Mihai Flamaropol


Mihai Flamaropol was a Romanian footballer, ice hockey player and coach and a writer. 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 from București is named in his honor.

Football career

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

Ice hockey career

He started his ice hockey career in 1936 at Telefon Club București. 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. 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. At CCA he was a player-coach and managed to win 5 Romanian Hockey Leagues. He was also a national team player. He ended his playing career in 1959, but continued to coach at Știința București, Constructorul, Dinamo București 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:

Footballer

;CCA București
;Telefon Club Bucureşti
;Rapid București
;Juventus București
;CCA București
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