 1974 in a 2–0 away loss against Argeș Pitești, having a total of 235 matches in which he scored 68 goals in the competition, also having 3 appearances in the

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and one in the

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. Emil Dumitriu ended his career by playing three seasons in

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, the first one at

Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea was a football club based in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Vâlcea County, Romania. It was founded in 1946 and dissolved in 2004. It won one Romanian Cup, in 1973. History In 1946 ''Vâlceana'' appeared in the Third Division. In ...

and the other two at Progresul București, helping both teams earn promotion to

International career

Emil Dumitriu played 6 games and scored 3 goals at international level for

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, making his debut under coach

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on 23 October 1965 in a 2–1 away loss against

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at the 1966 World Cup qualifiers. He played two games at the Euro 1968 qualifiers in which he scored a hat-trick in a 7–0 victory against

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after which the opponents captain

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said:"Dumitriu's game is simply confusing. He is an opponent who creates nightmares". He made his last appearance for the national team on 5 June 1968 in a friendly which ended 0–0 against

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. Emil Dumitriu also played 13 games in which he scored 4 goals for Romania U23 and appeared in a friendly game for Romania's Olympic football team which ended with a 2–1 away victory against

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, being part of the squad that participated at the

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from

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where he did not play in any games as he got injured in a training session by teammate

Mircea Petescu Mircea Petescu (15 May 1942 – 16 December 2018) was a Romanian professional footballer and coach.Dumitru Dumitriu Dumitru Dumitriu (born 19 November 1945 in Bucharest), commonly known as Țiți Dumitru or Dumitriu III, is a retired Romanian footballer and coach. He is the younger brother of Emil Dumitriu ''(Dumitriu II)'' who was an International footballer ...

(''Dumitriu III''), who also appeared internationally for Romania and played for

before becoming a manager, and

Constantin Dumitriu Constantin Dumitriu (born 14 November 1953), commonly known as Dumitriu IV is a Romanian former football midfielder. He is the younger brother of Emil Dumitriu ''(Dumitriu II)'' and Dumitru Dumitriu ''(Dumitriu III)'' who were international foo ...

(''Dumitriu IV'') who won the Romanian championship with Steaua București. In 1987, he settled in

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, being married with a Greek woman.

Honours

Rapid București *

: 1966–67 *

: 1963–64, 1964–66 Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea *

: 1973–74 Progresul București *

: 1975–76

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dumitriu, Emil 1942 births Living people Footballers from Bucharest Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Romania Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Men's association football forwards CSM Jiul Petroșani players FC Rapid București players FC Brașov (1936) players FC Dinamo București players FC Progresul București players Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea players Liga I players Liga II players