Mihai Flamaropol

Mihai Flamaropol (9 April 1919 – 30 June 1985) 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 Bucharest is named in his honor.
==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 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.
==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.
==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)
==References==
Category:Romanian ice hockey players