Ștefan Sameș

Ştefan Sameş

Personal information
Full name	Ştefan Sameş
Date of birth	(1951-10-14)14 October 1951
Place of birth	Dobroiești, Romania
Date of death
Place of death	Bucureşti, Romania
Height
Position(s)	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)
International career
1973–1982	Romania	47	(3)
Managerial career
1990	Universitatea Cluj
1992–2011	Steaua Bucureşti (youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ştefan Sameş (14 October 1951 – 17 July 2011) was a Romanian professional football player and manager.

Career

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.

Honours

Season	Club	Title
1975–1976	Steaua Bucureşti	Liga I
1975–1976	Steaua Bucureşti	Cupa României
1977–1978	Steaua Bucureşti	Liga I
1978–1979	Steaua Bucureşti	Cupa României

Personal

On 17 July 2011, Sameş died in a Bucharest hospital after suffering from cancer for six months.

External links

• Ștefan Sameș – FIFA competition record
• Ștefan Sameș at National-Football-Teams.com
• Player profile at RomanianSoccer.ro
• Interview with Ştefan Sameş ziarulring.ro (Romanian)