Cornel Dinu - International Appearances (original) (raw)

The outstanding Romanian player obtained 67 international caps with his National Team.
He held the Romanian caps record from October 31, 1979 (when he equalled the total of Mircea Lucescu; according to the traditional count of Romanian caps, this also happened on October 31, 1979, except for involving 70 rather than 64 caps) until June 14, 1984 (when his total was surpassed by Ladislau Bölöni; according to the traditional count of Romanian caps, this happened on June 17, 1984).
All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.

Born: 2- 8-1948 Country: Romania Caps: 67 (W18-D30-L19 - GF94-GA75 - %49.25) Goals: 3 Age First Cap: 19 yr 273 d 1- 5-1968 vs. Austria 1-1 Age Last Cap: 32 yr 256 d 15- 4-1981 vs. Denmark 1-2 National Team Career: 12 yr 349 d

Caps Date Venue Opponent Score Competition

1 1- 5-68 Linz Austria 1-1 2 5- 6-68 București Netherlands 0-0 3 27-10-68 Lisboa Portugal 0-3 World Cup Qualifier 4 6-11-68 București England 0-0 5 23-11-68 București Switzerland 2-0 World Cup Qualifier 6 15- 1-69 London England 1-1 7 16- 4-69 Athinai Greece 2-2 World Cup Qualifier 8 30- 4-69 Paris France 0-1 9 14- 5-69 Lausanne Switzerland 1-0 World Cup Qualifier 10 3- 9-69 Beograd Yugoslavia 1-1 11 12-10-69 București Portugal 1-0 World Cup Qualifier 12 16-11-69 București Greece 1-1 World Cup Qualifier 13 9- 2-70 Lima Peru 1-1 14 8- 4-70 Stuttgart West Germany 1-1 15 28- 4-70 Reims France 0-2 16 6- 5-70 București Yugoslavia 0-0
17 2- 6-70 Guadalajara England 0-1 World Cup 18 6- 6-70 Guadalajara Czechoslovakia 2-1 World Cup 19 10- 6-70 Guadalajara Brazil 2-3 World Cup 20 11-10-70 București Finland 3-0 European Champ. Qual. 21 11-11-70 Cardiff Wales 0-0 European Champ. Qual. 22 21- 4-71 Novi Sad Yugoslavia 1-0 23 16- 5-71 Bratislava Czechoslovakia 0-1 European Champ. Qual. 24 22- 9-71 Helsinki Finland 4-0 European Champ. Qual.

10-10-71 København Denmark 1-2 Olympic Games Qual. 25 14-11-71 București Czechoslovakia 2-1 European Champ. Qual. 26 24-11-71 București Wales 2-0 European Champ. Qual. 27 8- 4-72 București France 2-0 28 29- 4-72 Budapest Hungary 1-1 European Champ. Qual. 29 14- 5-72 București Hungary 2-2 European Champ. Qual. 30 17- 5-72 Beograd Hungary 1-2 European Champ. Qual. 31 17- 6-72 București Italy 3-3 32 3- 9-72 Craiova Austria 1-1 33 20- 9-72 Helsinki Finland 1-1 World Cup Qualifier 34 6- 5-73 Tiranë Albania 4-1 World Cup Qualifier 35 27- 5-73 București East Germany 1-0 World Cup Qualifier 36 26- 9-73 Leipzig East Germany 0-2 World Cup Qualifier 37 14-10-73 București Finland 9-0 World Cup Qualifier 38 23- 3-74 Paris France 0-1 39 17- 4-74 São Paulo Brazil 0-2 40 22- 4-74 Buenos Aires Argentina 1-2 41 29- 5-74 București Greece 3-1 Balkan Cup 42 5- 6-74 Rotterdam Netherlands 0-0 43 23- 7-74 Constanța Japan 4-1 44 25- 9-74 Sofia Bulgaria 0-0 45 13-10-74 København Denmark 0-0 European Champ. Qual. 46 4-12-74 Tel-Aviv Israel 1-0 47 19- 3-75 Istanbul Turkey 1-1 48 31- 3-75 Praha Czechoslovakia 1-1 49 11- 5-75 București Denmark 6-1 European Champ. Qual. 50 1- 6-75 București Scotland 1-1 European Champ. Qual.
4- 6-75 București Denmark 4-0 Olympic Games Qual.
18- 6-75 København Denmark 2-1 Olympic Games Qual. 51 24- 9-75 Thessaloniki Greece 1-1 Balkan Cup 52 12-10-75 București Turkey 2-2 53 16-11-75 București Spain 2-2 European Champ. Qual. 54 29-11-75 București Soviet Union 2-2
3-12-75 Blois France 0-4 Olympic Games Qual. 55 17-12-75 Glasgow Scotland 1-1 European Champ. Qual.
24- 3-76 București France 1-0 Olympic Games Qual.
6- 4-76 Roosendaal Netherlands 3-0 Olympic Games Qual.
14- 4-76 București Netherlands 5-1 Olympic Games Qual.
56 2- 7-76 Teheran Iran 2-2 57 22- 9-76 București Czechoslovakia 1-1 58 6-10-76 Praha Czechoslovakia 2-3 59 26-10-77 Madrid Spain 0-2 World Cup Qualifier 60 21- 3-79 București Greece 3-0 61 4- 4-79 Craiova Spain 2-2 European Champ. Qual. 62 1- 6-79 Ost-Berlin East Germany 0-1 63 14-10-79 Moskva Soviet Union 1-3 64 31-10-79 T. Mitrovica Yugoslavia 1-2 European Champ. Qual.
11- 1-80 Bogot� Hungary B 2-2 65 16- 2-80 Napoli Italy 1-2 66 6- 6-80 Bruxelles Belgium 1-2 67 15- 4-81 København Denmark 1-2

Total Record

Matches Won Draw Lost For Against Points Percentage 67 18 30 19 94- 75 66 49.25

Types of Matches Friendlies 34 World Cup Qualifiers 12 World Cup 3
European Champ. Qual. 16 Balkan Cup 2

Total 67

NB: note that 7 Olympic Qualifying matches have been removed from the list after a FIFA decision in 1999 (in those, Dinu scored 2 goals, against Denmark on 4- 6-75 and against the Netherlands on 14- 4-76); in addition the FRF removed the match on 11- 1-1980 (vs. Hungary B, 2-2; Dinu scored both goals) in 2007

Goals:

Cap 27 1 goal Cap 49 1 goal Cap 52 1 goal

Total: 3 goals

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Author: Karel Stokkermans Last updated: 4 Jun 2020