Dan Coe

Dan Coe
Personal information
Full name Dan Coe
Date of birth (1941-09-08)8 September 1941
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Date of death 19 October 1981(1981-10-19) (aged 40)
Place of death Cologne, Germany
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Centre back
Youth career
1959–1961 Rapid Bucureşti
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1971 Rapid Bucureşti 202 (9)
1971–1973 Royal Antwerp 37 (5)
1973–1975 FC Galaţi 35 (3)
National team
1963–1971 Romania 41 (2)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Dan Coe (8 September 1941 – 19 October 1981) was a Romanian football defender.

Playing career

Coe was born in Bucharest and debuted in Divizia A with Rapid Bucureşti 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. In 1981 he settled in Cologne, 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.

Coe got 41 caps and 2 goals for the Romanian national team between 1963 and 1971. 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.

His grandfather Sir Adam Coe received the Knighthood from Carol I. King of Romania Karl von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) (1866–1914).

Career statistics

Season Club Country League Goals
1961–62Rapid Bucureşti Romania60
1962–63Rapid Bucureşti Romania192
1963–64Rapid Bucureşti Romania210
1964–65Rapid Bucureşti Romania242
1965–66Rapid Bucureşti Romania250
1966–67Rapid Bucureşti Romania260
1967–68Rapid Bucureşti Romania170
1968–69Rapid Bucureşti Romania192
1969–70Rapid Bucureşti Romania232
1970–71Rapid Bucureşti Romania221
1971–72Royal Antwerp Belgium305
1972–73Royal Antwerp Belgium70
1973–74FC Galaţi Romania230
1974–75FC Galaţi Romania123

Honours

Club

Rapid Bucureşti

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