Club career

He was born in Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 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

Communist Romania

Communist Romania was the period in Romanian history when that country was a Soviet-aligned communist state in the Eastern Bloc, with the dominant role of Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its successive constitutions...

, 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

Securitate

The Securitate was the secret police agency of Communist Romania. Previously, the Romanian secret police was called Siguranţa Statului. Founded on August 30, 1948, with help from the Soviet NKVD, the Securitate was abolished in December 1989, shortly after President Nicolae Ceaușescu was...

 but this has never been proved.

Coe got 41 caps and 2 goals for the Romanian national team

Romania national football team

The Romania national football team is the national football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation.Romania is one of only four national teams, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium, that took part in the first three World Cups.However, after that...

 between 1967 and 1978. He represented his country at the 1964 Summer Olympics

1964 Summer Olympics

The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...

 and at the 1970 FIFA World Cup

1970 FIFA World Cup

The 1970 FIFA World Cup, the ninth staging of the World Cup, was held in Mexico, from 31 May to 21 June. The 1970 tournament was the first World Cup hosted in North America, and the first held outside South America and Europe. In a match-up of two-time World Cup champions, the final was won by...

.

His father Duce Coe was the captain FC 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	Matches	Goals
youth	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania
1961–62	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	6	0
1962–63	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	19	2
1963–64	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	21	0
1964–65	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	24	2
1965–66	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	25	0
1966–67	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	26	0
1967–68	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	17	0
1968–69	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	19	2
1969–70	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	23	2
1970–71	Rapid Bucureşti	Romania	22	1
1971–72	R. Antwerp F.C.	Belgium	30	5
1972–73	R. Antwerp F.C.	Belgium	7	0
1973–74	FC Galaţi	Romania	23	0
1974–75	FC Galaţi	Romania	12	3

External links

• RomanianSoccer.ro
• Career statistics
• http://www.myspace.com/coe_dan
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coe