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After saving the team from relegation in the first season as a coach, in the second he finished in the eighth place.
After saving the team from relegation in the first season as a coach, in the second he finished in the eighth place.
He was the former coach of the South Africa national football team Dumitru is one of a few coaches to have guided the "big three" in South Africa, Sundowns and Dumitru started playing football with local club Sportul Studenţesc in the late 1950s, he had a short run because injuries had ended his career prematurely.
As a result, he started to coach Ştiinţa Craiova known as Universitatea Craiova present-day, in the 1964-1965 season, the first for the Students in Divizia A. He was only 25 years old, thus establishing a record in the Divizia A as the youngest coach ever.
He left Craiova in 1966 and was for a while the coach of Romania U-23 Olympic team In 1969 he went to Turkey where he managed Altay Izmir, Beşiktaş and then Mersin.
In 1973, Dumitru was called back by the Securitate in Romania, but he refused. He arrived in Germany where he requested political asylum.
In Romania, he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison during the communist regime rule.
In 1974 he began coaching again, but this time across the ocean, in the United States with Rochester Lancers in the NASL. He continued to train them, before moving to New York Apollo club, later renamed United. From that moment he was known as Ted Dumitru. In 1980, Dumitru arrived in Africa, and was appointed as head coach of Zambia, and led the team in the preliminaries of the African Cup of Nations together with Dick Chama, qualifying them to the final tournament in 1982, but he did not participate due to his United States. passport and was replaced by Yugoslav coach Ante Bulešic.
Being that the tournament was hosted by Libya, a country where Americans are not welcomed.
During his stint in Zambia, Zambia"s President Kenneth Kaunda once said of him: "He is more than a coach. He is a son of Africa.
He is a humanist who puts sports well-being ahead of his profession." He left Zambia and signed a contract with the African Football Confederation, in which he was sent to Swaziland, then in Namibia to help develop football in those countries. Then he moved to, the other big club in South Africa, winning two more titles in 1998 and 1999.
In South Africa he also coached the club of and Manning Rangers.
Dumitru was appointed manager of the Namibian national team in November 2000 replacing Lucky Richter. He joined again leading the South African side to an African Champions League Final in 2001 in his second spell with the club He published a book about football, "Maximal Training" which was published in Germany.
In South Africa, Dumitru is nicknamed Master Ted, The Professor or Mr Magic.
“The style of the game is a form of expression” Ted Dumitru is regarded as by far the most successful coach in the South African domestic scene.