Dan Coe

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)
National team
1963–1971	Romania[a]	41	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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 proven.^{[citation needed]}

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[]

• Romanian League: (1) 1966–67
• Balkans Cup: (2) 1963–64, 1965–66
• European Railways Cup: (1) 1968

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• Dan Coe at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian) and StatisticsFootball.com
• Dan Coe at National-Football-Teams.com
• Dan Coe at Rafcmuseum.be (in Dutch)

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