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Nicolae Simatoc
	Simatoc in 1950
Personal information
Date of birth	1 May 1920
Place of birth	Grimăncăuți, Kingdom of Romania
Date of death	2 December 1979 (aged 59)
Place of death	Sydney, Australia
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1934–1938	Ripensia Timişoara
Senior career*
Years	Team
1938–1941	Ripensia Timişoara
1941–1942	Carmen București
1942–1944	Nagyváradi AC
1945	Vasas
1945–1947	Carmen București
1947–1949	Inter Milan
1949–1950	Brescia
1950	Hungaria FbC Roma
1950–1952	Barcelona
1952–1953	Real Oviedo
Total
International career
1940–1946	Romania
Managerial career
1959–1960	UE Lleida
1960–1961	Sabadell
1962–1963	AEL Limassol
1963–1968	Budapest Sydney
1969–1972	Polonia Western Eagles
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nicolae Simatoc (also known as Miklós Szegedi; 1 May 1920 – 2 December 1979) was a Romanian football manager and player. A midfielder, he played for a number of clubs throughout Europe, including Ripensia Timişoara and Carmen București in Romania, Nagyváradi AC in Hungary, Inter Milan and Brescia in Italy, and Barcelona and Real Oviedo in Spain. After retiring as a player he became a coach, and managed Spanish side UE Lleida between 1959 and 1960, and CE Sabadell FC between 1960 and 1961.^[4] He then coached Budapest Sydney and Polonia Western Eagles.^[5]

Legacy

A stadium in Lozova, Moldova is named after him.^[6]

Personal life

Simatoc was born to Romanian parents in Grimăncăuți, present-day Moldova. He was raised Romanian Orthodox by his family. He was also known as Miklós Szegedi while playing in Hungary. Simatoc was married to a Hungarian woman named Etelka Stolárcsik, with whom he had two sons. One of them, Silvio, born in 1950, had followed his father's footsteps and played in lower leagues in Spain and Australia.^[7]