Name: Nicolae Simatoc



Country: / Romania/Moldova
Club: F.C. Internazionale Milano (1947-1949), Brescia Calcio (1949-1950), FC Barcelona (1950-1951)
Position: *AMF, CMF
Side: RF/BS
Age: 27-31 years (01/05/1920)

Height: 192 cm
Weight: 87 kg

Attack: 82
Defence: 40
Balance: 90
Stamina: 75
Top Speed: 75
Acceleration: 72
Response: 74
Agility: 70
Dribble Accuracy: 87
Dribble Speed: 73
Short Pass Accuracy: 91
Short Pass Speed: 81
Long Pass Accuracy: 87
Long Pass Speed: 80
Shot Accuracy: 75
Shot Power: 84
Shot Technique: 78
Free Kick Accuracy: 75
Swerve: 76
Header: 77
Jump: 75
Technique: 90
Aggression: 76
Mentality: 67
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 83

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition/Fitness: 5
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 5
Growth Type: Standard


CARDS:
P03: Classic NO.10
P05: Trickster
P08: Pinpoint Pass
P20: Talisman
S02: Passer

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Tactical Dribble - Playmaking - Passing - Centre

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded


INFO:

Nicolae Simatoc is former Romanian-Moldovan player who played for lot of teams in Europe. He was right wing half and inside right, very tall and strong but lazy and didn't like to run, pretty slow but excellent passer with great lucidity and vision, good technician with numerous assists, pretty strong player. Born in 1920, Briceni, Moldova, on the border with Ukraine and Romania, Simatoc has an incredible life story. Basically, through the ball round and grace with which God endowed managed to dribble all the evils that were watching. His parents, intellectuals rasat have provided returns Russians in Bessarabia, so did not stay long in thought in 1934, when an emissary of the only professional football club at the time, Ripensia Timisoara, Cole spotted and suggested the whole family displacement near the Bega. Simatoc debuted four years later, at 18, the team Timisoara. In 1940 the Russians came back to Bessarabia. It was the first time Simatoc family, thanks to football, dribble a totalitarian system. Simatoc play against AC Milan in the great Central European Cup, the noted Italian coaches in 1938. Midfielder 1.92 cm high, bearing shoe 48, Simatoc was selected 8 times the national team of Romania. He starred in Oradea and Bucharest Carmen, but had the misfortune to its glory years in Romania, to coincide with World War II. Shortly before the abdication of King Michael I of Romania, on 30 December 1947, again guessing its history, Simatoc go to Italy, where he had a tempting offer from Rome. The first man that comes her way but is legendary Giuseppe Meazza, the Inter Milan distorting it. Meazza's strong argument was that the family of Nicholas Simatoc can be made in Italy. Times were troubled, so do not hesitate Romanian international. At that time it was a huge scandal on this work, the two Italian clubs. At Inter, Simatoc manages 3 goals in 17 matches. In 1949 it transferred to Brescia where playing in 30 games a season and marks 8 times. It was the second time Simatoc to dribble a totalitarian regime, thanks to football. Communists came to power in Romania, shortly after his transfer to Inter Milan perfection. Transfer to Barcelona in 1950, where extraordinary debut with a goal and three assists in front of Real Sociedad. Has a match against Real Madrid, the Catalans 7-2 in the record. Total 34 matches and two goals in colors blau-grana. Champion of Spain with Barca, he played a short and Real Oviedo. Romanian communists withdraw his citizenship, however, Simatoc receiving documents from the Red Cross, with which to travel. Married to a Hungarian, fluent in 8 languages: Romanian, Russian, Hungarian, German, English, French, Italian and Spanish. Tumultuous history gives no peace of Simatoc, which in 1963 is again forced to leave. In the Iberian Peninsula, Franco's dictatorial regime did not allow people without a passport. So Simatoc reach round ball riding in distant Australia, where he was modest teams coach. It was the third time with football Simatoc avoid a dictatorial regime. He died in Sydney on January 1, 1978.