1. Cornel Dinu was born on 2 August 1948 and is a Romanian retired professional footballer and manager who played as a sweeper or a defensive midfielder.
13 Facts About Cornel Dinu
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Cornel Dinu started out his playing career at hometown club Metalul Targoviste in 1965, and went on to spend the rest of his career at Dinamo Bucuresti with which he won eight domestic trophies.
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Internationally, Dinu appeared in over 60 matches for the Romania national team and scored three goals.
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Cornel Dinu was named the Romanian Footballer of the Year three times, in 1970,1972 and 1974, and in the former year finished on the 24th place in the Ballon d'Or voting.
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Cornel Dinu was born in Targoviste to a Romanian father from Barlad who worked as a magistrate, lawyer and was a doctor of law and a Serbian mother from Targoviste who worked as an economist.
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Cornel Dinu won three times the Romanian Footballer of the Year award, in 1970 along with Dinamo teammate Florea Dumitrache he was nominated for the Ballon d'Or.
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Cornel Dinu played three games at the successful 1970 World Cup qualifiers, being used by coach Angelo Niculescu in all the minutes of the three group matches from the final tournament as Romania did not advance to the next stage.
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Cornel Dinu played 9 matches at the 1972 Euro qualifiers, managing to reach the quarter-finals where Romania was defeated by Hungary, who advanced to the final tournament.
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Cornel Dinu coached CS Targoviste, ASA Targu Mures, Universitatea Cluj and Olt Scornicesti, having a total of 218 matches as a manager in the Romanian top-division, Divizia A consisting of 118 victories, 35 draws and 65 losses.
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Cornel Dinu was guest at various radio and television shows, with football and cultural themes.
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Cornel Dinu received the Honorary Citizen of Targoviste and Bucharest titles.
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Cornel Dinu wrote a total of five volumes, two of them being about football and three autobiographical:.
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Cornel Dinu was known for his original ironic comments by using metaphors, parables, quotes from historians or classical writers and references to history:.