Club 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 1967 and 1978. 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).
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