game for the national team on 16 May 1971 in a 1–0 loss against Czechoslovakia at the Euro 1972 qualifiers. He also played for Romania's Olympic team and participated at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where he made four appearances, helping the team finish in the 5th place. International goals Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after each Dan Coe goal. Personal life Dan Coe was of Aromanian ethnicity and his father, Duce Coe was also a footballer and captain of Sportul Studențesc București and also an Iron Guard legionnaire. Death After he ended his playing career, he obtained permission from the communist regime to go on a trip in Belgium, but after he arrived there he settled in Cologne, West Germany as a political refugee. Shortly after an interview on Radio Free Europe in which he criticized Romania's communist regime, Coe was found dead in his apartment on 19 October 1981. His wife and his daughter found him hanged by the door handle with a rope around his neck and with his knees close to his mouth. The criminologist that investigated the case told them that he had never seen someone hang himself in such a way, therefore he recorded it as a suspicious death and it was subsequently believed that he was killed at the behest of the Romanian Securitate, but this has never been proven, his friend and fellow Romanian political refugee, Nora Nagy saying years later to the press:"I don't remember what Dan said at Free Europe. Anyway, once I got here I didn't pay that much attention to the station's broadcasts, but Dan was outspoken and always spoke his mind. However, I noticed one thing. After the collaboration with Free Europe began, all sorts of dubious characters began to appear around him. I suspected many of them to have connections with the Securitate". Honours Rapid București Divizia A: 1966–67 Balkans Cup: 1963–64, 1964–66 Notes References External links Dan Coe at Rafcmuseum.be 1941 births 1981 deaths Footballers from Bucharest Romanian people of Aromanian descent Aromanian sportspeople Romanian footballers Romania international footballers Romanian expatriate footballers Romanian defectors Liga I players Liga II players FC Rapid București players Royal Antwerp F.C. players FCM Dunărea Galați players Olympic footballers of Romania Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics 1970 FIFA World Cup players Expatriate footballers in Belgium Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium