# Constantin Frățilă

Constantin Frățilă (1 October 1942 – 21 October 2016) was a Romanian football striker and coach.

## Club career

Constantin Frățilă was born on 1 October 1942 in Bucharest, Romania and he started to play football in 1957 at local club, Recolta, after one year moving to Uzinele Vasile Roaită. He started his senior career playing for Dinamo București, making his Divizia A debut on 16 April 1961 in a 6–0 victory against Minerul Lupeni in which he scored a hat-trick, having a total of seven goals in seven appearances until the end of his first season spent at the club.
In the following four seasons he helped the club win four consecutive Divizia A titles from 1962 until 1965, in the first he worked with three coaches Traian Ionescu, Constantin Teașcă and Nicolae Dumitru who gave him 19 appearances in which he scored five goals, in the following two Dumitru and Ionescu used him in 15 matches in which he netted nine times in the first and in 26 with 19 goals scored in the second which made him the top-scorer of the league alongside Cornel Pavlovici and in the last one he played 23 games, scoring 11 times under the guidance of Angelo Niculescu.
Frățilă also won two Cupa României trophies with The Red Dogs, coach Ionescu using him all the minutes in the 5–3 victory in which he scored a goal against rivals Steaua București from the 1964 final but in the one from 1968 Frățilă was not used by coach Bazil Marian in the 3–1 over Rapid București. He played in 11 European Cup matches in which he scored seven goals and one game in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, in the 1963–64 European Cup campaign, he helped Dinamo get past East Germany champion, Motor Jena, being eliminated in the next phase by Real Madrid against whom he scored a goal in a 5–3 loss and also in the 1965–66 edition he scored two goals against Denmark's champion, Boldklubben 1909 which helped the team advance to the next phase where they were eliminated by the winners of the previous two seasons of the competition, Inter Milan but he scored a goal in the historical 2–1 victory from the first leg, after which he said:"I scored a goal against Inter, can you believe it? I scored against the best defense in the world. It is the biggest satisfaction of my life". During his 10 seasons spent at Dinamo, Frățilă scored in the league six goals in the derby with Steaua, including a brace in a 3–2 victory but in a 1967 Bucharest Cup match against them he suffered an injury which kept him off the field for one year and a half.
In 1970 he went to play for Argeș Pitești where in his second season he helped the team win the Divizia A title, contributing with seven goals scored in the 17 matches coaches Titus Ozon and Florin Halagian used him. After a season spent at Sportul Studențesc București, he went to play in Cyprus in the 1973–74 season alongside fellow Romanian Mihai Mocanu, winning the title and the cup. Frățilă returned to Romania at Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea where he made his last Divizia A appearance on 20 November 1974 in a 1–0 victory against Sportul Studențesc, ending his career in 1975 at Divizia C team, Sirena București.

## International career

Constantin Frățilă played seven games in which he scored seven goals at international level for Romania, making his debut under coach Ilie Oană on 2 November 1966 in a 4–2 victory against Switzerland in which he scored a hat-trick at the Euro 1968 qualifiers. He played two more games at the Euro 1968 qualifiers in which he scored a double in a 5–1 win over Cyprus. Frățilă made his last appearance for the national team on 22 March 1967 in a friendly which ended with a 2–1 victory against France in which he scored a goal.

### International goals

    Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after each Constantin Frățilă goal.
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 2 November 1966 | Stadionul Republicii, București, Romania | Switzerland | 2–0 | 4–2 | Euro 1968 qualifiers |
| 2. | 2 November 1966 | Stadionul Republicii, București, Romania | Switzerland | 3–0 | 4–2 | Euro 1968 qualifiers |
| 3. | 2 November 1966 | Stadionul Republicii, București, Romania | Switzerland | 4–0 | 4–2 | Euro 1968 qualifiers |
| 4. | 17 November 1966 | Stadionul Petrolul, Ploiești, Romania | Poland | 3–0 | 4–3 | Friendly |
| 5. | 3 December 1966 | GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus | Cyprus | 3–1 | 5–1 | Euro 1968 qualifiers |
| 6. | 3 December 1966 | GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus | Cyprus | 4–1 | 5–1 | Euro 1968 qualifiers |
| 7. | 22 March 1967 | Parc des Princes, Paris, France | France | 1–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |

## Managerial career

Constantin Frățilă started coaching in 1976 at Dinamo București's center of children and juniors, afterwards coaching senior teams Dinamo Victoria București which he helped earn promotion to Divizia B and FC Baia Mare which he coached in the 1984–85 Divizia A season.

## Death

Constantin Frățilă died on 21 October 2016 at age 74.

## Honours
### Player

Dinamo București
* Divizia A: 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65
* Cupa României: 1963–64, 1967–68
Argeș Pitești
* Divizia A: 1971–72
Omonia Nicosia
* Cypriot League: 1973–74
* Cypriot Cup: 1973–74
Individual
* Divizia A top scorer: 1963–64

### Manager

Dinamo Victoria București
* Divizia C: 1981–82