Dumitru Dumitriu

Dumitru Dumitriu

Dumitriu in 1968
Personal information
Date of birth	(1945-11-19) 19 November 1945
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Academica Clinceni (vice-president)
Youth career
1953–1964	Rapid București
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1964–1965	Metalul Târgoviște
1965–1968	Târgu Mureș12	22	(13)
1968–1972	Steaua București	90	(11)
1972–1973	Rapid București	27	(6)
1973–1974	Olimpia Satu Mare	25	(3)
1974–1975	Galați	28	(4)
1975–1977	ICSIM București
Total		192	(37)
International career
1967	Romania	1	(0)
Managerial career
1976–1977	ICSIM București (player-manager)
1977–1978	Rapid Fetești
1978–1980	CS Botoșani
1980–1982	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
1982–1984	Autobuzul București
1984–1986	Steaua Mizil
1987	Rulmentul Bârlad
1988–1990	Steaua București(assistant)
1990–1991	Romania U-21
1991–1992	Dacia Unirea Brăila
1992–1993	Steaua București(assistant)
1993–1994	Romania(assistant)
1994–1997	Steaua București
1997–1998	AEK Athens
1998	Apollon Limassol
1998–1999	Rapid București
1999–2000	Oțelul Galați
2000–2001	Rocar București
2001–2002	Panionios
2002	FCM Bacău
2003	Akratitos
2003–2004	Bihor Oradea
2004	Politehnica Timișoara
2005	FCSB
2006–2008	Prefab Moldelu(technical director)
2009–2010	FCSB II(technical director)
2010	Politehnica Iași
2011–2012	Inter Clinceni
2014–2015	Inter Clinceni
2015	FCSB
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

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 and champion of Romania with Rapid București and the elder brother of Constantin Dumitriu(Dumitriu IV) who won the Romanian championship with Steaua București.^[1][2]

Playing career

Dumitriu started his youth career with Rapid București and made his senior career debut with Metalul Târgoviște in 1964. After a year, he moved to ASA Târgu Mureș, where he spent three years. In 1968, he signed with Steaua București, where he played until 1972. In the same year he joined Bucharest city rivals Rapid București. He also played for Olimpia Satu Mare, FCM Galați and ICSIM București.

He won a cap for Romania in 1967.

Coaching career

After he quit playing in 1977, he became quickly a player/manager for ICSIM București, amongst others in the beginning he managed lower league sides such as Rapid Fetești, Autobuzul București, Steaua Mizil, and Rulmentul Bârlad.

The highlight of his career as a manager was with Steaua București, qualifying them three times in a row in the UEFA Champions League and also winning the Romanian First League in 1995, 1996 and 1997. In 1999 and 2005 he won the championship again, this time with Rapid București and then with FCSB, leading him to a total of 5 championships won.^[3] He also guided Steaua to two Romanian Cups in 1996 and 1997, and two Romanian Supercups in 1994 and 1995.

In 1994, he was the assistant coach to Anghel Iordănescu in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

In the 1997–98 season he reached the Cup Winners' Cupquarter-finals as AEK Athens manager, losing a semi-final place to Lokomotiv Moscow in the last minute of the second leg match.

Honours

Player

Steaua București

• Romanian Cup (3): 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71

Manager

Steaua București

• Romanian First League (4): 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97
• Romanian Cup (2): 1995–96, 1996–97
• Romanian Supercup (2): 1994, 1995

Rapid București

• Romanian First League (1): 1998–99

Rocar București

• Romanian Cup runner-up (1): 2000–01

FCSB

• Romanian First League (1): 2004–05

Notes

^1 The 1965–1966 appearances and goals made for ASA Târgu Mureş are unavailable. ^2 The 1966–1967 appearances made for ASA Târgu Mureş are unavailable.

References

1. "Remember. Hunedoreni la Campionatele Mondiale de fotbal (IV)" [Remember. Hunedoreni at the World Football Championships (IV)] (in Romanian). gazetadedimineata.ro. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
2. Cojocaru, Octavian (10 August 2017). "Frații Benzar sunt a noua pereche de frați din istoria "roș-albaștrilor". Unii n-au jucat niciodată împreună. Alții au evoluat doar în câte un singur joc!" [The Benzar brothers are the ninth pair of brothers in the history of the "red-blues". Some have never played together. Others have evolved in just one game!]. Libertatea (in Romanian). Retrieved 12 October 2018.
3. "Best of the best! Dan Petrescu, la un titlu de recordul absolut + doi jucători-simbol de la CFR Cluj, lângă Lăcătuș, Lucescu sau Tudorel Stoica" (in Romanian). gsp.ro. 15 May 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2022.

External links

• Dumitru Dumitriu at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
• Dumitru Dumitriu at National-Football-Teams.com
• Dumitru Dumitriu profileArchived 5 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine at SteauaFC.com (in Romanian)