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	17 July 2011(2011-07-17) (aged 59)
Place of death	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Youth career
1965–1971	Steaua București
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1971–1982	Steaua București	274	(20)
1971–1973	→ Universitatea Craiova (loan)	46	(0)
1982–1983	Farul Constanţa	9	(1)
1983–1985	Rapid București	58	(0)
1986–1987	ROVA Roşiori
1988–1989	Siretul Paşcani
Total		387	(21)
International career
1975–1980	Romania Olympic	3	(0)
1973–1982	Romania	46	(3)
Managerial career
1990	Universitatea Cluj
1992–2011	Steaua București (youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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 Steaua Bucuresti.^[1] 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.^[2]

Sameş made 46 appearances for the senior Romania national football team, including eleven FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.^[3] He also has three caps for Romania's Olympic team.^[4]

After he retired from playing football, Sameş became a football manager and coached Steaua's youth academy from 1992 until 2011.

Individual

• Romanian Footballer of the Year: 1979, (third place): 1981, (fifth place): 1978,

On 17 July 2011, Sameş died in a Bucharest hospital after suffering from cancer for six months.^[2]

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