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 .

Universitatea Craiova's fans in London

It's been almost 2 years since Universitatea Craiova was abusively erased form Romanian football's history.  This legendary team has the most passionate fans in Romania.

They recently protested in London at the football game Chelsea FC - Steaua Bucharest asking their team to be let to play again.

The protests did not end here. Today a fan climbed a light pile of  "Ion Oblemenco" stadium asking the same thing. Romanian football is not the same without Universitatea Craiova.

2002 - History Files

Universitatea Craiova was a great team in Romania. There were a lot memorable games, but this is one of the most important of them. On 1st of September 2002, Stiinta met Steaua Bucharest on Ion Oblemenco stadium in Craiova. It was a 40.000 viewers assistance at this game. And this for a stadium with 28.500 sitting places only .

Craiova had a big show in the field and in the stadium too. I hope you will like the video.
The teams:
Universitatea Craiova: Agachi - Vochin, Papura, Rada - Miclea, Sava, Badea, Stanga, Ciocoi - Lutu (Vladoiu), Verdes
Steaua Bucharest: M.Tudor - Fl.Dumitru, Panc, M.Radoi, Miu - Aliuta, Bostina, Paraschiv, Neaga - C.Raducanu, Oprita

Daniela Crudu In A Relationship With Mihai Costea

Daniela Crudu was born on June 14th 1989. She began her career as a night club entertainer. After that she graduated a school for mannequins and models. She won the title of "Sexiest model in Romania".

Even she is working for a commercial television she did not give up the activity of animation in nightclubs. She dances for fun and she is earning around 100 Euro per night.

This hot brunette posed in the well known magazine for men, Playboy. This action brought her even more popularity being chosen to present a lot of very popular lingerie brands.

Mihai Costea, ex-Universitatea Craiova striker, was transferred this summer for 1,1 million Euro at Steaua Bucharest. Bucharest is a city with many clubs, discos and pubs. In one of them, Mihai met Daniela Crudu and they become lovers. Let us know if you enjoy the pictures.

More about Mihai Costea here .

Costea Brothers

The most promising Romanian strikers are Mihai and Florin Costea.

Florin Costea is the elder brother. He was born on May 16th 1985 in Dragasani, Romania.He started to play Romanian second league for the local team Rarora Râmnicu-Vâlcea, then he transferred to the most popular team in Romania, Universitatea Craiova, who competed at the time in the same league.

After his new team was promoted, he became one of their key players and one of the best strikers of the Liga I. The 2008/09 season was great for Florin, finishing the top scorer of the Romanian first division, together with Gigel Bucur after both had scored 17 goals. On March 21st 2010, while playing a match against Politehnica Iaşi, the Moldavian goalkeeper made a rash challenge on Florin Costea, injuring him. He was forced to leave the pitch, and realising the severity of his injury he was taken out in tears. It was later discovered that he had broken his medial collateral ligament and crossed ligament. He was sidelined for 8 months. After Universitatea Craiova was disaffiliated he became a Free Agent.

On 3rd August 2011 Florin Costea moved to Steaua Bucureşti on a free transfer, later signing a 4-year contract, worth around €250,000 per year. Here he rejoined his brother Mihai Costea.

Mihai was born on May 29th 1988. He played for Universitatea Craiova's youth team. In 2008 the player was promoted in the first team, where he joined his older brother. Though his favorite positions are Striker or Winger, due to lack of players at Universitatea Craiova he was often used as a Left Midfielder. This usually brought criticism to Universitatea Craiova officials.

Mihai Costea was transferred to Steaua Bucureşti for a reported transfer fee of €1,4m for 60% of the players rights. But, due to the fact that Universitatea Craiova was disaffiliated by the Romanian Football Federation on July 20th, 2011, Steaua Bucureşti now owns all the rights of the player. He had a perfect start, scoring three goals in his first three games with the Bucarest team.

Mihai Costea was a Romania U-21 international being capped thirteen times and scored one goal against Latvia U-21 on 14 November 2009. In Romanian first football league, Mihai played 89 games and scored 17 goals. In UEFA Cup he played 4 games and scored 1 goal.

Until now, Florin Costea played 121 games in Liga I and he scored 48 goals. In Cup of Romania he played 7 games and scored 4 times. He also played 3 games in UEFA Cup and scored 1 goal. For Romanian national football team he played 7 games.

Universitatea Craiova - Steaua Bucharest 0-1

After a cold cold winter there was not bigger pleasure than stating of a new football season. For us, Universitatea Craiova's fans, this started with a match played in front of 10,000 viewers at -8 Celsius degrees. That was an extreme temperature, even for Romania, in this period of the year.

What to say about the football game? Nothing interesting. Two lazy teams waiting to finish this job. I think is really hard to try running in such a bad weather. The only phase of the game consumed in the first half when Steaua scored and went in Bucharest with 3 necessary points in their pockets. Craiova still waits for victory.

Our team: 21.Lung - 18.Dananae, 4.Zoro, 3.D. Lopes, 11.W. Lopez - 30.Prepelita, 5.Stoica, 8.Ologu ('68 28.Gangioveanu) - 9.M.Costea, 20.Subotic, 10.Fl.Costea

Steaua Bucharest - Universitatea Craiova 2-1

Universitatea Craiova played another game against a team from Bucharest. Always it happens like this. This scenario comes again and over again in front of our eyes. Craiova plays really good football and the other team is just waiting for the referee to change the result of the game. This is not a mistake. This happens at every game our team is playing.

It was 0-0 until the break. The game was really nice until then. In the 51st minute of the game, Mihai Costea stroke a corner kick. This was a good assist for Valentin Iliev who scored with a strong head kick. In the 57th minute, Mihai Costea got the ball again. He made a good pass near Abrudan and scored for 2-0. With no reason, the referee canceled Craiova's goal. Everybody on the field got stoned. Why?

After all these Steaua scored twice and the game finished with the wanted result by the referee of the game. What can we do now? There were 2 games in this new season. In the first game the referee of the game did not want to give a penalty kick for Universitatea Craiova. In the second game, another referee canceled a perfect goal of the same team. Craiova has only 1 point in the table instead of 6 which normally could have.

Our team: 1.Lung - 18.Dănănae, 7.Găman, 4.Iliev, 6.Ciucă, 2.Bărboianu, 13.Dilevski ('81 27.Piturca), 30.Prepeliţă, 23.Gargorov ('78 77.Wobay), 9.Mihai Costea, 20.Dina ('70 19.Stoianof)

Steaua Bucharest - Universitatea Craiova 2-0

Steaua Bucharest did not made a good impression in the last match played in front of their own supporters, but they won after a bad game, in lack of technical achievements on both sides.

22:00 o'clock was a very inappropriate hour for a football game. Both football teams left the impression they are sleeping on the field. The same sensation had also the viewers of the game. The owners of the both teams, Gigi Becali from Steaua and Adrian Mititelu from Craiova get cursed by the fans and they received trivial invitations to leave the teams for someone else. Both galleries agreed with this point of view during this game.

About the match, but poor words as was the game. Fewer technical achievements. Pleşan two shots on goal in first half both saved by Lung jr. And, perhaps, mostmissed opportunity for Steaua in the first half by Surdu.

Craiova, while seated bravely on the ground, were timid in front of the goal. Mihai Costea was often as individualistic as his older brother. The only occasion was created by Steaua's defender Petre Marin, who in the 38th minute sent a soft pass to his goalkeeper, Firţulescu intercepted but he sent a weak shot near the goal of Tătăruşanu.

In the second half, Arman Karamyan, perhaps the best player of Steaua, openened the score in 70th minute of the game, after a pass from Surdu, who relapsed eight minutes later. Steaua said goodbye to their own supporters with a good result, but with a modest game. Craiova made a pale impression and they still need a victory in the next game to remain in the first Romanian football league.

Our team: Lung - Dănănae, V. Găman ('34 R. Barbu), Iliev, Bălace - Prepeliţă, Dilevski ('71 Gangioveanu), Bărboianu, Firţulescu - M. Costea, Dina ('82 Craciun)

Universitatea Craiova - Steaua Bucharest 1-2

It was a very important game for all the fans of Universitatea Craiova. Unfortunately the result was not the one we expected. Maybe next time...

Our team: Lung - Bădoi, Găman, Stoica, Rose - Prepeliţă, Bărboianu, Şoavă, Firţulescu ('61 Wobay)- F. Costea, M. Costea ('78 V. Badea)

Our goal was scored by Prepelita ('15).

Steaua Bucharest - Universitatea Craiova 2-1

Unfortunately Universitatea Craiova lost this game. But it is still on the 5th position in the table. Steaua scored first in the 18th minute of the game. Only 2 minutes after, Florin Costea scored a beautiful goal for a draw. In the second half Steaua scored again and Craiova lost a new game against a big rival.

Our team for this game: Bornescu - Dananae, Gaman, Stoica, Rose - Prepelita, Dilevski ('82 Dina), Soava - Wobay ('58 M. Costea), N'Jock ('46 Baird), F. Costea

For this game, Romanian Football League did not permit to the fans to enter in stadium. Because of this Craiova's Municipality posted a big screen right in the metropolitan area of this city. Just take a look what happened there: