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.

Marcel Iures

Probably the most known Romanian movie actor is Marcel Iures. He was born in August 2nd 1951 in Bailesti, Dolj. He was part in Hollywood movies as "Interview With The Vampire"(1994), "Mission: Impossible"(1996), "The Pacemaker"(1997) or in the most interesting movie about football - "Goal!"(2005).

Being one of the VIP fans of Universitatea Craiova he was asked in 2014 by a TV reporter what is his opinion about CSU - the new football team of Craiova. His answer was as clear as possible: "Please don't ask me about CSU! For me there is only Stiinta (n.r. the nickname of Universitatea Craiova)."

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 ?

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.

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.

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.

Funds raising for Universitatea Craiova

Fans of FC Universitatea Craiova decided to raise money for blue-white football players. Today, in the bank accounts supporters have opened, came first money.

This gesture was made ​​by supporters of FC Universitatea Craiova, who want to collect money as a bonus for our players. If they will not collect an amount to help reward the players in 2 months, the money will be returned to those who have sent.

"Boys need to be helped and this worth it, because they play for us. They represent Stiinta, and we are Stiinta "wrote a fan on Facebook. The financial situation of the two accounts in national currency (RON) and Euro will be presented to any person who donated ​​a sum of money.

These are the bank accounts:

RO57INGB0000999902763027 

RO96INGB0000999903904306 

If you want to support Universitatea Craiova you may use the donate button placed in the right of this page. Thank you.

Romanian Football's Mafia In Court

The head of Professional Football League (LPF), Dumitru Dragomir, was heard again by DNA's prosecutors concerning FC Universitatea Craiova expulsion case.

Unlike two weeks ago, when Dragomir created a circus in front of the DNA institution, today, LPF's boss was confined to declare that "It is my business what I said to the prosecutors". He will soon get in prison.

Mircea Sandu, president of Romanian Football Federation (FRF), is accused of bribery and Dragomir of complicity. Dragomir transferred 400.000 €, representing TV broadcasting rights of Gloria Bistrita, into an account of Mircea Sandu's wife, Elisabeta. Dragomir's official motivation was that Sandu's wife had loaned the football club Gloria Bistrita the same amount. In respect with this loan an affidavit was prepared, but there is no bank transaction showing that the loan was indeed granted.

That is why, investigators suspect that, in fact, Elisabeta Sandu did not ever gave Gloria Bistrita money and the transfer was, as a matter of fact, bribes for FRF's President.

World Cup 2010 - South Africa

New results since my last post here.

South Africa - Uruguay 0-3

France - Mexico 0-2

Greece - Nigeria 2-1

Argentina - Korea Republic 4-1

Slovenia - USA 2-2

England - Algeria 0-0

Germany - Serbia 0-1

I am continuing to present some particular words from South Africa.

Imbomu = this was the initial name of vuvuzele
Afrikaans = West Germanic language, mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. There are 6 million of native speaking of this language.

New games in World Cup 2010

World Cup is still continuing in South Africa. There new games played since my last post here:

Netherlands - Denmark 2-0

Japan - Cameroon 1-0

Italy - Paraguay 1-1

Slovakia - New Zealand 1-1

Côte d'Ivoire - Portugal 1-1

Brazil - Korea DPR 2-1

A new South African expression, is rather a nick name. The famous ex-presindet Nelson Mandela is called by people Mandiba.

World Cup 2010

On 11th of June started World Cup 2010. At the opening show there were numerous stars present. Between them, Shakira or Black Eyed Peas.

It is a really nice ediotion played in South Africa. The fans are great and the football played there is really good. These are the first results:

South Africa - Mexico 1-1

Uruguay - France 0-0

Argentina - Nigeria 1-0

Korea Republic - Greece 2-0

England - USA 1-1

Algeria - Slovenia 0-1

Germany - Australia 4-0

Serbia - Ghana 0-1

Here I present you a list of South African expressions:

vuvuzela = a horn used by fans to create a big noise during football games

bafana-bafana = the name of South Africa's national football team

bombela = a very fast train built in South Africa before this World Cup 2010. Its speed can 250 Km/hour.

Ciprian Tanasa come back

Ciprian Tanasa came back to our beloved football team. He was one of the most important football players in last season. He played half season for Politehnica Iasi but now he came back home. We hope Tanasa will be again a very good striker of Universitatea Craiova. You may see him in the video below:

Josh Mitchell

Today is the birthday of Universitatea Craiova's player, Josh Mitchell. Happy Birthday, Josh!
Statistics:
Birth date: 08.06.1984
Height: 1,82 m
Weight: 73 kg
Nationality: Australian
Post: central defender / left defender
T-shirt number: 4
Debut in Liga I: 29.07.2006 • Universitatea Craiova - FC Vaslui 0-0
2005-2006 Universitatea Craiova - 23 matches / 0 goals
2006-2007 Universitatea Craiova - 29 matches / 1 goal

Julius Wobay

The most beloved football player from Universitatea Craiova is Julius Wobay. The video below tell us why:

Italy prepares Euro 2008

Italy's National Football team was making the last preparations for Euro 2008. In meantime 2 beautiful girls almost naked entered in the field and tried to touch the players. Nice striptease act.

Oltenia - a holly land

Oltenia is the region where Craiova is. This region contains 5 districts: Olt, Dolj, Vîlcea, Gorj, Mehedinti. It is placed in South-West of Romania and used to be the richest part of Valachia, the ancient name of Romania between XIIth and XIXth Centuries. For this reason the financial center of Valachia was in Craiova, which was called Bania. This word means in ancient Romanian language "the bank" or the place were the money is.
This name was received because in this part of Romania there are long and wealthy fields which are very good for agriculture. In that period Romania was a great producer of grain, corn and food. All the money resulted where gathered in Craiova where the richest men used to live. That is the reason for well known pride of actual Oltenia's people. Even the money were here, the political strings and buttons were pulled and pressed in Bucharest. That is the reason for a traditional hate between Craiova and Bucharest.
In soccer, this rival spirit was conserved. And the reason was the permanent repression of Bucharest's rulers against Universitatea Craiova, the most beloved Romanian football team. In our days, Universitatea Craiova fight against Bucharest, and a victory against Steaua, Dinamo or Rapid Bucharest is very appreciated here. This is Oltenia's spirit. Universitatea Craiova is our religion.

The game I saw

Once in a year Universitatea Craiova fights against Dinamo Bucharest. Sure, some of you are intended to say is just a game. But not. Is not just a game. It is a real fight. Let's see what happened this year:

I hope you liked my video.

Andrei Ionescu signed for Craiova

Andrei Ionescu, the most important Romanian young player from the last 10 years in Craiova signed yesterday a five years contract with Universitatea Craiova.This young player debuted for Universitatea Craiova at 17 years in Romanian second Football League. He was the most important midfield of our team. When he made 18 years old he finished his junior carrier being forced by the law to sign a profesional contract with the team who discovered him. The negociations took about 6 months but finally, the result was great. He will play for Craiova next week against FC Vaslui.
Today, Universitatea Craiova meets UTA Arad in a game without viewers. That is because last match our fans made troubles in Bucharest on Rapid's stadium. Let's hope for a good result.

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Happy Birthday Michael Baird!

Today Michael Baird arrives at 24 years old. He is one of the most important strikers from Universitatea Craiova. He may celebrate his anniversary scoring in the very next game, this Saturday against Politehnica Iasi.Happy Birthday, Michael! I wish you all the best and I hope you will score more goals than you scored last year.