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Dan Coe
Personal information
Date of birth (1941-09-08)8 September 1941
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania[1]
Date of death 19 October 1981(1981-10-19) (aged 40)
Place of death Cologne, West Germany[1]
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
1959–1961 Rapid București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1971 Rapid București 202 (9)
1971–1973 Royal Antwerp 37 (5)
1973–1975 FC Galaţi 35 (3)
Total 274 (17)
International career
1963–1971 Romania[a] 41 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Daniel Coe (8 September 1941 – 19 October 1981) was a Romanian football defender. He was part of the Romanian team that reached quarterfinals at the 1964 Summer Olympics,[1] and later participated in the 1970 World Cup.

Playing career

Coe was born in Bucharest and debuted in Divizia A with Rapid București in 1962. He remained with Rapid for eleven seasons, winning the league title in 1967. He then went to play in Belgium.

He was one of several Romanian internationals who ran from the communist regime, to move abroad in the early 1970s. He spent two years in the Jupiler League with Royal Antwerp in Belgium before returning home. Coe got 29 caps and 2 goals for the Romanian national team between 1963 and 1971.[2] He represented his country at the 1964 Summer Olympics and at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

His father Duce Coe was also a footballer and captain of Sportul Studențesc.

Retirement

In 1981, he settled in Cologne, West Germany as a political refugee. Shortly after an interview on Radio Free Europe, Coe was found dead in his apartment on 19 October 1981. The paramedics tried everything possible to reanimate him (open chest cardiac reanimation). His wife and his daughter found him legcuffed and handcuffed hanging in his apartment in Cologne. It was subsequently claimed that he was killed at the behest of the Romanian Securitate, but this has never been proved.

Club statistics

Season Club Country Apps Goals
1961–62 Rapid București  Romania 6 0
1962–63 Rapid București  Romania 19 2
1963–64 Rapid București  Romania 21 0
1964–65 Rapid București  Romania 24 2
1965–66 Rapid București  Romania 25 0
1966–67 Rapid București  Romania 26 0
1967–68 Rapid București  Romania 17 0
1968–69 Rapid București  Romania 19 2
1969–70 Rapid București  Romania 23 2
1970–71 Rapid București  Romania 22 1
1971–72 Royal Antwerp  Belgium 30 5
1972–73 Royal Antwerp  Belgium 7 0
1973–74 FC Galaţi  Romania 23 0
1974–75 FC Galaţi  Romania 12 3

Honours

Club

Rapid București

Notes

  1. ^ Including 12 appearances for Romania's Olympic team.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Dan Coe. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ a b "Dan Coe". European Football. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  3. ^ Dan Coe at National-Football-Teams.com
  • Dan Coe at RomanianSoccer.ro (archived) (in Romanian)
  • Dan Coe at National-Football-Teams.com
  • Dan Coe at Rafcmuseum.be (in Dutch)


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