Mihai Flamaropol (9 April 1919 – 30 June 1985) was a Romanian

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player and

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and a

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. 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. 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. The

Mihai Flamaropol Skating Rink Mihai Flamaropol Skating Rink ( ro, 'Patinoarul Mihai Flamaropol') was an arena in Bucharest, Romania. It was primarily used for ice hockey, being the home of the club Steaua Rangers and holding 8,000 people. Mihai Flamaropol was a former ice h ...

from

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is named in his honor.

Football career

Mihai Flamaropol made his

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debut on 10 May 1940, playing for Juventus București under coach

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in a 5–2 home victory in which he scored a goal against

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. In his following game in the league he managed to score again in a 3–1 loss against

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, however at the end of his first season spent at

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, the club relegated to

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, but Flamaropol stayed with the club, scoring 6 goals in 14 matches from the

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season, helping the club promote back to the first division after one year. In 1952 he went to play for

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for two seasons, winning the championship in both seasons, at the first contributing with 3 goals in 7 appearances and at the second he played 8 matches and scored one goal. Flamaropol made his last

appearance on 17 May 1953, playing for

in a 4–0 victory against Locomotiva Timișoara, having a total of 48 goals scored in 118 matches in the competition. He also played four matches for Romania's national team, making his debut under coach

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on 20 June 1948 in a 1948 Balkan Cup match which ended with a 3–2 home victory against

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, a game in which he was sent off in the 74th minute. His following game was also at the 1948 Balkan Cup in which he replaced

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in the 77th minute of a 2–1 home victory against

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. Flamaropol's last two appearances for the national team were friendlies, the first one being a 6–0 victory against

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, 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

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in a 2–2 against

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Ice hockey career

He started his ice hockey career in 1936 at Telefon Club București. Because Telefon Club dissolved its hockey team, in 1940 he transferred to new founded club

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which he captained at age 21 in the winning of the 1940 league. After that season Rapid's ice hockey section was dissolved so he went to play for Juventus București until 1952, when he went at

. At CCA he was a player-coach and managed to win 5

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s. He was also a

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player. He ended his playing career in 1959, but continued to coach at Știința București, Constructorul,

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and Romania's ice hockey national team.

Writing

Mihai Flamaropol wrote a total of seven volumes, all of them being about football and ice hockey: * 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 *

: 1940–41 CCA București *

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1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

Cupa României The Cupa României ( en, Romanian Cup) is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. I ...

Ice hockey player

Telefon Club București *

: 1937 Rapid București *

: 1940 Juventus București *

: 1941, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1947 CCA București *

: 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959

Ice hockey coach

CCA București *

: 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959

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