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."

Universitatea Craiova's Fans Party

Universitatea Craiova's fans organize today the first party in 2014. This event is supposed to be great having as guests our team footballers, the coach Nicoo Napoli and the new club's manager Marian Condescu. 

Between our guests it will be included "Ektro", one of the most beloved artists of the new wave of Romanian's hip-hop music. He will do a live performance singing his well-known tracks dedicated to Universitatea Craiova. There will be prizes awarded and the fans may take advantage of the opportunity to purchase promotional materials related to our football team. 

This party promises to be a success and will be broadcasted in the Romanian media and online as well. Do not miss your opportunity to demonstrate the attachment for Nicolo Napoli. All the details of this party can be found following this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1434627330094662/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

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

2011 preparations for a new start

The winter between 2010 and 2011 was very strange for Universitatea Craiova. First of all, Victor Piturca was sacked. The new trainer of Universitatea Craiova is Nicolo Napoli now.

After this action, 10 football players left Universitatea Craiova: Razvan Stanca, Spase Dilevski, Jullius Wobay, Mihai Dina, Emil Gargorov, Valentin Iliev, Alex Piturca, Valerica Gaman, Stefan Barboianu and David Junior Lopes. In the last 5 years, this was the biggest amount of footbal players who leave our team once. Practically it is almost an entire team who went off from Craiova.

Universitatea had a training session in Antalya, Turkey and played some friendly games there. These are the results:

CSM RÂMNICU VÂLCEA - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 1-1

for Craiova scored Mihai Roman ('59)

SHINNIK YAROSLAVL - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 3-4

goals scored by Fl. Costea ('20), Gangioveanu ('22), Prepelita ('44), Mihai Roman('66)

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - MLADA BOLESLAV 1-1

for Craiova scored Mihai Costea ('29)

BORAC BANJA LUKA - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 1-0

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - MINIOR PERNIK 0-0

LOKOMOTIV MOSCOW - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 3-1

for Craiova scored Mihai Costea ('28)

Universitatea Craiova - Dinamo Bucharest 1-1

It is a great rivality between Universitatea Craiova and Dinamo Bucharest. As a matter of fact the people from Craiova doesn't like any team from Bucharest. That is because they are all ex-comunist teams. Dinamo Bucharest is the football team of Ceausescu's political police called "Securitatea".
Universitatea Craiova did a good game against Dinamo Bucharest. Unfortunately a mistake chain of the refere lead to this draw result.
The goal of Universitatea Craiova was scored by Ciprian Tanasa in the 36th minute of the game.

The trainer of Universitatea Craiova said: We deserved to win today. Today Universitatea Craiova lost 2 points.
Our team today was: Bornescu - Dănănae, Mitchell, Stoica, Rose – Prepeliţă (’64 Gârlă), Săceanu, Gărgălie, Velcovici – Tănasă (’75 Wobay), Costea (’59 Baird). Trainer: Nicolo Napoli

Universitatea Craiova - Poli Timisoara 2-1

Universitatea Craiova made a great victory yesterday. Poli Timisoara is a team which gathered the most expansive players in Romanian championship. Although Craiova took 3 points in the game against this football team.Our goals were scored by Florin Costea in the 10th minute of the game after a personal action, and Michael Baird in the 77th minute from an assist of Julius Wobay. The joy was general and complete. You may see a video from this game bellow:

Universitatea: Bornescu - Dănănae, D. Stoica, Mitchell, Rose - Bărboianu, Săceanu, Prepeliţă (’69 Gărgălie), Velcovici - Costea I (’73 Wobay), C. Tănasă (’62 Baird). Trainer: Nicolo Napoli