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Ștefan Sameș

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Ștefan Sameș
Sameș with Romania
Personal information
Date of birth (1951-10-14)14 October 1951
Place of birth Dobroești, 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 FC Constanța 9 (1)
1983–1985 Rapid București 58 (0)
1986–1987 ROVA Roșiori
1988–1989 Siretul Pașcani
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

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

Club career

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"Ștefan was a special man and a devoted and strong footballer. When he shot at the goal, he would make the ball go oval, like the one at rugby."

–Marcel Răducanu, former Steaua teammate[1]

Ștefan Sameș was born on 14 October 1951 in Dobroești, Romania and started playing football in 1965 at age 14 for the youth side of Steaua București.[1][2][3][4] In 1971, he was loaned to Universitatea Craiova where he started his senior career, making his Divizia A debut on 28 November in a 1–1 with Petrolul Ploiești.[1][2][3][4]

After two seasons spent at "U" Craiova, Sameș returned to Steaua where in the 1975–76 season he helped the club win The Double, being used by coach Emerich Jenei in 31 league games in which he scored once, also appearing the full 90 minutes in the 2–1 win over CSU Galați from the Cupa României final.[2][4][5][6] In the following season he reached another Cupa României final, Jenei using him the whole match in the eventual 2–1 loss in front of his former club, Universitatea Craiova.[2][4][7] In the 1977–78 season, Sameș scored one goal in the 21 league games that Jenei used him, helping the club win another title.[2][4][5] In the next two seasons, he reached two more Cupa României finals, coach Gheorghe Constantin using him all the minutes in both, the first one being a 3–0 win over Sportul Studențesc București and in the one from 1980, the team lost with 2–1 in front of Politehnica Timișoara.[2][4][8][9] In his ten seasons spell spent with The Military Men he also played 12 matches in European competitions, scoring two goals in a 6–0 win over Young Boys from the 1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup.[2][4][10] For the way he played in 1979, Sameș was placed first in the ranking for the Romanian Footballer of the Year award.[1][4][11][12]

In the middle of the 1982–83 season, Sameș went to play for FC Constanța where he was teammate with a young Gheorghe Hagi, however the spell was unsuccessful as the team relegated to Divizia B at the end of the season.[2][4] He switched teams again, going to play for Rapid București where on 27 October 1985 in a 1–0 away loss with Sportul Studențesc he made his last appearance in Divizia A, having a total of 388 games with 21 goals scored in the competition.[1][2][4] Sameș ended his career in 1989 after playing several seasons in Divizia B at ROVA Roșiori and Siretul Pașcani.[1][2][4]

International career

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Sameș played 46 matches and scored three goals at international level for Romania, making his debut on 18 April 1973 under coach Valentin Stănescu in a friendly with Soviet Union which ended with a 2–0 loss.[13][14][15] His following game was Romania's biggest ever victory, a 9–0 against Finland at the 1974 World Cup qualifiers.[13][16] He played in all four games at the 1978 World Cup qualifiers which consist of two wins over Spain and Yugoslavia and two losses in front of the same teams.[13] Sameș then played in five games at the Euro 1980 qualifiers in which he scored a double in a 3–2 win with Yugoslavia and also captained The Tricolours for the first time in a 2–0 over Cyprus.[4][11][13] He also captained Romania in both legs of the 4–3 aggregate victory with Yugoslavia from the 1977–80 Balkan Cup final.[13] In the following years he played six games at the 1982 World Cup qualifiers which include a 2–1 victory and a 0–0 with England, making his last appearance for the national team in an away friendly with East Germany which took place on 17 November 1982 that was lost with 4–1.[3][13]

He also played for the Romania's Olympic team.[17]

International goals

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Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sameș goal.[13]
List of international goals scored by Ștefan Sameș
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 4 December 1974 Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel  Israel 1–0 1–0 Friendly
2 25 October 1978 Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest, Romania  Yugoslavia 1–1 3–2 Euro 1980 qualifiers
3 2–1

Coaching career

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After he ended his career, Sameș had a spell as head coach at Universitatea Cluj for the final rounds of the 1989–90 Divizia A season, helping the team finish on the 13th place.[18]

Afterwards he coached at Steaua's youth academy from 1992 until 2011.[3][19]

Personal life and death

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Sameș had two siblings, Petruţa and Gheorghiţă.[20] Two times Champions League winner, Miodrag Belodedici claimed that Sameș was his childhood idol, the two being teammates for a short while at Steaua.[19] In the early 1980s, his wife, son and father-in-law fled illegally from Romania's communist regime to West Germany for which he was kicked out from Steaua, even do he was the team's captain.[1][4][11]

On 17 July 2011, Sameș died in a Bucharest hospital at the age of 59 after suffering from cancer.[1]

Honours

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Player

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Steaua București

Romania

Individual

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Ultima dorință a lui Sameș: de pe patul de spital, a trimis vorbă să-i fie chemați toți prietenii la înmormântare" [Sameș's last wish: from his hospital bed, he sent word to call all his friends to the funeral] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 18 July 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ștefan Sameș at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  3. ^ a b c d "Ultimul interviu al lui Stefan Sames pentru ziarul "ring"" [The last interview of Stefan Sames for the "ring" newspaper] (in Romanian). Ziarulring.ro. 18 July 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Ștefan Sameș - fiu de legendă al Stelei" [Ștefan Sameș - legendary son of Steaua] (in Romanian). Fcsteaua.ro. 13 February 2025. Archived from the original on 30 April 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Romanian Cup - Season 1975 - 1976". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Romanian Cup - Season 1976 - 1977". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  8. ^ a b "Romanian Cup - Season 1979 - 1980". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  9. ^ "Romanian Cup - Season 1978 - 1979". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  10. ^ "Ștefan Sameș. Cup Winners Cup 1979/1980". WorldFootball. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
    "Steaua și-a egalat cea mai categorică victorie în Cupele Europene, după 35 de ani!" [Steaua equaled its most decisive victory in the European Cups, after 35 years!] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 19 September 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  11. ^ a b c "Dorința neîmplinită a lui Fane. Am vizitat casa în care regretatul mare internațional Ștefan Sameș și-a petrecut copilăria" [Fane's unfulfilled wish. We visited the house where the late international great Ștefan Sameș spent his childhood] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  12. ^ a b "Romania - Player of the Year Awards". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h "Ștefan Sameș". European Football. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  14. ^ "Soviet Union 2-0 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  15. ^ "Romania – Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 14 December 2008.
  16. ^ "Sandu și ceilalți "eroi" din 1973, despre culisele victoriei istorice cu 9-0 cu Finlanda" [Sandu and the other "heroes" from 1973, about the backstage of the historic 9-0 victory over Finland] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  17. ^ "Ștefan Sameș profile". 11v11. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  18. ^ "Universitatea Cluj 1989–90 season" (in Romanian). 4everucluj.ro.
  19. ^ a b "Acum un an trecea în nefiinţă Ștefan Sameș, unul dintre cei mai mari" [One year ago, Ștefan Sameș, one of the greatest defenders in the history of Steaua, passed away] (in Romanian). Libertatea.ro. 14 July 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  20. ^ Gavrilescu, Richard. Am vizitat casa în care regretatul mare internaţional Ştefan Sameş şi-a petrecut copilăria. Libertatea Retrieved 10 February 2021.
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