Universitatea Craiova's Official Fan Store

On December 22nd, Universitatea Craiova opened its Official Fan Store. This premiere was a good present for the fans of this beloved team. A big number of fans were waiting in front of this store this big event. The total amount of sale in the first 2 days after opening was around of 15,000 Euro. That was a record on Romanian sport market, because no other football team reported such a success until now.We are waiting for the on-line store to be opened soon.

Jeremie N'Jock is back at Universitatea Craiova

The Giant Is Back

Universitatea paid $400,000 to French football team Brest for the transfer of Jeremie N'Jock, who will play in Craiova until 2010.

The second bomb on transfer market in this winter is a former player of Universitatea Craiova, the striker Jeremie N'Jock, who accepted to come back here after 2 years. Universitatea agreed with the French football club Brest and paid $400,000 for the 26 years old Cameroon player. Last night, at 20:00 o'clock these 2 clubs agreed, and the management stuff of Universitatea Craiova who went at Brest took the transfer papers. "The Giant" has 1.96m height, 93Kg and foot measure 47!! He also played in Romania at UTA (23 games, 9 goals), Universitatea Craiova (33 games, 15 goals) and in Belgium at Mons (33 games, 18 goals) and France, Mons (17 games, 1 goal).

Julius Gibrilla Wobay signed for Craiova

Universitatea bought, for $450.000, 22 years old midfield from Sierra Leone, from NEA Salamina-Cyprus team.

Wobay is a left foot player, has a rare explosion, is very technique and quick too. I am sure he will be one from the first three players from Romanian First Football League. He will conquer Universitatea Craiova's fans from the first friendly games.

Ştefan Stoica

The first player brought by Universitatea Craiova in this winter comes from Sierra Leone via Cyprus. His name is Julius Gibrilla Woobay and he plays for Sierra Leone National Football Team. He was born on May 19th 1984 and plays as an offensive midfield, a kind of second striker. The price of this player was $450.000 and this is the most expansive transfer made by Universitatea Craiova. This amount is bigger than any other sum payed for  Radu Niculescu, Adrian Toader, Daniel Chirita or Cristian Chivu. Wobay signed for 4 years and a half and he will came in Craiova this Wednesday.

Olympiakos Pireu was also interested in bringing Wobay

More Cyprus teams were interested to buy Wobay. One of them was Omonia Nicosia, the team which has Romanian Ioan Andone as a trainer, but also the champions of Greece, Olympiakos Pireu, wanted him. "Our luck was the fact that Olympiakos Pireu already had too much foreign player in their team, so we succeded to bring Wobay at Craiova", said Fane Stoica. Last spring, Vitoria Guimaraes wanted to buy Wobay, but in the last the deal wasn't made. In the last season, Wobay was the second in the goal scorers table from Cyprus championship. He did 12 goals last year and 4 goals in this season. The most famous football player from Sierra Leone was the former player of Inter Milano and AS Monaco, Mohammed Kallon.

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«I barely wait to beat Dinamo and Steaua!»

Wobay weared already Universitatea Craiova T-shirt and he will officially play this spring.

Reporter: Are you happy you signed for Universitatea Craiova?

Julius Gibrilla Wobay: I am very happy I arrived at Universitatea, I've heard it is a good team. I don't now much about this team but I learn quick and I will know more until the meeting with my new colleagues.

How do you see your future at Craiova?

First of all I hope to be chosen to play in the first team, I hope to gather as much as possible points is possible and I barely wait to beat Dinamo and Steaua, because I did understood is a big competition between these teams.

What do you say to the fans?

I wish them Merry Christmas and all the best. I promise I will do all my best for Universitatea Craiova and I hope to realise high performances shortly.

Joshua Rose's Wedding

At Joshua Rose's wedding were Michael Baird and Dan Stanilescu. All of them sent us the best wishes for Universitatea Craiova and its fans. At this event, Josh Mitchell, who lives in Newcastle, was missing. He couldn't arrive in time in Gold Coast. The celebration took place at Aqua Restaurant from Broadwarer, Gold Coast. There were 80 guests at this wedding and they had fun from 15.30 until 00.30. You may see some images from the wedding of Joshua Rose with Jeni here.

Universitatea Craiova - Steaua Bucharest 0-0

Great fight. Nice game. No goals. Universitatea Craiova - Steaua Bucharest 0-0.
The intermediate table shows like this:
1 Dinamo 19 17 1 1 41-10 52 +22
2 Steaua 19 11 6 2 37-10 39 +9
3 Rapid 19 10 6 3 33-14 36 +6
4 CFR Cluj 19 11 3 5 38-24 36 +9
5 Poli Tm. 19 9 5 5 20-14 32 +2
6 Gloria 19 9 3 7 24-19 30 0
7 Vaslui 19 8 4 7 25-29 28 -2
8 Otelul 19 8 3 8 24-32 27 0
9 UTA 19 7 3 9 17-20 24 -6
10 Poli Iasi 19 6 6 7 22-26 24 -3
11 Craiova 19 6 6 7 22-33 24 -6
12 Pandurii 19 6 5 8 15-20 23 -4
13 Urziceni 19 6 4 9 14-19 22 -5
14 Farul 19 5 6 8 20-21 21 -6
15 Ceahlaul 19 5 2 12 13-29 17 -10
16 Arges 19 4 2 13 13-26 14 -16
17 Jiul 19 3 5 11 9-24 14 -13
18 National 19 3 4 12 13-30 13 -14

FC Vaslui - Universitatea Craiova 3-3

The goals of Universitatea Craiova were scored by A. Ionescu, Fl. Parvu and G. Velcovici. This was an heart attack game. Fc Vaslui had a penalty kick in the 5th minute of the game. Croitoru tried to score but Mircea Bornescu, Universitatea's goalkeeper caught the ball. More than this Andrei Ionescu scored by a beautiful shoot form 25 metres and Craiova had 1-0. In the second half Lucian Parvu scored again for Craiova and the score became 2-0. Fc Vaslui reduced the difference at 2-1, but Gabriel Velcovici scored again for Craiova. It was the 82nd minute of the game and Craiova had 3-1. In the last 10 minutes of this game FC Vaslui scored twice and the final result was 3-3. Universitatea Craiova won only a point in this game even they deserved to came home with all the 3 points from Vaslui.

Andrei Ionescu scores for 1-0

Lucian Parvu scores for 2-0

Gabriel Velcovici scores for 3-1

Unfortunately, a football game has 90 minutes and an extra time.