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, and later participated at the 1970 World Cup. Club career Originating from an ethnic Aromanian family, Dan Coe, nicknamed Ministrul Apărării ("The Minister of Defence"), was born on 8 September 1941 in Bucharest and started playing football in 1956 at the junior squads of Rapid București, making his Divizia A debut on 18 March 1962 in a 1–1 against Minerul Lupeni. He remained with Rapid for ten seasons, being for a while the team's captain, winning the league title in the 1966–67 season, being used by coach Valentin Stănescu in 26 matches. He also played 4 games in the 1967–68 European Cup, four in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and won two Balkans Cup with Rapid. In 1971 he managed to earn a transfer in Belgium at Royal Antwerp, being one of the few Romanian footballers that was allowed by the communist regime to play in Western Europe. After two years in which he played 38 games and scored 8 goals in the Belgian First Division, he came back to Romania, playing for Divizia B club, FC Galaţi, helping the club earn promotion to Divizia A, where in the following season on 8 December 1974 he made his last appearance in the competition in a 6–0 loss in front of Universitatea Craiova, having a total of 214 Divizia A matches played with 12 goals scored. International career Dan Coe played 29 games in which he was captain 6 times and scored two goals at international level for Romania, making his debut on 12 May 1963 when coach Silviu Ploeșteanu sent him on the field in the 30th minute in order to replace Ion Nunweiller in a friendly which ended with a 3–2 victory against East Germany. He played 6 games in which he scored one goal in a 3–1 away loss against Czechoslovakia at the 1966 World Cup qualifiers and made three appearances at the Euro 1968 qualifiers. Coe also played four games at the successful 1970 World Cup qualifiers, having a appreciated performance in front of Eusébio in Romania's 1–0 home victory against Portugal, being selected by coach Angelo Niculescu to be part of the squad from the final tournament, however without playing a single match. Dan Coe played his last