Nicolae "Nae" Constantin (born 9 December 1973) is a Romanian football manager and former player, who serves as an assistant for Super League Greece club PAOK.
[citation needed] Constantin started his playing career with Victoria Florești, a local club in from his native Prahova County.
Constantin only made seven appearances for Digenis, as he quickly returned to his home country to rejoin Lucescu and other Rapid players at FC Brașov.
Reunited with his former coach and teammates, Constantin spent three seasons with "the Yellow-Blacks", before joining third division club Chimia Brazi in 2010.
In the summer of 2021, he returned to Petrolul as a head coach, which he stated it was one of his biggest wishes,[1] and earned it promotion to the top flight after finishing the 2021–22 Liga II season in the first place.