Constantin Iancu (footballer)

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.