CSU Means Nothing

CSU Craiova stands for Sports Club Universitatea Craiova. This was the initial name of the mother club which included athletics, football, handball, voleyball and bridge during communist regime in Romania. FCU left this big club and became Football Club Universitatea Craiova in 1990 and continued like this until 2011 when it was abusively destroyed by Romanian Football Federation. I explained in the previous posts how this could be possible. If you take a look at recently uncovered Platini-Blatter case and taking into account Mircea Sandu (former FRF president) was one of the biggest supporters of this corrupted couple it is easy to understand what a big Mafia our club had to deal with.

CSU just came in 2013 in Romanian football trying to replace the old FCU in fan's mind and in the official statistics. There were serious money quantities pumped in this project at the beginning but the managers made one mistake after another. The most important was they didn't knew the public in Craiova and the local habits. They tried to replace the old team with people without any connection with this city. They never had a real audience and, on a stadium which gathered 50,000 viewers in the past, CSU had at most 4000 people in tribunes.  In many games they played with only a couple of hundreds watching them. 

Today everything is a mess there. The main investor is in prison being accused of corruption. There are no more money involved in this project. The team lost the contact with the play-off places in the table and now is trying to resist but the last results are very bad. The managers tried to attract in their stuff old glories of Craiova's football, they had Cartu and Sandoi as trainers but this move wasn't a long term success. The City Hall of Craiova took part in this new club (having an old name) but they only made aggressive declarations and nothing really important for the football in Craiova. 

There is only one conclusion after all these facts: the City Hall doesn't matter, the old name CSU means nothing, the old glories of the club doesn't mean anything, money doesn't count in this equation. The only important are the fans of Universitatea Craiova and they can not be bullshited by politicians or people in key positions in Romanian Football Federation.

Platini And Blatter Preparing For Jail

Michel Platini was a great football player. He used to play for Juventus Torino during an era when his main opponent was Diego Armando Maradona. Meanwhile Maradona started training footbal teams like Argentina national football team or Al Wasl FC in UAE. Michel Platini has chosen to be UEFA's president. 

Diego is now still a god in Naples and in his own country. Michel Platini was already suspended for 8 years being suspected of corruption. Sepp Blatter payed 2 millions Swiss Francs to him and no one can explain were are this money coming from and what was the purpose of such a bonus/salary. 

Being suspected of trying to wash black money, these 2 people are risking to go in prison. Both of them have to pay substantial fines: £ 53,000 Michel Platini and £ 33,000 Sepp Blater. Since Blatter will no longer be president of FIFA, Platini intended to take this role. After this scandal his future is ruined. There is no doubt who was greater: Maradona or Platini.

Julius Gibrilla Wobay

One of the most important football players in recent history of Universitatea Craiova was Julius Wobay. Originated in Sierra Leone, he signed for our team when he was 22 years old and came from NEA Salamina - Cyprus. He was an offensive left midfielder reminding of Zoltan Crisan for Stiinta fans.

Last time he played for Neftchi Baku. But now, in age of 31, Ubi(his Romanian nickname) is a free agent. The most important point of his career was when he used to play for Universitatea Craiova and his transfermarkt market value was about € 1,1 million. In the video below you can see why all Stiinta's supporters loved Julius Wobay. 

JULIUS WOBAY MULTUMIM!
Posted by Vlad Bojinescu on Wednesday, February 25, 2015

The Special One

Chelsea London

No other comment. The most important football club in England from 2000 til now. Jose Mourinho - the special one. The most successful football trainer in the World. A man with a huge background and a great history. Do you play "Top Eleven" ? Then you know who is Jose Mourinho.

Me and my friends visited Stanford Bridge. It was a football game in UEFA League. Chelsea's manager was Rafael Benitez at that time. This club ended that season wining this trophy but still... Chelsea's fans were crazy protesting for two men - Didier Drogba and Jose Mourinho. Next season "the special one" returned on Stanford Bridge. This is just a short story about how important this man can be. 

After 2 years of managing this incredible football team, it happened that Chelsea had the worst start of season in the history. Because of this Jose Mourinho was sacked today. He had a resignation clause of 40 million £ in his contract. Finally the parts agreed to a compensation of 10 million £ which represent the salary of Mourinho for the present season. 4 hours after signing of these documents, there were sent offers to Jose by Real Madrid and Manchester United. This means to be special.

Ada Nechita

Born: November 14th 1983 in Bailesti-Dolj

right wing in Romanian national handball team

teams: Stiinta Bailesti, CS Universitatea Craiova, Oltchim Ramnicu-Valcea and HCM Baia-Mare

trophies: Romanian Championship (2006), Romanian Cup (2006), Cup Winners Cup (2006)

Ada Nechita is the woman on top today. Romania qualified in the semifinals of Handball World Championship 2015 after winning against Denmark - the host team. The final score was 31-30 after extra time. During regular time the game ended as a draw 29-29.

Ada Nechita is probably one of the most beautiful players in the tournament. Her love life proves this more than anything. In 2007 she married with Catalin Olteanu. In 2009 they separated and Ada had an affair with the football player Florin Costea - one of Costea brothers about you may read more here .

In 2013 Ada and Florin separated and she started a relationship with the mayor of Baia Mare - Catalin Chereches. He was actually the main sponsor of the handball team in which Ada Nechita was just transfered. Their realtionship ended in 2014.

Today Ada Nechita was part of Romanian handball team who won against Denmark. The most important goal of the match, the last one, was scored by herself. Let's wish good luck to the best team and let's hope Adriana will play better and better.

Mihai Costea - Betting Scandal Issue

Mihai-Alexandru Costea - striker

Born: May 29th 1988 

Tall: 1.85m

2006-2011 - He played for Universitatea Craiova - 83 games/ 14 goals

2011-2015 - Steaua  Bucharest - 35 games/ 9 goals 

2015 - FC Voluntari - 7 games/ 0 golas

U21 Romania team - 13 games / 11 goals

2 times champion of Romania (Steaua - 2013, 2014) 

Romanian Supercup - 2013

Promoted in Liga I (Universitatea Craiova - 2006)

After the scandal which involved coaches Flavius ​​Stoican (ex-FC Voluntari) and Nicolo Napoli (CSMS Iasi), caught betting on Internet via bet365 and whose case reached the mass of the Disciplinary Commission of FRF another case explodes in Liga I. The striker Mihai Costea from FC Voluntari, was photographed in a betting office while puts his ticket.

Being asked if he really did that, Mihai Costea replayed it was a 2 years ago old picture. The real problem is the betting office were he was surprised by paparazzi was not in function 2 years ago. More than this, this is a brand new agency founded 2 months ago. This means the football player is guilty as charged.

The football players and coaches in Romania are suspected to gamble, directly or through intermediaries in sports betting. This explains the increasingly strange results recorded in certain matches. It is known that football disciplinary regulations forbid them to do this. According to Art. 60 of the Disciplinary Regulations, Mihai Costea risks a suspension of two years and a fine of 66.500€.

This is not the first time Mihai Costea gets in trouble. He had to be rejected by Steaua Bucharest because of his relation with a model/playmate called Daniela Crudu .

Romanian Football Federation Is Serious In Trouble

The Romanian Court of Appeals ruled today canceling of FRF's new statute which was voted in the summer of 2014 and the case was sent back for retrial in The Court Of Bucharest. 

This means the statute of 2014 can not be used anymore and all the decisions based on this statute will be canceled. Two major differences between the statute of 2011 and the statute of 2014 are: 

- In Romanian Football Federation (FRF) it is not allowed to be hired a person who got in prison or is involved in a criminal trial. This means some people should be fired there.

- No team can be promoted without an experience of minimum 3 years of existence. This rule is very normal because there are 4 football leagues in Romania. And according with this rule no team can promote but only one league per year. This means if will appear a football team someday, this team should start from the last football league and can play in the first football league - Liga I - no soon than 3 years after its establishing. 

According with this last change canceling, CSU - the new team in Craiova - is in impossibility to play football games in Romanian first league. They only spent 1 year in the second league and played in Liga I very next year. They started in the second football league instead of the last one, as normal. Let's see who will gonna pay for all these corruption facts.

Universitatea Craiova Died And Nobody Cares

February 25th 2014 was the last day "Universitatea" Craiova existed. Actually this is the last video regarding our football team. A boring winter day. A pale shadow of the squad which literally impressed Europe 30 years ago. 

Being relegated in the second league of Romanian football, "Universitatea" Craiova couldn't finish the championship. The main reason was a serious lack of founds. Actually in short time the management was forced to declare bankruptcy. This video show the players demanding their financial rights and complaining about training conditions. Craiova is a city for 250.000 inhabitants. People there is very bad organised and divided because their political views or financial interests. This matter of facts lead to no way out situation . The municipality observed all these defects and founded its own football team having the same name and symbols as the old one. FRF (Romanian Football Federation) suddenly adopted the new club and in this way something incredible happened: the old U Craiova played against the new U Craiova in an official competition... twice. Both games ended in the same way 0-0.

Today it exists the club of municipality only. It promoted in the first Romanian football league and they pretending they are the same club as the old one. Even the official documents show the evidence of 2 total different football teams, nobody recognizes this true fact. After a difficult start in the first season in first Romanian football league, CSU Craiova (the name of the new team) managed to play 14 consecutive games without losing. Many people wondered how was that possible. Anyhow, now they are playing their second season in Liga I and the situation in the table shows this is a mediocre squad. They are in the middle of the table trying hard to qualify for playoff. Two weeks ago, the owner of this club got in prison because of corruption being suspected of a fraud of 60 millions €. It is useless to mention CSU is not making any good result since then. 

On the other hand, FCU Craiova (the name of the old team) tried hard to solve the bankruptcy problem. This matter is in the lawyers hands now and the signs are very bad. Long processes, contradictory court solutions, many interests involved and a dead end for football players and the fans of this club. Practically 65 years of tradition must be buried and people is forced to accept the clone team as being their own. If you ever seen "Changing" directed by Angelina Jolie you can understand the situation of Universitatea Craiova's ultras.

Singing A Song

I just found this video in youtube. In my opinion is the best commercial ever. Please feel free to show your thoughts. Anyhow for Craiova's ultras, who are waiting from 3 years to share their feelings in a stadium it's been to much. Their are boiling and someday this pressure cooker will explode.

Olympique de Marseille - Joyeux Noel

Olympique Marseille is our favorite team in France. Most of the Universitatea Craiova's fans are supporting L'OM because these two teams are very similar. It is because of the colors, because both teams are placed in the South of their countries and because their endless fight against teams in the Capitals. The fans of Olypique Marseille are very warm and attached to their team. Universitatea Craiova's ultras are seeing them very often as a model.

RIP Jonah Lomu

He was a great man and a great character. He lived for rugby and when he couldn't play anymore he died.