Universitatea Craiova - Otelul Galati 0-1

Universitatea Craiova lost another game at home. It is really a shame the points gathered away are naturaly spread on Ion Oblemenco stadium.

Before starting of this game it was a moment for the memory of Adrian Paunescu, the legendary poet who passed away on 5th of November 2010. Universitatea's players had T-shirts with the message "Adrian Paunescu an immortal symbol." 24.000 viewers were in the stadium for this game. They had messages like: "Starting with today, it will be played Oltenia Eterna Terra Nova in the Heaven" and "Maestro, Oltenia cryies after you".

Universitatea Craiova played a good game but, unfortunately Otelul Galati scored in the 22nd minute and Stiinta could not score for draw all the rest of the game.

Our team: 1.Stanca - 18.Dănănae, 7.Găman, 6.Ciucă, 2.Bărboianu - 5.D. Stoica - 77.Wobay ('74 25.Firtulescu), 30.Prepeliţă, 23.Gargorov ('58 9.M. Costea), 20.Dina - 27.Piţurcă ('72 28.Gangioveanu)

R.I.P. Adrian Paunescu

Adrian Paunescu, the greatest modern Romanian poet passed away on 5th of November. He was also a well known journalist and politician. He was the promoter of literary circle "The Flame".

Paunescu was one of the most prolific contemporary Romanian poets. His books have sold over 1 million copies, holding a record in this regard. Among his best known poems are:

Repeatable burden

Pray for parents

Illiterates

Make love on guns

Still the love

The shadow

Exit from stove

He wrote the text of Universitatea Craiova's anthem, "Song for Oltenia" known also as "Oltenia eterna Terra Nova", and he was a big fan of our football team. Rest in peace Adrian Paunescu.

Unirea Urziceni - Universitatea Craiova 1-2

Universitatea Craiova beautiful dream, "Champion of a great love" - one of the glorious verses of Oltenians must be restored by Victor Piturca. The sentimental part of this slogan was solved by the fans who returned to the team.

Unirea Urziceni scored six goals in 12 games before this match. Despite of this they won against Steaua and Dinamo Bucharest.

In the 10th minute of the game, it was a counterattack for Urziceni 2 against 2. Muzac passed perfect for Semedo but Stanca defended well our goal. In the 34th minute Todoran scored for 1-0. In the second half, Universitatea Craiova had a penalty kick and Gargorov scored for 1-1. He dedicated his goal to Valentin Iliev who is injured until next year.

In the 81st minute of the game Dananae had a perfect assist for Mihai Dina. The striker of Univeresitatea Craiova scored with a perfect head strike and our team had a beautiful victory against one the most defensive team in Liga I.

Our team: 1. Stanca - 18. Dananae, 7. Gaman, 6. Ciuca, 2. Barboianu - 5. Stoica, 77. Wobay ('90 25.Firtulescu), 13.Dilevski ('90 8.Ologu), 23. Gargorov - 20. Dina, 27. Al. Piturca ('68 9.M.Costea)

Pandurii Tg Jiu - Universitatea Craiova 0-2

Universitatea Craiova won another game, this time against Pandurii Tg Jiu and passed to the next phase of Cup of Romania. It was really a great game played on a really hard field. Anyhow, Stiinta had 1000 fans present at this game and they did a great ambiance for it.

Our team played well and the result was the one which we all expected to be. There were a lot of beautiful goal situations, and the goalkeeper of Pandurii, Mingote, saved his team many times. Our goals were scored by Jullius Wobay ('33) and Andrei Prepelita ('54).

Our team: 21.Lung Jr. - 18.Dananae, 7.Gaman, 6.Ciuca, 2.Barboianu - 30.Prepelita, 5.D. Stoica, 33.Gargorov ('79 13.Dilevski), 77.Wobay ('84 28.Gangioveanu) - 27.Al. Piturca, 20.Dina ('56 9.M. Costea)

Lions Arena

Universitatea Craiova planed to build a new stadium for our team. The name of it will be "Arena Leilor", in English: Lions Arena. This stadium is like a dream for us because the actual stadium is old and is very hard to preserve.

The new stadium will be have all the modern facilities of a good football arena. Will have restaurants and a conference center. There is only one problem with it: there are no money for build such a nice and modern arena. Until we will find these money, we will continue to dream on.

Universitatea Craiova - FC Vaslui 0-1

Universitatea Craiova lost their 4th game in this season. Unfortunately this was a game played in Craiova, on Ion Oblemenco Stadium. It was a really nice match, played in front of 25.000 viewers, but the result was not not the one we wanted for our team.

In the first part of the game, both teams played waiting for the mistake of the opponent. This came in the 42nd minute of the match when Ciuca lost his man and Yero Bello scored the only goal of the game.

In the second half, Craiova attacked with all the lines and had at least 10 goal opportunities. Unfortunately the goal did not came. In the last minute of the game Universitatea Craiova had a penalty kick as a last chance to score. Andrei Prepelita took the ball and tried to score, but Kuciak saved his team and FC Vaslui get back home with 3 more points in the table. Next game will be played on Thursday against Pandurii Tg Jiu as 1/8 of Romanian Football Cup.

Our team: 1. Stanca - 18. Dananae, 7. Gaman, 6. Ciuca, 2. Barboianu - 5. Stoica - 77. Wobay (25. Firtulescu '82), 30. Prepelita, 23. Gargorov, 20. Dina - 27. Piturca (9. M. Costea '78).

FC Brasov - Universitatea Craiova 0-3

Universitatea Craiova get a new victory, last Monday, in front of 3000 viewers, and now is on the 8th place in the table of Liga I. The next game will be played against FC Vaslui. There is a difference of only 2 points between Craiova in Vaslui in the table. Universitatea Craiova has to be very careful because  this can be a very good starting point for the future performances of this team.

Our goals were scored by Oros '43 (owngoal), Mihai Dina '65 and Dorel Stoica '90+3.

Our team: 1. Stanca - 18. Dananae, 7. Gaman, 6. Ciuca, 2. Barboianu - 5. D. Stoica - 77. Wobay, 23. Gargorov (13. Dilevski '67), 30. Prepelita, 20. Dina - 27. Piturca (19. Stoianof '78, 28. Gângioveanu '84)

France - Romania 2-0

After a gamed played in Paris, on Stade de France, Romanian national football team lost with 2-0 against Gallic Rooster's team.

The trainer of Romanian national football team is Razvan Lucescu, the only son of Mircea Lucescu, coach of Shaktar Donetzk, ex-trainer of Galatasaray, Beshiktas or Inter Milano. Mircea Lucescu used to play in the same team with Romanian Football Federation presidet, Mircea Sandu. They are good friends and this may be one of the reasons Lucescu's son is now the most important trainer in Romania. Just notice the fact that Lucescu jr never had a performance as a football player or as a trainer. He gets only bad results since he is coach of Romania. Despite all of these facts, Lucescu jr is maintained in this function. Why? Nobody knows, nobody cares.

This network of relations between people involved in Romanian football destroyed all the performances of this well known football team in the past.

Napoli-Craiova Brotherhood

After a game played by SSC Napoli against Steaua Bucharest, in Romania, the Italian team find out they have a sister team in this country. Universitatea Craiova has the same colors as Napoli. Craiova is also in south of Romania and their fans are also really crazy.

Universitatea Craiova used to play a lot of games in Europa in the 80's. In 1979, after a match played in Craiova, Universitatea Craiova - Leeds United 2-0, the Italian referee of the game, Gianluca Menegalli, declared: "Here is like in Naples". He was talking about the fans and the atmosphere in the stadium. Cristiano Bergodi and Wlater Zenga, both Italian coaches who used to train Romanian football teams, confirmed this resemblance.

At the game played 2 weeks ago, Steaua Bucharest - SSC Napoli 3-3, there were many Universitatea Craiova's fans who supported the Italian team. This gesture was granted by thanks in Napoli's fans forum. After 3 days, Universitatea Craiova played against Cluj and the ultras of Craiova used to sing and applause Napoli's result against Steaua. That's real friendship!

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Mircea Sandu - FRF president

Mircea Sandu makes the rulles in Romanian Football Federation since 1990. There are 20 years since he is in the same place, on the same chair without any fear to be replaced by someone else. Every 4 years FRF organize elections for his chair. How can be possible someone to win these elections 5 times in line? 

There is no one in Romania who have enough courage to defeat Mircea Sandu. There is a strong structure behind him who protects him and his friends. There are voices who claims the Mircea Sandu will go away only when he will die. Why UEFA have no point of view in this matter? How can FIFA tolerate such a situation? Do they expect to meet in Romania the same situation like in Serbian football? No one knows.

Universitatea Craiova - U Cluj-Napoca 3-0

Universitatea Craiova won against Universitatea Cluj-Napoca with 3-0. It was a game without any hope for guests. Craiova scored fast and the victory was really easy to get when the score was already 2-0 in the 11th minute of the game. The goals were scored by: Dina ('7), Iliev ('11), Wobay ('54)

Our team: 1. Stanca - 18.Dananae, 7.Gaman, 4.Iliev ('74 6.Ciuca), 2. Barboianu - 5. D. Stoica - 77.Wobay, 30. Prepelita, 23. Gargorov, 9. M.Costea ('16 28.Gangioveanu) - 20.Dina ('78 19. Stoianof)

FCM Tg. Mures - Universitatea Craiova 1-4

First victory away for Universitatea Craiova in this season. Our team went full of hopes in Transylvania. And this was not for free. They made a spectacular game and came back with 3 more points in the table.

Universitatea Craiova won this game in the middle of the field. Dorel Stoica and Wobay did a really good job in this area. Prepelita and Mihai Costea also worked a lot for these 3 points. Our goals were scored by Gaman ('8), M. Costea ('40-p), Prepelita ('69) and Wobay ('90).

Our team: 1.Stanca - 18.Dănănae, 7.V. Găman ('77 6.Ciuca), 4.Iliev, 2.Bărboianu, 5.Stoica, 77.Wobay, 30.Prepeliţă ('89 13.Dilevski), 23.Gargorov, 9.M. Costea ('69 28.Gangioveanu), 20.Dina

Minerul Lupeni - Universitatea Craiova 0-5

First game in Romanian Football Cup brought the first categoric victory for Universitatea Craiova. It was a 5-0 without any question mark. Craiova made a good match and scored first in the 11th minute of the game by Gaman. In the 43rd minute of the game Ologu scored also, after a pass coming from Dorel Stoica.

In th second half, Craiova continued to play for show and made the audience to be happy. There were 6000 viewers who assisted this game. In 51st minute of the game, M. Roman scored too. And Gangioveanu scored twice in the minutes 63rd and 84th. Minerul Lupeni had only one shot to Lung's goal. No problems with it.

Our team: 21. S. Lung jr. - 2. Bărboianu, 7. V. Găman (cpt), 3. David Lopes, 6. M. Ciucă - 5. D. Stoica ('64 13.Dilevski) - 77. Wobay ('54 28.Gangioveanu), 8. Ologu, 23. Gargorov, 25. Firţulescu - 9. M. Costea ('46 92.M.Roman)

Universitatea Craiova - Rapid Bucharest 1-1

Universitatea Craiova played last Friday against Rapid Bucharest.

Craiova calculated since start to attack and keep Rapid'a players away from the goal, while the team from Bucharest tried to surprise using fast and furious runs, with the balls thrown for the mobility of Herea behind the defenders line of Universitatea. In these circumstances, the midfielders had a lot of work to do.

In the first half Universitatea's game was based on the balls thrown in front by Iliev and Gaman trying to reach our strikers in good position. Thus, logically, the phases were hot consumed on the other gate, where Rapid quickly and easily arrived. First Cesinha, tried to score from the box, and after that, Spadacio executed a free-kick but Stanca saved in extremis

In the second half, Here was redcarded after an elbow kick against Gaman. In the next phase Barboianu was faulted at 17 m from Bornescu's goal and Wobay ('54) scored directly from this free kick. Craiova exulted. In the 62nd minute of the game, Dananae made a fault against Cassio in the box. M. Constantin scored from the granted penalty. And the game finished 1-1.

Our team: 1.Stanca - 18.Dananae, 7.Gaman, 4.Iliev ('59 6.Ciuca), 2.Barboianu - 5.Stoica - 77.Wobay, 30.Prepelita, 13.Dilevski ('71 23.Gargorov), 9.M. Costea ('87 92.M. Roman) - 20.Dina

Pandurii Tg Jiu - Universitatea Craiova 3-1

Universitatea Craiova met Pandurii Tg Jiu in the 7th day of Romanian Football Championship. It was a really strange match. There were a lot of Craiova's fans waiting for our team to win this game. Actually Universitatea could win 3 days before the game because of some Profesional Football League decisions. But the players and almost all Universitatea Craiova's supporters wanted the game to play, not to be gained in the offices.

Targu Jiu si part of Oltenia, a region of Romania whose capital Craiova used to be. There is no doubt that Craiova has a lot of fans in Tg Jiu. Actually Universitatea has more supporters than the local team in this city. That is why nobody could even imagine this game could be lost. Unfortunately, the worst predictions turned into reality: Universitatea Craiova lost this game in a categoric manner. In the first minute of the match it was already 1-0 for Pandurii and they continued to score until 3-0 in the 53rd minute of the game. In the end of the game (88th minute), our favorite team scored after a head strike of Valentin Iliev who received a good pass from Gargorov. Let's hope for more in the next match against Rapid Bucharest, next Friday.

Our team: Lung - Dănănae, Găman, Iliev, Ciucă('56 Firtulescu) - Stoica ('66 Gargorov) - Wobay, Prepeliţă, Dilevski ('29 Dina), M. Costea - Al.Piţurcă

Walter Lopez Gasco signed for Craiova

Universitatea Craiova get the signature of Walter Lopez Gasco. He is coming from Uruguay and he used to play as left defender for Brescia Calcio in the last season. The Italian team started 20 games having Lopez in their squad and they also introduced him for 10 games after a switch.

This player gained 3 caps in Uruguay national football team. 

Other clubs for which he used to play: Racing Club Montevideo, Xerez (Spain), West Ham United (England) and Brescia Calcio (Italy). Let's wish him: "good luck!"

Craiova refused to win without play

Next game of Universitatea Craiova will be against Pandurii Targu Jiu. There were some problems before this match, because of the team from Targu Jiu. They sold Ilie Iordache, a former football player of this team, in Greece. But the player was co-owned with Dinamo Bucharest. Dinamo Bucharest asked their share in this transaction and because Targu Jiu could not pay the money, their team was excluded from Romanian Football Championship. Because of this Universitatea Craiova could register a victory with 3-0 in the official statistics.

Taking in consideration all the facts, Universitatea Craiova's fans refused to win without fight. 99% of them did not agree with such a victory without honor. "We better lose playing the game", was fan's opinion. This is the spirit of Universitatea Craiova. Our team won Romanian Championship only 4 times since 1948, but they fought hard and really deserved to win them. 

After all those replays and after such a big fan support, Pandurii Targu Jiu found a way to get an agreement with Dinamo Bucharest. As initially, the game will be played next Monday at 20:00 local time. Good luck, Craiova!

On the other hand, Universitatea Craiova is still in contract for sports wear with German provider Adidas. This well known sport wear and sport shoes producer, has already 4 years of good partnership with our team. It is good to mention that Universitatea Craiova had all of this team important performances wearing Adidas products.

Universitatea Craiova - Triumf Barca 4-0

Universitatea Craiova played a friendly game against Triumf Barca (Romanian 3rd football league) and won by a score of 4-0. This test game was closed for audience and it was a good opportunity for Dorel Stoica and Razvan Stanca to know better their new colleagues.

The goals were scored by Gargorov '24, David Lopes '50, Mihai Roman '72 and Prepelita '90.

Victor Piturca also tested in this game the midfielder Peter Lucian Gogea (19 years old) comming from CSM Rm Valcea.

Our team: Hotoboc - Buleica, I. Popescu, Lopes, Buşu - Dilevski - Wobay, Gargorov, J. Nicolae

Gogea - M. Roman.

In the second half: R. Stanca - Buleica, Iliev, Lopes, Ciuca - D. Stoica - Wobay (Roman '70)

Prepelita, Dina, Gargorov - Piturca Jr.

Dănănae, Stoianof and Gângioveanu are injured, Lung jr, Gaman, Barboianu, M. Costea and Firtulescu are playing in this period for Romanian U21 National Football Team.

Victor Piturca

Victor Piţurcă (born 8th Of May 1956 in Orodel, Dolj County, Romania) is a former football striker. He was one of the prolific strikers of Steaua Bucharest, being one of the team's top scorers – he scored a massive 165 goals in 175 games played for this team.

Piţurcă joined Universitatea Craiova as a youth in 1970, aged 14, and four years later he was loaned to Dinamo Slatina, a club from Romania's second football league, in order to gain more experience. Before being called back to Craiova in 1975, making his debut for the team in November that year. As he was not used too much by Universitatea, Piţurcă left the club in 1977 to join Pandurii Târgu Jiu and then FC Drobeta Turnu-Severin, from where he was signed by FC Olt, thus returning to play in Liga I.

In 1983 he was requested by Steaua, helping the club to reach its highest peak in European football. Piţurcă's team won the UEFA Champions League in 1986 and the European Supercup in 1987. Piţurcă won the Romanian Championship with Steaua Bucharest 5 times and the Romanian Cup 4 times. At the end of the 1987-88 season he was the top scorer of Liga I and won UEFA's Bronze Boot. For Romanian National football team, Piţurcă only get 13 caps, scoring 6 goals.

After playing for Racing Club de Lens during the 1989-90 season, Piţurcă retired from professional football to take over as coach. His first appointment was for Steaua Bucharest in 1991, followed by another one with Universitatea Craiova in 1994, finishing second in the table at the end of 1994-95 season.

In 1996 he was named coach of the Romania Under 21 side, leading the team to its best performances ever, including a qualification to the Under 21 European Championship in 1998, hosted by Romania. In 1998 he was appointed as Romania's manager and qualified the team to the 2000 European Football Championship. However, despite finishing the qualification group undefetead, Piţurcă was sacked before even taking his squad to the Euro 2000.

In December 1999 he took over as manager of Steaua Bucharest, winning the championship in 2001, but resigned in 2004. In December 2004 he was appointed manager of Romania for the second time. At first Romania did well under his coaching, defeating several important European teams both in friendlies (Germany, Spain) and official matches (Czech Republic in Group 1 of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Qualification and the Netherlands in Group G of the UEFA 2008 Qualifying Round).

After topping their qualifying group (and thus qualifying for their first international tournament in 8 years), Romania was drawn in Group C at UEFA Euro 2008, alongside the Netherlands, Italy and France. At the time of the draw, these countries' respective Elo rankings among European teams were 1st, 2nd, 4th and 8th. After drawing their first two games against the finalists of the previous World Cup (0-0 against France, 1-1 against Italy), Romania lost 0-2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition.

In 2009, the Romanian Football Federation released Victor Piţurcă from his job from the Romania national football team on April 9th, 2009. A few weeks later, Răzvan Lucescu was appointed as his successor.

In July 2010 Victor Piţurcă accepted to be Steaua Bucharest's manager. He prepared this team for the first 2 games in the season. Both were victories. After them he resigned his contract and starting with the 6th game of the season he accepted a 3 years contract as manager of Universitatea Craiova. After 15 years we may hope again. Long live Victor Piţurcă!

Universitatea Craiova - Sportul Studentesc 1-0

Universitatea Craiova won with 1-0 Saturday evening, on "Ion Oblemenco" stadium, a match against Sportul Studentesc Bucharest. This was the first game of Victor Piturca as trainer of our team after 15 yars. He used to train Craiova in 1994-1995 when our team finished the championship on the 2nd place in the table.

The only goal of the game was succeeded by Ovidiu Stoianof in the last minute (90+1). Both players who contributed for this goal were inserted in the second half. Dragos Firtulescu did the pass and Stoianof scored after a ball rejected by the Sportul Studentesc's goalkeeper.

To match roughly 25,000 spectators attended the University managed first victory in this championship.

This was the 59th student "duel" between Universitatea Craiova and Sportul Studentesc. Craiova won 23 games on their own field, and Sportul won only 4. In general, Universitatea gathered 30 victories and Sportul 18, other 11 matches ended with a draw.

Our team: 21.Lung - 18.Dananae, 7.Gaman, 4.Iliev, 6.Ciuca - 13.Dilevski, 77.Wobay (25.Firtulescu '70), 30.Prepelita, 20.Dina (23.Gargorov '59) - 9.M. Costea - 27.Al. Piturca (19.Stoianof

'76). Coach: Victor Piturca.