Constantin Iancu (footballer)

Constantin Iancu

Personal information
Date of birth	(1940-08-26)26 August 1940
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Date of death	2000 (aged 60)
Place of death	Sweden
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1961	Flacăra Roșie București
1961–1962	Dinamo Obor București
1962–1963	Dinamo Bacău
1963–1964	Politehnica Iași
1964–1965	Progresul București
1965–1969	Farul Constanța
1970–1971	Argeș Pitești
1971–1973	FC Galați
1973–1975	Progresul București
International career
1965–1966	Romania	5	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Constantin Iancu (26 August 1940 – 2000) was a Romanian footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Constantin Iancu, nicknamed "Guță" was born on 26 August 1940 in Bucharest, Romania and grew up in the Dudești neighborhood, starting to play football at local club, Flacăra Roșie. In the early 1960s his talent was noticed by coach Traian Ionescu who wanted to bring him to Dinamo București where he did not have a place to play as there in the offence were players like Ion Pârcălab, Constantin Frățilă or Ion Haidu so he was sent to Dinamo Obor București for one year, afterwards going one year to Dinamo Bacău. After another two years spent at Politehnica Iași and Progresul București, Iancu went to play for Farul Constanța where he had his most long and prolific spell of his career but in 1969 after scoring the only goal of a 1–0 Divizia A home victory against Dinamo București he was arrested shortly after the game ended. One year before his arrest he was accused of causing a scandal, disturbing the peace and of attempted rape when he was with Farul in a cantonment at Poiana Brașov but because of lack of evidence, the authorities closed the file but it was re-opened after that match and people suspected that it was because Dinamo, who had connections with the Internal Affairs Ministry lost because of the goal he scored, however this hypothesis was never proven. Iancu was sent to two years in prison and banned for life to play football but he was released from jail after one year and asked the authorities permission to play football again which was granted to him, so he played one year at Argeș Pitești, two at FC Galați in Divizia B and ended his career at Progresul after in the middle of the 1970s a decree appeared that said that players who had criminal records are not allowed to play football. in the 1980s, Constantin Iancu emigrated to some relatives he had in Sweden where he died in 2000 at age 60.

International career

Constantin Iancu played five matches and scored one goal for Romania, making his debut under coach Ilie Oană on 13 June 1965 in a 2–1 away loss against Portugal. In the following game he scored his first and only goal for the national team in a 1–0 victory in a friendly against Uruguay. Iancu's last appearance for Romania was in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 away victory against Israel.

International goals

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after the player's goal.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	19 June 1966	Stadionul 23 August, București, Romania	Uruguay	1–0	1–0	Friendly