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] 131 (66)
1952–1953 CCA București 15 (4)
Total 146 (70)
International career
1948–1951 Romania 4 (0)

*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 January 2020

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

Mihai Flamaropol (9 April 1919 – 30 June 1985) was a Romanian footballer, ice hockey player and coach and a writer.[1][4][5] 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.[4] 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.[4] The Mihai Flamaropol Skating Rink from București is named in his honor.[4]

Football career

Mihai Flamaropol made his Divizia A debut on 10 May 1940, playing for Juventus București under coach Coloman Braun-Bogdan in a 5–2 home victory in which he scored a goal against UD Reșița.[1][6] In his following game in the league he managed to score again in a 3–1 loss against Unirea Tricolor București, however at the end of his first season spent at Juventus, the club relegated to Divizia B, but Flamaropol stayed with the club, scoring 6 goals in 14 matches from the 1940–41 Divizia B season, helping the club promote back to the first division after one year, however he they not get to play in Divizia A as the championship was interrupted because of World War II.[6][7][8] After the war ended, the first season was the 1945–46 București championship in which he was the team's top-goalscorer with 16 goals in 14 appearances which helped Juventus earn the 4th place which granted them the participation in the 1946–47 Divizia A.[3] In 1952 he went to play for CCA București for two seasons, winning the championship in both of them, at the first contributing with 3 goals in 7 appearances and in the second he played 8 matches, scoring one goal.[1][8] Flamaropol made his last Divizia A appearance on 17 May 1953, playing for CCA București in a 4–0 victory against Locomotiva Timișoara, having a total of 48 goals scored in 118 matches in the competition.[1]

He also played four matches for Romania's national team, making his debut under coach Iuliu Baratky on 20 June 1948 in a 1948 Balkan Cup match which ended with a 3–2 home victory against Bulgaria, a game in which he was sent off in the 74th minute.[8][9][10] His following game was also at the 1948 Balkan Cup in which he replaced Andrei Mercea in the 77th minute of a 2–1 home victory against Czechoslovakia.[9][11] Flamaropol's last two appearances for the national team were friendlies, the first one being a 6–0 victory against Albania, this being the only game in which he played all the minutes for the national team and his last appearance took place on 20 May 1951 in which he was replaced at half-time by Gheorghe Băcuț in a 2–2 against Czechoslovakia.[9][12][13]

Ice hockey career

He started his ice hockey career in 1936 at Telefon Club București.[4] Because Telefon Club dissolved its 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.[4][14][15] 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.[4][8][14] At CCA he was a player-coach and managed to win 5 Romanian Hockey Leagues.[4][8][16] He was also a national team player.[4][17] He ended his playing career in 1959, but continued to coach at Știința București, Constructorul, Dinamo București and Romania's ice hockey national team.[4][8][17]

Writing

Mihai Flamaropol wrote a total of seven volumes, all of them being about football and ice hockey:[4][18]

  • 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

Juventus București

CCA București

Ice hockey player

Telefon Club București

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 with the exception of the 1945–46 regional championship.[1][2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Mihai Flamaropol at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. 1 2 3 Mihai Flamaropol at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. 1 2 "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XXIV – "Ultimul șut aduce promovarea"" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XXIV - "The Last Shot Gets the Promotion"] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "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.
  5. ↑ "Poveștile de început ale hocheiului românesc" [The stories from the beginning of Romanian hockey] (in Romanian). Historia.ro. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  6. 1 2 "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XX – Reorganizare păguboasă" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XX – Damaged reorganization] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 8 June 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  7. 1 2 "File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XXI – "Promovare pentru niciunde"" [Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XXI – "Promotion to Nowhere"] (in Romanian). Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Alfred Eisenbeisser to Bondoc Ionescu-Crum: Romanian legends who excelled in multiple sports". Fifa.com. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  9. 1 2 3 "Mihai Flamaropol". European Football. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "Romania 3-2 Bulgaria". European Football. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  11. ↑ "Romania 2-1 Czechoslovakia". European Football. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  12. ↑ "Romania 6-0 Albania". European Football. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  13. ↑ "Czechoslovakia 2-2 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "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.
  15. ↑ "Flamaropol campion cu Rapid. La hochei!" [Flamaropol champion with Rapid. At ice hockey!] (in Romanian). 1923.ro. 8 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  16. ↑ "Hochei pe gheata – Istoric" [Ice Hockey – History] (in Romanian). Csasteaua.ro. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  17. 1 2 "Istoria sportului romanesc: Hochei pe gheaţă" [The history of Romanian sport: Ice hockey] (in Romanian). Agerpres.ro. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  18. ↑ "Mihai Flamaropol" (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
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