Dan Coe

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Dan Coe
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1960s
Personnel
Surname Dan Coe
birthday September 8, 1941
place of birth Bucharest ,  Romania
date of death October 19, 1981
Place of death Cologne ,  Germany
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Rapid Bucharest
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959-1971 Rapid Bucharest 202 (9)
1971-1973 Royal Antwerp 37 (5)
1973-1974 FC Galați 35 (3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1963-1971 Romania 41 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

Daniel "Dan" Coe (born September 8, 1941 in Bucharest , † October 19, 1981 in Cologne , Germany ) was a Romanian football player . He played 214 games in the highest Romanian football league, Divizia A , and took part in the 1970 World Cup.

Career

Dan Coe started his career with his hometown club Rapid Bucharest . Dan Coe was one of the most famous athletes in his home country. Romanian football fans called the Vorstopper and Libero "our Beckenbauer ".

In Romania, Coe only played for one club for 20 years: from 1951 to 1971 he laced up his football boots for Rapid Bucharest. After three third places and five runners-up championships, he achieved the greatest success of his career in 1967 : winning the Romanian title when Rapid was able to prevail against local rivals Dinamo Bucharest . In the European Cup , Rapid was eliminated from Juventus Turin after two draws. In the international match against Germany Coe Romania leads Romania for the first time as captain . Romania won the game in Bucharest.

At the end of his career Dan Coe played from 1971 to 1973 in the Belgian 1st division . At Royal Antwerp he was trained by Pál Csernai . Here, too, Coe was very popular and was celebrated by the fans. At the same time, he acquired his coaching license at the Sport University in Cologne .

Coe then returned to Romania, but was rejected by the coaches of his former club Rapid. He then moved to Divizia B for FC Galați , with whom he was promoted to Divizia A in 1974 . In the 1974/75 season , Coe still played in the first half of the season before ending his career. For a short time he was a coach in Galați and Sighetu Marmației .

National team

Coe played 41 games for the Romanian national soccer team and scored two goals. He made his first appearance on May 12, 1963 against the GDR , the last in 1971. He wore the national team's armband for the first time against Germany.

successes

  • Participation in the 1964 Olympic Games
  • Romanian champion: 1967
  • Balkan Cup: 1964, 1966
  • Participation in the soccer world championship: 1970

death

After the end of his career, Dan Coe traveled to Germany on the pretext of visiting his old colleagues in Belgium. He did not return to Romania and settled in Cologne . On October 19, 1981, he was found hanged in his home. Shortly before his death, he gave an interview to Radio Free Europe in which he strongly criticized the Romanian government. He left behind his wife and a daughter.

Others

His father, Duce Coe , had been the captain of the Sportul Studențesc football team in the mid-1930s .

literature

  • Mihai Ionescu / Răzvan Toma / Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 222 .
  • Kicker sports magazine No. 90/46 wk.
  • ABC Nieuwsmagazin No. 38

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FC Sportul Studenţesc - Istoric ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcsportulstudentesc.ro

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personal data
SURNAME Coe, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coe, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1981
Place of death Cologne , Germany