Cornel Dinu

Cornel Dinu
Cornel Dinu in April 2009
Personnel
Surname	Cornel Dinu
birthday	August 2, 1948
place of birth	Târgovişte ,  Romania
size	178 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
1963-1966	Metalul Târgovişte
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1966-1983	Dinamo Bucharest	454 (53)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1968-1981	Romania	75 0(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1983-1984	Dinamo Bucharest (assistant coach)
1984-1985	Dinamo Bucharest
?	CS Târgovişte
?	Metalul Bucharest
1987-1988	AS Armata Târgu Mureș
1988	Oțelul Galați
1989	Universitatea Cluj
?	FC Olt Scorniceşti
1992-1993	Romania
1996	Dinamo Bucharest
1998-2001	Dinamo Bucharest
2002-2003	Dinamo Bucharest
2007	Dinamo Bucharest (Sports Director)
1 Only league games are given.

Cornel "Mister" "Procurorul" Dinu (born August 2, 1948 in Târgovişte , Dâmbovița district ) is a former Romanian football player and coach . He played a total of 454 games in the highest Romanian football league, Divizia A , and played exclusively for Dinamo Bucharest . He also took part in the 1970 World Cup.

Player career

society

Cornel Dinu in the shirt of Dinamo Bucharest (1971)

Dinu began playing football in his hometown of Târgovişte at Metalul. At the age of 18 he moved to a Romanian top club and joined Dinamo Bucharest , to which he remained loyal until the end of his career in 1983. He made his debut in Divizia A for Dinamo on September 25, 1966 against Steagul roşu Braşov . In his second season he became a regular player and top performer. With Dinamo Dinu was six times Romanian champion and twice Romanian cup winner. He played 33 European Cup games for the club, in which he scored three goals. His law degree earned him the nickname Procurorul (German: the public prosecutor ) in his active career .

National team

Dinu had his first appearance in the Romanian national team on May 1, 1968 against Austria . Dinu made 75 appearances for his country and scored seven goals. Since seven of these games, in which he scored two goals, took place within the framework of the Olympic Games , FIFA subsequently removed them from Romania's international match record in 1999, so that the corrected record now reads 68 games and 5 goals. He took part in the Soccer World Cup in Mexico in 1970 and was used in all three games over the full distance. In 1979 he replaced Mircea Lucescu as the Romanian national record player and stayed that way until 1984 when he was overtaken by László Bölöni . Furthermore, Dinu played 5 international matches for the Romanian U23 national football team.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career in 1983 Dinu was first assistant coach of Dinamo Bucharest under Nicolae Nicuşor Dumitru . In September 1984 he took over the team as head coach, but was dismissed in April 1985. Then he returned to his hometown and took over the local club CS Târgovişte in Divizia B . He then supervised Metalul Bucharest in Divizia C . In season 1987/88 he trained with AS Armata Tirgu Mures a re-promoted in the Divizia A . At the end of the season he moved to Oțelul Galați , which had qualified for the UEFA Cup . With Dinu as coach, Oțelul achieved the greatest success in the club's history on September 7, 1988: a 1-0 home win against Juventus Turin , which could not prevent the elimination in the first round. From this victory, however, the club went downhill and Dinu was sacked at the end of the same month after six defeats in a row. In the second half of the 1988/89 season he took over Universitatea Cluj , where he stopped in October 1989. It is unclear whether he coached FC Olt Scorniceşti during the winter break , as the club was forcibly dissolved at that time. In 1990 he became State Secretary in the Romanian Ministry of Sport and Youth and in the summer of the same year led the new elections in the Romanian Football Association .

On April 8, 1992 Dinu returned as a coach and replaced Mircea Rădulescu as the Romanian national coach. When the goal of qualifying for the soccer World Cup in 1994 was in jeopardy, he was replaced in the summer of 1993 by Anghel Iordănescu , who secured the qualification. He then worked as a manager for FC Național Bucharest , but returned to Dinamo Bucharest in 1996 and assumed the office of president. After the dismissal of Marian Bondrea , he jumped from November to December 1996 in two championship games as an interim coach for Dinamo.

In April 1998 Dinu was again coach of Dinamo Bucharest when he replaced Viorel Hizo . With Dinamo he won the Romanian championship in 2000 and the cup in 2000 and 2001. In September 2001 he was released and replaced by Marin Ion . From October 2002 to March 2003 he jumped in again as a coach before Ioan Andone Dinamo took over. Dinu remained with the association as a member of the board of directors in the role of administrator delegate . In November 2007 he was together with Cornel Țălnar briefly as the successor to Walter Zenga again head coach of Dinamo. On July 19, 2011, Dino suffered a myocardial infarction and was taken to the Spitalul Clinic de Urgențǎ Floreasca in Bucharest. On December 15, 2011, his wife, with whom he had a son, died of complications from diabetes mellitus .

successes

As a player

• World Cup participant: 1970
• Romanian champion: 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1983
• Romanian Cup Winner: 1968, 1982
• Romanian Footballer of the Year : 1970, 1972, 1974

As a trainer

• Romanian champion: 2000
• Romanian Cup Winner: 2000, 2001
• Semi-finals in the 1984 European Champion Clubs' Cup (as assistant coach)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/roem-recintlp.html
2. ↑ România Liberă from September 3, 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 29, 2011 (Romanian)  
3. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor of July 19, 2011 , accessed on July 29, 2011 (Romanian)
4. ↑ Adevărul of December 15, 2011 , accessed on December 17, 2011 (Romanian)

literature

• Mihai Ionescu / Răzvan Toma / Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 231-232 .

Web links

• Cornel Dinu on romaniansoccer.ro (English)