Constantin Teașcă

Constantin Teașcă also known as Titi Teașcă (25 September 1922 – 30 July 1996) was a Romanian football player and manager.

Nicknamed "Little Napoleon", Teașcă was known for his controversial training methods which led to conflicts with the players. He was the manager of Romania on two occasions, first in 1962 and then in 1967. Teașcă has a total of 323 matches as a manager in the Romanian top-division, Divizia A, consisting of 120 victories, 64 draws and 139 losses.

Playing career Teașcă was born on 25 September 1922 in Giurgiu, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1932 at local club Acvila. Afterwards he continued to work with juniors for a while at Dinamo București. In the middle of the 1961–62 season he replaced Traian Ionescu at Dinamo București, but got replaced by Nicolae Dumitru after only four rounds, the team managing to win the championship at the end of the season.

In 1962, Teașcă had his first spell at Romania's national team, his first game being a 4–0 home victory in a friendly against Morocco, a match in which he debuted eight young players: Gheorghe Dungu, Vasile Sfetcu, Emil Petru, Constantin Koszka, Zoltán Ivansuc, Marin Voinea, Vasile Gergely and Iosif Lazăr. His following two games were a 3–2 friendly loss to East Germany and a 6–0 defeat to Spain in the 1964 European Nations' Cup qualifiers. Rădulescu managed to get them promoted to the first league.

In 1968, Teașcă returned to "U" Cluj, moving afterwards to Argeș Pitești. While working for Universitatea, he debuted many young players such as Nicolae Tilihoi, Aurel Țicleanu, Mircea Irimescu, Ion Geolgău and Sorin Cârțu. Universitatea Craiova Cupa României: 1976–77