Mihai Flamaropol

Mihai Flamaropol (9 April 1919 – 30 June 1985) was a Romanian footballer, ice hockey player and coach and a writer.[1][3][4] Flamaropol started playing football at Gloria București when he was 12 years old and at 17 he started to play ice hockey at Telefon Club București.[3] He competed in both sports until he retired from football at age 35, but continued to play ice hockey until he was 40 years old.[3] The Mihai Flamaropol Skating Rink from București is named in his honor.[3]

Mihai Flamaropol
Personal information
Date of birth (1919-04-09)9 April 1919[1]
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania[1]
Date of death 30 June 1985(1985-06-30) (aged 66)[1]
Place of death Bucharest, Romania
Position(s) Striker[1][2]
Youth career
1931–1938 Gloria București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1951 Juventus București[lower-alpha 1] 103 (44)
1952–1953 CCA Bucureşti 15 (4)
Total 118 (48)
National team
1948–1951 Romania 4 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 January 2020

Ice hockey career
Played for Telefon Club Bucureşti
Rapid București
Juventus București
CCA București
National team  Romania
Playing career 1936–1959

Football career

Mihai Flamaropol has a total of 48 goals scored in 118 matches in the Romanian top division Divizia A.[1] He also played four matches for Romania's national team, including two at the 1948 Balkan Cup.[5]

Ice hockey career

He started his ice hockey career in 1936 at Telefon Club București.[3] Because Telefon Club dissolved it's hockey team, in 1940 he transferred to new founded club Rapid București which he captained at age 21 in the winning of the 1940 league.[3][6][7] After that season Rapid's ice hockey section was dissolved so he went to play for Juventus București until 1952, when he went at CCA București.[3][6] At CCA he was a player-coach and managed to win 5 Romanian Hockey Leagues.[3][8] He was also a national team player.[3][9] He ended his playing career in 1959, but continued to coach at Știința București, Constructorul, Dinamo București and Romania's ice hockey national team.[3][9]

Writing

Mihai Flamaropol wrote a total of seven volumes, all of them being about football and ice hockey:[3][10]

  • Hochei pe gheață (Ice hockey) (1962)
  • 50 de ani de hochei în România (50 years of hockey in Romania) (1976)
  • Amintiri din fotbal și hochei (Memories from football and hockey) (1981)
  • Fotbal (Football) (1984)
  • Fotbal - cadran mondial (Football - world dial) (1984)
  • Fotbal - cadran românesc (Football - Romanian dial) (1986)
  • Însemnările unui sportiv (The marks of a sportsman)

Honours

Footballer
CCA București

Ice hockey player
Telefon Club Bucureşti
Rapid București
Juventus București
CCA București

Ice hockey coach
CCA București

Notes
  1. The Divizia A 1940–41 was the last season before World War II and the Divizia A 1946–47 was the first one after, so the appearances and goals scored during this period for Juventus București are not official.[1]

References
  1. Mihai Flamaropol at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian) and StatisticsFootball.com
  2. Mihai Flamaropol at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. "Mihai Flamaropol sportivul care s-a impartit intre doua mari pasiuni: fotbal si hochei" [Mihai Flamaropol the sportsman who split between two great passions: football and hockey] (in Romanian). Independentaromana.ro. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  4. "Poveștile de început ale hocheiului românesc" [The stories from the beginning of Romanian hockey] (in Romanian). Historia.ro. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  5. "Mihai Flamaropol". European Football. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  6. "Rapid, campioană națională în doar câteva luni de viață vișinie a secției" [Rapid, national champion in the just a few months since the founding of the club] (in Romanian). 1923.ro. 25 December 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  7. "Flamaropol campion cu Rapid. La hochei!" [Flamaropol champion with Rapid. At ice hockey!] (in Romanian). 1923.ro. 8 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  8. "Hochei pe gheata - Istoric" [Ice Hockey - History] (in Romanian). Csasteaua.ro. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  9. "Istoria sportului romanesc: Hochei pe gheaţă" [The history of Romanian sport: Ice hockey] (in Romanian). Agerpres.ro. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  10. "Mihai Flamaropol" (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
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