Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ştefan Sameş | ||
Date of birth | 14 October 1951 | ||
Place of birth | Dobroiești, Romania | ||
Date of death | 17 July 2011 | (aged 59)||
Place of death | Bucharest, Romania | ||
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Centre back | ||
Youth career | |||
1965–1971 | Steaua Bucureşti | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1971–1982 | Steaua Bucureşti | 274 | (20) |
1971–1973 | → Univ. Craiova (loan) | 46 | (0) |
1982–1983 | Farul Constanţa | 9 | (1) |
1983–1985 | Rapid Bucureşti | 58 | (0) |
1986–1987 | ROVA Roşiori | ||
1988–1989 | Siretul Paşcani | ||
Total | 387 | (21) | |
National team | |||
1973–1982 | Romania | 47 | (3) |
Teams managed | |||
1990 | Universitatea Cluj | ||
1992–2011 | Steaua Bucureşti (youth) | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Ştefan Sameş (14 October 1951 – 17 July 2011) was a Romanian professional football player and manager.
Born in Dobroiești, Sameş began playing football for the youth side of FC Steaua Bucureşti. He made his Romanian first division debut at age 19, playing for FC Universitatea Craiova while on loan from Steaua during 1971. After two seasons in Craiova, he returned to Steaua and made 274 league appearances for the club and was named Romanian footballer of the year in 1979.
Sameş made 47 appearances for the senior Romania national football team, including eleven FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.
After he retired from playing football, Sameş became a football manager and coached Steaua's youth academy from 1992 until 2011.
On 17 July 2011, Sameş died in a Bucharest hospital after suffering from cancer for six months.