Dietmar Constantini
Dietmar "Didi" Constantini (born 30 May, 1955 in Innsbruck, Austria) is a former Austrian football player and coach.
.jpg.webp) Dietmar Constantini (2009) | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dietmar Constantini | ||
| Date of birth | 30 May 1955 | ||
| Place of birth | Innsbruck, Austria | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1979 1979–1980 1980–1981 1981–1982 1982–1984 1984–1985 1986–1987 |
FC Wacker Innsbruck LASK Linz SPG Raika Innsbruck AO Kavala FC Union Wels Favoritner AC Wiener Sport-Club | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1989–1991 1991–1992 1991 1992 1992 1993 1993–1995 1995–1997 1997–1998 1999–2001 2001–2002 2003 2006 2006–2007 2008 2009– 2011 |
Rapid Wien (assistant) Austria U21 Austria (caretaker) Austria (assistant) Austria (caretaker) Linzer ASK Admira Wacker Mödling Tirol Innsbruck 1. FSV Mainz 05 Austria (assistant) Austria Wien (caretaker) Kärnten (caretaker) Pasching (caretaker) Pasching Austria Wien Austria | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Career
Constantini started playing with FC Wacker Innsbruck. With the team he won the Austrian Championship two times. After one year with LASK Linz, he went to Greece. This was the only time he spent with a squad from abroad. In 1982, he came back to Austria and played with different clubs from the first and second league. After his time with the Wiener Sportclub, he ended his career as player.
He played 198 league matches (5 goals, 2*Austrian football champion, 1 Austrian Cup). He played matches for the Austrian Under 18 team and the amateur national team.
Coaching career
His first experiences as coach was in Saudi-Arabia and for SK Rapid Wien as assistant coach. Then he went to the ÖFB where he became coach of the Under 21 national team and at the same time assistant coach with the national team. After the demotion of head coach Alfred Riedl he did not become coach of the team, so he went on to different clubs in Austria and Germany. (FSV Mainz 05, LASK, Admira Wackerand FC Tirol Innsbruck.)
In 1998, he started football camps for children so he could not became coach of a team. He was only caretaker for FK Austria Wien, FC Kärnten and manager of SV Austria Salzburg. He worked in the meantime as expert for the football broadcast of ATV and organized his camps. In 2006/07, he was coach of FC Superfund Pasching.
Team coach
On 4 March 2009, Constantini became coach of the Austrian national football team. In the six last qualification matches the team made 10 points but could not qualify for the 2010 World Cup. In September the contract was prolonged till 2012. Constantini had troubles with some players but he also gave young players a chance to play in the team (Aleksandar Dragović, Yasin Pehlivan, Julian Baumgartlinger or Jakob Jantscher).
After the first matches in the qualification for the EURO 2012 Austria did not qualify so the contract was dissolved.