Romania - France 0-0

Romania met France in a game for Euro 2012 - Poland & Ukraine qualifications. This is all. :) No, not really. Because there were no goals scored in this game but, at least, Romania has gossip. A lot of rumors showed up thanks of this event.

First of all let's see the game. It was not spectacular. Nothing extraordinary happened. Just a boring football game without goals and without anything else. France had 74,5% ball possession , Romania had the ball 13 minutes from 90. There were 51 minutes of effective game, actually.

This was the first game played on a new Romanian stadium. The name of it: National Arena. It was played in front of an audience of 55.000 people. The well known Romanian pop singer INNA, had a mini concert at the begining.

After this, Marcel Pavel, a great voice of Bucharest, sang Romanian National Anthem. Actually he did it bad and he get a fine of 1.500 Euro because of missing the song. This may happen... but FRF - Romanian Football Federation get the same fine for hiring the wrong person to sing the anthem.

A great stadium, which costed 250 million Euro, but a very bad football field. The grass carpet was totally damaged after 90 minutes of using it. It must be recovered until September the 14th when Steaua Bucharest wants to play a game in Europa League on the same stadium. The cost of reparation is 360.000 Euro.

The teams:
Romania: Tatarusanu - Luchin, Goian, Chiriches, Rat - Nicoita, Cocis, Bourceanu, C. Lazar ('43 B. Stancu), Tanase - Marica ('88 G.Bucur)
France: Lloris - Evra, Abidal, Rami, Sagna - Martin, Cabaye ('75 Nasri), M'Villa - Ribery, Benzema, Valbuena ('71 Remy)

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.

Euro 2008 - Romania In

In the 3rd day of Euro 2008 Romania debuted against France. 0-0 was the score of this game. A hard work and the result we deserved.Romania made a promising start today, holding one of the tournament favourites, France, to a goalless draw at the Letzigrund Stadion in Zurich in Group C.

The Netherlands ended a 30-year wait for a victory over Italy in emphatic fashion as they began their Group C campaign with a rousing 3-0 victory against the world champions on Stade de Suisse from Berne.Ruud van Nistelrooy side-footed the Oranje ahead in the 26th minute, a lead doubled superbly by his Real Madrid CF colleague Wesley Sneijder soon after. Edwin van der Sar, becoming only the third player to appear in four UEFA European Championships, then kept the advantage intact, leaving Giovanni van Bronckhorst to complete the scoring with a headed third in the 79th minute. The Netherlands can now look forward with confidence to Friday's meeting with France, while Italy must pick themselves up from a worst-ever EURO defeat when they face Romania.

Rugby World Cup

PARIS, 7 September - Argentina caused a huge upset in the opening match of the IRB Rugby World Cup by beating France 17-12 (17-9) at the Stade de France on Friday, handing the host nation their first ever defeat in the pool stages.

That was a big surprise, France being one of the favourites of this tournament.


Ignacio Corleto scored the only try of the match for Argentina

The Rugby Wold Cup, staged evry four years, is the biggest Rugby event in the world and is accepted as being one of the top five global sporting events.

Rugby World Cup 2007, the sixth Tournament will take place in France and will be a six week festival of rugby featuring the worl'd top players from all corners of the globe. The Tournament's 48 matches will be played across France with selected matches also being held in Cardiff and Edimburgh.

The winners are awarded the William Webb Ellis Cup, named after the Rugby School pupil credited with the game's invention.