We Are BACK!

Hello everybody! After a long time of lack of activity our blog comes back. What happened in meantime it may sound crazy but this just did.

1. Mircea Sandu is no more the president of Romanian Football Federation. Which is good because he was the main reason Romanian football arrived in the worst situation of its entire history. It was a long and fight to remove him from that chair. He wanted to remain there forever, probably. The president of FRF (Romanian Football Federation) is now Razvan Burleanu. On 14th of April 2018 there will be new elections again for the chairman of FRF. 

2. Dumitru Dragomir is no longer the president of LPF (Romanian Football League). He used to be number 2 in Romanian football and "the cardinal Richelieu" of it, actually. His nickname is still "Corleone". If you know a bit about movies, you already understand what am I talking about. Both of them, Dragomir and Sandu are still free. They had a lot of justice problems but they pulled some strings somehow and they did not got in prison... yet.

3. Lia Olguta Vasilescu who used to be the city mayor of Craiova is now a member of Romanian Government. She is the Minister of Labor and the whole country is making fun of her because of really bad knowledge of foreign languages and stupid decisions she makes. The most recent: she decided to double all the salaries in Romania. She started a law package in this why and as a result some salaries became 25% smaller than before. The biggest increase she made was 4% in some insulated cases.

FC U Craiova Wins In Court

When FRF (Romanian Football Federation) and LPF (Romanian Football League) decided to abusive erase FC U Craiova from Romanian football they motivated their decision with 2 arguments:

- an economical division made prior this juridical decision - when the economical company which administrated the football club was divided in 2 new companies

- a trial between FC U Craiova and FRF opened by our football team.

Right after this decision FC U Craiova demonstrated in court they didn't sue FRF. It was just a trial based on economical issues between FC U Craiova and Victor Piturca (former coach of our club). This decision is final and nobody can deny it.

Yesterday FC Universitatea got a final decision in court: the division was legal and nobody can argue with it. This means they used two wrong motivations used by the ones who decided FC U Craiova will no longer be a part of Romanian football.

Now let's see the consequences.

Florin Prunea

Florin Prunea was one of the football players who made the biggest success of Romanian football - quarter of finals at World Cup USA 1994. He and Bogdan Stelea were the best Romanian goalkeepers at a time. 

He was born August 8th 1968 in Bucharest and used to play for Dinamo Bucharest, "U" Cluj-Napoca and Universitatea Craiova. In 1991 he won the title of Champion of Romania and the Romanian Cup for Universitatea Craiova. 

Now, after a short career in Romanian Football Federation, he is the president of CSU Iasi. Nicolo Napoli - Stiinta's former trainer - works in the same club.

Two days ago, Florin Prunea made this statement in a press conference: "People who used to work in football know: most of FRF (Romanian Football Federation) actions in court will be lost. If Adrian Mititelu will win the lawsuit against federation, FRF will be demolished. The president of the Romanian Football Federation comes from a gray world. They are not coming from sport's world. They really hate the players from Romanian national football team. They are coming from corporate system, they are former undercover officers who, I think, don't belong in world of sports."

FRF Goes In Court

Romanian Football Federation ( FRF ) is about to sue TVR asking for a debt of €170,000. They are pretending this money because Romanian public television broadcasted the games of Romanian national football team between 2010 and 2011 this being the value of the signed contract. 

The action was launched in court on December 30th 2015 and the first trial was established for February 19th 2016. The main problem is TVR has a total unpaid debt of €150,000,000. This makes the public television not to be able to pay any cent to its debitors. 

You may wonder which is the connection with Universitatea Craiova? Well, our club already sued FRF for a total material damage of €258,000,000. And FRF is able to pay such an amount. It seems they are just trying not to pay their debts and receive everything from the others. Isn't this a double morale Mr. Burleanu ?

Back In Business

Universitatea Craiova came back in the football field. We are now playing in Romanian's second football league and we are doing this well.

It happened a lot, but the most important is this: our team is on the 3rd place in the table and we really hope to be in the first league starting with 2014. Nicolo Napoli is our team's coach again. There are many players who came back to help our team - Madalin Ciuca, Robert Saceanu, Michael Baird. But our biggest wish is to see Romanian Football Federation 's chief - Mircea Sandu - in prison. There were 2 years of pain and sacrifices for 2 million fans of this important Romanian football team. Someone must pay for this abuse!

These are the results of our team, until now:

Olimpia Satu-Mare - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 1-1

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - CSU 0-0

Minerul Motru - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 0-1

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - FC Olt Slatina 2-0

FC Bihor Oradea - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 1-1

FIFA Disposition Ignored By FRF

Although Mircea Sandu, Dumitru Dragomir and their staff knew about FIFA disposition they hid this fact both clubs and members of the Executive Committee.

FIFA specifically asked that the provisions of art. 9.2 and 18.2 of the FRF (Romanian Football Federation) Statute related about expulsion of a club to be removed because they are illegal and contrary to FIFA statutes. The General Association is the only organism which may exclude a member. This FIFA request was formulated in January 2011. After six months Universitatea Craiova was excluded by FRF's Executive Comitee.

The essay is signed by FIFA and FIFA's legal director Marco Villiger.

Court Of Appeal Decision

Court of Appeal decided: FRF (Romanian Football Federation) is a national sport structure that means this institution is an object of public interest.

Universitatea Craiova asked the Court of Appeal, in the administrative section, to void the decision from 20th of July of FRF's Executive Committee regarding the excluding of the club from any competition. Today Craiova get a historic victory in the sense the court rejected the exception sustained by FRF as their acts would be administrative and therefore the Romanian Football Federation would not be public.

As a consequence FRF must obey the law of the state and can not be treated as a inner state. This is a very big step toward obtaining full compensation for all the 39 football players our team lost last summer. The total amount was estimated at € 250 million.

UEFA Invites FC Sion To Match Schedule Consultation

FC Sion had a civil trial against UEFA. They were excluded from Europa League. This case is somehow similar with Universitatea Craiova's case. Universitatea Craiova was more than excluded. Practically this team was dissolved by Romanian Football Federation.

After a fight in court FC Sion obtained the right to play their games in Europa League. This is the link Let's see what FRF will do now...

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.