Universitatea Craiova - Tavria Simferopol 1-4

Yesterday Universitatea Craiova lost a friendly game with 4-1 against a team from Ukraine called Tavria Simferopol. Our goal was scored by Jeremie N'Jock. It deserves to be mentioned that Mircea Bornescu missed the goal at a penalty kick. Yes, you red right. At Universitatea Craiova there is a goalkeeper who kicks all the penalties.

You may see some images below:

Thomas Korontai

This is the new fitness trainer of Universitatea Craiova. His name is Thomas Korontai and he came in Romania from Germany. Stefan Crisan, our goalkeeper trainer, brought Thomas from Nurenberg.

For the next 2 weeks Thomas and Stefan will join the entire team in Cyprus for the preparation of the second part of Romanian Football Championship. We wish them good luck and we hope they will do a great job.

FC Caracal - Universitatea Craiova 1-1

Today Universitatea Craiova played another friendly game. At 14:00 o'clock Craiova played against FC Caracal. The final result was 1-1. The goals were scored by Sergiu Popescu (for Fc Caracal) and Gabriel Velcovici (for Universitatea Craiova). You can see some images below.



Now our team will fly in Cyprus for 2 weeks of preparations until the start of the second part of Romanian Football Championship.

Universitatea Craiova - CFR Timisoara 2-0

Yesterday at 11:00 o'clock Universitatea Craiova played another friendly game. For this time, the opponent team was CFR Timisoara, 10th place on Second Romanian Football League.

Craiova did a good game and won by 2-0. The goal scorers were Jullius Wobay and Jeremy N'Jock. 2 football players who came in Craiova this winter.The trainer of Universitatea Craiova, Stefan Stoica, used in the first half of the game, the following players: Bornescu - Dananae, Mitchell, Tambouras, Rose - Argintaru, Saceanu, Stoica, Dina - Njock, Wobay. In the second half played also for Craiova: Velcovici, Garla, Curteanu, Ignat, Piko, Costea II and Barboianu.

After this match, Stefan Stoica concluded: Stefan Stoica: "I did not like the second half of the game. I'd like Universitatea Craiova to be a fighter. In the second half, my team did not fight as in the first one."

Universitatea Craiova's Official Fan Store

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Universitatea Craiova - Minerul Lupeni 1-0

Today Universitatea Craiova debuted in its first football match on 2007. It was a friendly game played at Herculane, a nice place in Romanian mountains, against Minerul Lupeni, a team placed on the front of second Romanian football league.

In the first 45 minutes the team was composed from: Bornescu, Dananae, Ciuca, Mitchell, Velcovici, Stoica, Rose, NJock, Wobay, Garla, Saceanu. In the second half of the game, were used the following players: Banica, Barboianu, Ignat, Tambouras, Curteanu, Argintaru, Piko, Gargalie, Velcovici, Dina, Costea II.

So, only Velcovici played 90 minutes for Craiova. In fact he was the only scorer of this game because of his goal from 83rd minute of the game. Argintaru did a good passing shot and Velcovici made all the supporters of this game happy.

We have some opinions after this game.
Adrian Mititelu (the owner of the club): "It seems Wobay is the player who we were expected and in the following games you will see this."
Stefan Stoica (Universitatea Craiova's trainer): "It was an useful test. We came after 3 very hard trainnig sessions made yesterday and nobody forced to win this game."

John Tambouras comes to Craiova

The central defender of New Zealand Knights, comes this Wednesday in Craiova for training with Universitatea Craiova. Stefan Stoica has good references about this football player and he wants to see John Tambouras playing for our team.

On January the 10th, at the same time with the others Australians will be present the Greek origin Aussie named John Tambouras. He was born in January 30th 1979, and comes to Craiova for free. He played football for South Melbourne(Australia), Kalamata (Greece), Auckland Knights(New Zealand), Pahand(Malaya) and New Zealand Knights(New Zealand) where he was colleague with Joshua Rose (who play for Craiova from this past summer).

Stefan Stoica knows him from Kalamata, a former Greek good team which used to play in European cups in the time he was working in Greece. Let's wait and see what can Tambouras do.