Training in Austria

Universitatea Craiova was from June 27th in Austria for a training period. The white and blue team stayed «Kurz» Hotel from Lutzmannsburg. Until now our team played a lot of games with European football teams. The results were:June 30th
Universitatea Craiova - Schwadorf 1-2 (our goal was scored by Baird in the 50th minute)
Bornescu (45 Banica) - Dananae (45 Ciuca), Stoica (45 Gargalie), Mitchell (45 Curteanu) - Garla (45 Parvu), Prepelita (45 Lutu), Saceanu (45 Gaman), Velcovici (45 Rose) - Fl. Costea (45 Dina), Stoianof (45 Baird), Wobay (45 Tanasa)
July 1st
Universitatea Craiova - Wurmla 4-0 (Baird 9, Dina 40, Bornescu 52, Wobay 64)
Bornescu - Ciuca (45 Dananae), Gargalie (45 Stoica), Curteanu (45 Mitchell) - Parvu, Lutu(45 Prepelita), Saceanu (45 Garla), Rose (45 Velcovici) - Dina (45 Costea), Baird (45 Stoianof), Tanasa (45 Wobay)
July 3rd
Schwadorf - Universitatea Craiova 0-1 (Fl. Costea 14)
Bornescu - Dananae (45 Ciuca, 75 Dilevski), Stoica (45 Gargalie), Mitchell (45 Curteanu), - Gaman (45 Parvu), Garla (45 Saceanu), Prepelita (45 Lutu), Velcovici (45 Rose) - Costea (45 Dina), Wobay (45 Baird), Stoianof (45 Tanasa)July 4th
Universitatea Craiova - Zarya Lugansk 4-2 (Baird 12, 56, Rose 60, Wobay 79)
Bornescu - Ciucă (45 Garla), Stoica (75 I. Gaman), Mitchell (45 Curteanu) - Dilevski (45 Dananae, 75 Parvu), Prepeliţă (45 Saceanu), Dina (45 Gargalie), Velcovici (45 Rose) - Tănasă (Stoanof), Baird, Costea (45 Wobay)

July 5th
Universitatea Craiova - Neuberg 4-1 (Wobay 26, 50, 65, Gaman 63)
Bănică - Stoianof, Gărgălie, Curteanu - Dilevski, Săceanu (45 Lutu), Gârlă (45 Gangioveanu), Velcovici (45 Barboianu) - Găman, Pârvu, Wobay

July 7th
FC Sopron - Universitatea Craiova 2-1 (Fl. Costea 11)
Bornescu (45 Banica) - Ciucă, Stoica (60 Garla), Mitchell - Dănănae ( Lutu), Gărgălie, Prepeliţă, Rose (60 Velcovici) - Costea (45 Saceanu), Dina (45 Wobay), Tănasă (60 Stoianof)

Our team's program will finnish with 3 matches as follows: July 9th vs Wisla Cracovia, July 11th vs Levski Sofia and July 14th vs Standard Liege.

"White and Blue" by Freddy Garbaci

This is a beautiful book written by a man who describes his passion for a life. I can reproduce some lines bellow:
You have already been warned. Football and words. It's high time to produce, at our level of understanding, literature inspired from life.

Wall, sofa, five meters of hot floor, TV set, another white wall. This is the frame of disaster, it's my living room. Green colored screen with restless little dwarfs crossing a prideless coma, in hard to look covulsions.
From my family I've known we are honest people and that, in this context, it isn't right to support Steaua or Dinamo because they are teams promoted by communists and represent the voracious repression of the state: militia and army.

It was difficult for a child to understand all of this: if and why the communist order was wrong, if and why army and the militia of the communists were bad, which is the connection between football and uniforms, why you can't support some boys running after a ball in shorts and T-shirt, without a helmet and machine gun.

"And remember one thing, he told me : The only team who want to face them is Craiova. It's the only one who fight against them, the only one who refuses to give them players. If you want to be correct you have to look up to the correct ones, not the thieves. If you want to be correct you have to support Craiova". If this people was for just a moment honest with itself, it would have embarassed at a given time to see it's fame in sport being ensured by two clubs called Steaua and Dinamo, it would have thrown away in the cracked comunist reactor, under a concrete coffin and it would have gathered its strenght to cancel 50 years of lies in order to win dignity to restart from scratch. They would have given back to Europe the "Golden Shoe " and "European Campion Cup" trophies.

Campionatul suporterilor

Universitatea Craiova's fans won the game against Dinamo Bucharest ones. It is a TV show called "Fans Championship". The result was estabilshed by SMS voting and Universitatea Craiova had 70% of the total received messages.

Now our fans are qualified for semifinals where we will meet the winner between Poli Timisoara and UTA Arad.
You can see the entire show here:
http://www.editie.ro/mod.php?mod=video&idvideo=757
http://www.editie.ro/mod.php?mod=video&idvideo=756

Spase Dilevski officially presented

Spase Dilevski was officially presented by Universitatea Craiova.

Let's see what is the opinion of a Queensland Roar fan about this transfer of Dilevski in Craiova:
"I knew he was thinking of leaving but i was hoping he would stay with us, he is a very talented right midfielder\\ wingback who is great at crossing. In the A-league over the last couple of seasons he was regularly one of our best players on the field. Your team is lucky to have signed him."
Let's wish good luck for Spase Dilevski.

New player: Spase Dilevski

Spase Dilevski signed for Universitatea Craiova.

He was the former midfield of Queensland Roar. Let's hope he will help our team.

Date of birth: May 13, 1985
Place of birth: Melbourne
Nationality: Australian
Weight: 77 kg
Height: 180 cm
Position: Right Midfielder

Previous Clubs:
2002-03 PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)
2003-04 Rot-Weiss Essen
2004-05 Tottenham Hotspur (England)

Junior Clubs:
Sydneyham Park (VIC)
Representative Honours Achieved: Australian Under 23, Australian Under 20, Australian 17

Player Statistics

Hyundai A-League [ 2005/06 Season ]

GP GS MIN S CS G A Att On Pen Hat OFF FC Y R
19 16 1413 0 0 0 2 21 9 0 0 5 27 4 1

Hyundai A-League [ 2006/07 Season ]

GP GS MIN S CS G A Att On Pen Hat OFF FC Y R
15 10 942 0 0 1 2 26 12 0 0 1 20 3 0

Hyundai A-League [ Career Stats ]

GP GS MIN S CS G A Att On Pen Hat OFF FC Y R
34 26 2355 0 0 1 4 47 21 0 0 6 47 7 1


Legend
NO = Shirt Number POS = Position GP = Games Played
GS = Games Started MIN = Minutes S = Keeper Saves
CS = Keeper Clean sheets G = Goals A = Goal Assists
Att = Attempts on Goal On = Attempts on Target Pen = Penalty Goals
Hat = Hatricks OFF = Offsides FC = Fouls Committed
Y = Cautions R = Expulsions

Josh Mitchell speaks about future

A new season will begin at the end of July. Universitatea Craiova prepares it. Josh Mitchell tells us some of his thoughts concerning this.

Holiday for Universitatea

This Sunday Universitatea Craiova's under 21 football team will play the semifinal playoff games for the title of Champion of Romania. The first team has a well deserved holiday. Although our players visit the official store of the club to buy some promotional materials for their friends and relatives. In the picture from above you may see Mircea Bornescu.

On the other hand Andrei Ionescu is still refusing to renovate his contract with Universitatea Craiova. Taking into account that he was junior player for this team he may be for 2 years suspended if he will not accept Universitatea Craiova's proposed contract.

Did you saw the T-shirts of these players of Universitatea Craiova? That's good. Che Guevara is the spirit of our football team.

Universitatea Craiova - The Legend

Universitatea Craiova had a strong football team in the '80s. Players like Lung, Negrila, Tilihoi, Ungureanu, Ticleanu, Stefanescu, Crisan, Balaci, Camataru, Cartu, Irimescu, Geolgau, Beldeanu, Donose or Ciupitu made history for Romania. You may some images from that time in the video bellow.

Oltenia Eterna Terra Nova

The anthem of Universitatea Craiova sounds good at a wedding. You can see on the people faces the joy and the hapiness when this song sounds.

In Craiova, the love for our football team is quite a religion.

Prepelita and Tanasa signed for Universitatea Craiova

Ciprian Tanasa and Anderi Prepelita came from Fc Arges Pitesti. They have a serious First Romanian Football League experience and we hope they will help Universitatea Craiova in the next season.

Universitatea Craiova - UT Arad 2-1

Universitatea Craiova ended this season with a victory in front of their fans. The final score was 2-1 because of the goals scored in the first half by Joshua Rose.

Before this game there were presented the new T-shirts for the next season. They will be ADIDAS.The final table look like below:

1	Dinamo	34	23	8	3	63	24	77p	(+26)
2	Steaua	34	21	8	5	61	22	71p	(+20)
3	CFR Cluj	34	21	6	7	59	32	69p	(+18)
4	Rapid	34	16	11	7	63	39	59p	(+8)
5	Oţelul	34	17	5	12	60	56	56p	(+5)
6	Gloria	34	16	6	12	42	35	54p	(+3)
7	Poli Timişoara	34	15	8	11	37	33	53p	(+2)
8	FC Vaslui	34	13	11	10	41	44	50p	(-1)
9	U Craiova	34	12	12	10	39	43	48p	(-3)
10	Urziceni	34	13	8	13	30	29	47p	(-4)
11	Pandurii	34	13	5	16	26	35	44p	(-7)
12	UTA	34	11	8	15	28	39	41p	(-10)
13	Poli Iaşi	34	10	10	14	34	41	40p	(-11)
14	Farul	34	8	13	13	31	35	37p	(-14)
15	Ceahlăul	34	8	7	19	27	53	31p	(-20)
16	FC Argeş	34	5	9	20	23	47	24p	(-27)
17	FC Naţional	34	6	6	22	27	52	24p	(-27)
18	Jiul	34	5	5	24	15	47	20p	(-31)

Farul Constanta - Universitatea Craiova 0-0

Universitatea Craiova came back from Constanta with a draw. This happened because Michael Baird took a red card. If he was more careful Universitatea Craiova should won the sixth consecutive game today.

Let's say we can not lose the 10th place in the table of Romanian Football First League. One game to play and we have a 2 weeks holiday.

Queen - The Miracle

A legendary rock band who given so much songs for football. One of the most used is We Are The Champions which is often heared on the stadiums. I like this song, too. Queen - The Miracle.

Politehnica Timisoara - Universitatea Craiova 1-5

Showtime! Yes is real. This was the real score of the game played totday. Universitatea Craiova won another game.
Our team was: Bornescu - Ciucă, D. Stoica, Mitchell - Dănănae, Gărgălie (Gârlă '75), Dina (Velcovici '87), Rose - Fl. Costea (Săceanu '46), Wobay - Baird. Trainer: Florin Cioroianu



This game will remain into our collection of good matches. Our goals were made by Mihai Dina('6), Dorel Stoica('62,'84) and Michael Baird('54,'90).

Universitatea Craiova - Jiul Petrosani 2-0

Universitatea Craiova won another game today. Now we are on the 10th place in Romanian First Football League. We have 41 points in the table and there are 3 more games to play.
Our team was: Bornescu - Ciucă, Stoica, Curteanu - Dănănae, Gărgălie (Velcovici '80), Gârlă(Saceanu '45), Rose - Njock, Costea I, Wobay(Dina '45)

The goals of this game were scored by Jeremie N'Jock(57th minute) and Mihai Dina(74th minute).

Pandurii Tg Jiu - Universitatea Craiova 0-2

Today Universitatea Craiova won the third consecutive game. Mircea Bornescu, its goalkeeper did not received a goal from 4 matches. Our team was: Bornescu - Ciucă (Velcovici '87), D. Stoica, Mitchell - Dănănae, Gârlă (Săceanu '70), Gărgălie, Rose - F. Costea, Dina - Baird (Njock '77)

The goals of Universitatea Craiova were scored by F. Costea(59th min.) and M.Dina(75th min.).

4 men in Romania's national football team

Mihai Dina, Dorel Stoica, Madalin Ciuca and Mircea Bornescu played today for Romanian's national football team. It was a trial against Romanian U21 team. The score of this game was 1-0.

Go Romania!

Universitatea Craiova - FC National Bucharest 1-0

Another 3 points for our team. It was not a nice game, but Universitatea Craiova reached their goal this time.

6.000 viewers assisted at this game. For Universitatea Craiova scored Joshua Rose in the 39th minute of the game.

Our team was: Bornescu Ciuca D. Stoica Mitchell Dananae Gargalie A. Ionescu Rose (Velcovici '72) Dina Costea I (N'Jock '81) Baird (Wobay '60) Trainer: Florin Cioroianu


Now Universitatea Craiova is on the 12th post in Romanian First Football League.

Ceahlaul Piatra-Neamt - Universitatea Craiova 0-2

Universitatea Craiova won a game after 11 matches without victory. Florin Cioroianu debuted with a victory in his Liga I career.

Our team was: Bornescu - Ciucă, D. Stoica, Mitchell - Dănănae, Dina, Gârlă ('79 A. Ionescu), Gãrgãlie, Rose - Costea I ('90 Wobay), Baird ('76 Parvu)

Florin Costea scored the first goal of the game in the 12th minute. Mihai Dina scored too, in the second half of the game (84th minute).

Universitatea Craiova - Unirea Urziceni 0-0

A new draw and Universitatea Craiova has serious problems with the remaining in the first Romanian footbal league.



After this game Stefan Stoica was dismissed. The new trainer of Universitatea Craiova is Florin Cioroianu. Let's wait for the next game against Ceahlaul Piatra-Neamt.

Gil Dobrica R.I.P.

Gil Dobirca died this Tuesday, April 17th 2007. He was a great artist, a kind man and he was born in Craiova. This little tribute is a sign we know celebrate our values.

Rest In Peace, Gil Dobrica.

Otelul Galati - Universitatea Craiova 4-1

Universitatea Craiova lost the game against Otelul Galati. Last autumn Otelul won in Craiova with 2-0. This time, in Galati, the score was hard to ignore. A 4-1 which left all Universitatea Craiova's fans speachless.The team was: Banica - Dananae, Ciuca (Curteanu ‘46), Mitchell, Velcovici (Gârla ‘46) - Pârvu, Saceanu (Baird ‘46), Dina, Wobay - Njock, Costea I.Our goal was scored by Jeremie N'Jock after an assist signed Michael Baird. Let's hope we can do something better in the next game, at Craiova, against Unirea Urziceni.

Universitatea Craiova - CFR Cluj 0-1

Universitatea Craiova lost another game and has more reasons to be affraid of. Let's hope our team will not arrive again in the second football league of Romania.

SKA-P - Cannabis

Because I had success with the last song I posted here, I will show you another one: SKA-P - Hasta siempre marijuana

Politehnica Iasi - Universitatea Craiova 1-1

Universitatea Craiova made a new draw official game. Our team was: Bornescu - Săceanu, Ciucă, Mitchell, Rose - Costea I (’83 Gârlă), Stoica, Wobay (’90 Gărgălie), Velcovici - Dina, Njock (’90 Baird)



The goal of Universitatea Craiova was scored by Florin Costea in the 44th minute. Politehnica Iasi scored in the 88th minute from a penalty kick. Universitatea Craiova played from the 38th minute with 10 players on the field. Joshua Rose get a red card and will miss in the next game.

Dorel Stoica's first game for Romania

Dorel Stoica, the captain of Universitatea Craiova, debuted in Romania's National football team. He played Tuesday, March 28th against Luxembourg starting with the 87th minute substituting Tamas. Stoica played as central defender and carried the number 13 T-shirt.

In the same day, another player of Universitatea Craiova, Jullius Wobay played for his National football team in a game against Togo, and scored the goal of Sierra Leone.

Valerian Garla played also for U21 Romanian football team.

Universitatea Craiova - Gloria Bistrita 1-2

Universitatea Craiova lost its first official game after 5 months. It was a good game but our team could not keep the advantage created in the 70th minute of the match by the goal scored by Jeremie N'Jock.

Our team used the following football players:
Bornescu - Dananae, Mitchell, D. Stoica, Rose - Saceanu(Baird), Costea(Ciuca), Dina(Parvu), Velcovici - Wobay, N'Jock.

Natalia Cardone - Hasta siempre comandante

This song is a symbol of the fight of Universitatea Craiova's fans.

Beautiful girls who love football

No more words.

Universitatea Craiova promote its image in a high school

Universitatea Craiova played a friendly game with the pupils from "Electroputere" Craiova High School. At this match were 1000 fans who wanted to view their idols on the field.

Universitatea won this game by 5-3 (1-3).

This game was played was a nice and happy training for Universitatea Craiova's players and also a good oportunity for the children from "Electroputere" High School to show their infinite love for this football team.

Dinamo Bucharest - Universitatea Craiova 0-0

Universitatea Craiova did a good game in Bucharest against the team from the first place in Romanian Championship. After this game Universitatea Craiova arrived on the 10th place in the table.



Out team had the following players: Bornescu - Dananae, Stoica, Mitchell, Rose - Dina ('90 Gargalie), F.Costea ('68 Parvu), Saceanu, Velcovici - Njock, Wobay

Universitatea Craiova - Rapid Bucharest 0-0

Universitatea Craiova played against Rapid Bucharest in Bucharest. This was something strange because Craiova should be the host team. In the last home game our fans made some troubles and our home stadium was suspended for 2 match days. This was the fist day of exil for Universitatea.

Our team had the following players: Bornescu-Dananae, Ciuca, Mitchell, Rose-Saceanu(Dina '90+1), Stoica ( cpt ) Velcovici-Wobay-Njock, Baird(Garla '70)

Universitatea Craiova did a good game and only a lack of fortune made this game to finish as a draw. The only bad happening was the bad attitude of Ionel Ganea from Rapid Bucharest who kicked in the face Michael Baird on the way to dressing room. This happened in the break time.

FC Arges - Universitatea Craiova 0-0

Yesterday, at -5 Celsius degree, Universitatea Craiova met FC Arges at Pitesti. Our team played well and after 90 minutes the game ended with draw 0-0. The most valuable player of our team was Julius Wobay who made a good game, even he was a little nervous in the start of the game.

Our team had the following composition: Bornescu - Dănănae, Ciucă, Mitchell, Rose - Pârvu (’22 Gârlă), Săceanu, Gărgălie, Dina (’78 Baird) - Wobay (’90 Costea I), NjockLet's remind here the good play made by Madalin Ciuca (at his first game in Liga I) and Mircea Bornescu who closed the goal of Universitatea Craiova. Madalin Ciuca is one of the most important players of Universitatea Craiova but he had the bad luck to suffer an injury in the last day of the past Second League Champinoship. After seven moths he came back with a very nice evolution as a defender for Universitatea Craiova.

Universitatea Craiova - Politehnica Timisoara 2-1

The last friendly game before the start of the second part of championship. For Universitatea scored N'Jock '29, Fl. Costea '79 from penalty kick. The goal of the visitors was scored by Mansour.

Universitatea Craiova used the following players: Banica - Dananae, Ciuca, Mitchell, Rose - Pirvu, Saceanu, D. Stoica, Velcovici - Njock, Wobay.
Substitutes: Dina, Baird, Girla, Fl. Costea, I. Gaman. Antrenor: Stefan Stoica.

CSM Ramnicu-Valcea - Universitatea Craiova 1-2

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA used this team: Banica - Gârla, Ciuca, Mitchell, Rose - I. Gaman, Dina, Gargalie, Velcovici - Costea I, Costea II

In the second part of the game entered: Bornescu, Baird, Wobay, Njock, Dananae, Stoica, Pârvu and Saceanu.

For Craiova scored Jeremy N'Jock and Dorel Stoica (from penalty kick).

Universitatea Craiova - Rilski Sportist 2-0

Universitatea Craiova met Rilski Sportist in a friendly game. The score was established in the firts half of the game. The goals were made by Michael Baird in the 22nd minute and Jeremy Njock in the 42nd minute.

The team was: Bornescu - Dănănae (‘84 Gârlă), Ciucă (‘80 V. Găman), Mitchell (‘80 Curteanu), Rose (‘86 Bărboianu) - Pârvu (‘63 Argintaru), Stoica (‘86 Piko), Dina (‘66 Gărgălie), Wobay (‘77 Costea II) - Baird (‘46 Velcovici), Njock (‘80 I. Găman)

It deserves to be mentioned that Wobay had an assist at the goal scored by Baird. Universitatea Craiova is getting better with every passing day.

Universitatea Craiova - Kralia Sovietov Samara 0-1

Universitatea Craiova lost this Tuesday with 1-0 the match with Kralia Sovietov Samara (Russia, 10th place in Russian first football league). This was a friendly game played in cyprus and stoped by the reffere in the 87th minute because the lighting system crashed.
The only goal of the game was scored in the 85th minute. Stefan Stoica sent the following team on the field: Bornescu - Dănănae, Ciucă, Mitchel - Gârlă, Săceanu, Stoica, Rose - Pârvu, Wobay, Njock. After first time played also: Bărboianu, Gărgălie, Curteanu, Dina, Baird and Velcovici.

Universitatea Craiova - Daejon Citizen 3-0

Universitatea Craiova begun this game in the standard formula: Bornescu - Dananae, Ciuca, Mitchell, Rose - Saceanu, Stoica - Parvu, Wobay, Velcovici - Njock

For Universitatea scored N'Jock (two goals) and Wobay.

After the first half, for Craiova played the following team: Banica - Garla, V. Gaman, Curteanu, Barboianu - I. Gaman, Piko, Gargalie, Argintaru - Baird, Costea II

Alki Larnaca - Universitatea Craiova 0-2

Alki Larnaka is on the first place in the second Cyprus football league. Yesterday Universitatea Craiova met this local team and made a better game than last Monday. Stefan Stoica begun the game with the formal substitutes and finished it with the most important players on the field.

Until the 65th minute Universitatea played in the follwoing formula:
Bănică - Gârlă, Ciucă, V. Găman, Curteanu - Argintaru, Piko, Gărgălie, Bărboianu - Costea II, Pătraşcu

From the 65th minute the team was:
Neagoe - Dănănae, Stoica, Mitchell, Rose - Pârvu, Săceanu, Dina, Velcovici - Wobay, Njock

The scorer of the both goals for Craiova was Mihai Dina.

Universitatea Craiova - Tavria Simferopol 1-4

Yesterday Universitatea Craiova lost a friendly game with 4-1 against a team from Ukraine called Tavria Simferopol. Our goal was scored by Jeremie N'Jock. It deserves to be mentioned that Mircea Bornescu missed the goal at a penalty kick. Yes, you red right. At Universitatea Craiova there is a goalkeeper who kicks all the penalties.

You may see some images below:

Thomas Korontai

This is the new fitness trainer of Universitatea Craiova. His name is Thomas Korontai and he came in Romania from Germany. Stefan Crisan, our goalkeeper trainer, brought Thomas from Nurenberg.

For the next 2 weeks Thomas and Stefan will join the entire team in Cyprus for the preparation of the second part of Romanian Football Championship. We wish them good luck and we hope they will do a great job.

FC Caracal - Universitatea Craiova 1-1

Today Universitatea Craiova played another friendly game. At 14:00 o'clock Craiova played against FC Caracal. The final result was 1-1. The goals were scored by Sergiu Popescu (for Fc Caracal) and Gabriel Velcovici (for Universitatea Craiova). You can see some images below.



Now our team will fly in Cyprus for 2 weeks of preparations until the start of the second part of Romanian Football Championship.

Universitatea Craiova - CFR Timisoara 2-0

Yesterday at 11:00 o'clock Universitatea Craiova played another friendly game. For this time, the opponent team was CFR Timisoara, 10th place on Second Romanian Football League.

Craiova did a good game and won by 2-0. The goal scorers were Jullius Wobay and Jeremy N'Jock. 2 football players who came in Craiova this winter.The trainer of Universitatea Craiova, Stefan Stoica, used in the first half of the game, the following players: Bornescu - Dananae, Mitchell, Tambouras, Rose - Argintaru, Saceanu, Stoica, Dina - Njock, Wobay. In the second half played also for Craiova: Velcovici, Garla, Curteanu, Ignat, Piko, Costea II and Barboianu.

After this match, Stefan Stoica concluded: Stefan Stoica: "I did not like the second half of the game. I'd like Universitatea Craiova to be a fighter. In the second half, my team did not fight as in the first one."

Universitatea Craiova's Official Fan Store

New products with Universitatea Craiova's logo were made. You may see them in the picture below. For further orders place a comment here. Good luck!

Universitatea Craiova - Minerul Lupeni 1-0

Today Universitatea Craiova debuted in its first football match on 2007. It was a friendly game played at Herculane, a nice place in Romanian mountains, against Minerul Lupeni, a team placed on the front of second Romanian football league.

In the first 45 minutes the team was composed from: Bornescu, Dananae, Ciuca, Mitchell, Velcovici, Stoica, Rose, NJock, Wobay, Garla, Saceanu. In the second half of the game, were used the following players: Banica, Barboianu, Ignat, Tambouras, Curteanu, Argintaru, Piko, Gargalie, Velcovici, Dina, Costea II.

So, only Velcovici played 90 minutes for Craiova. In fact he was the only scorer of this game because of his goal from 83rd minute of the game. Argintaru did a good passing shot and Velcovici made all the supporters of this game happy.

We have some opinions after this game.
Adrian Mititelu (the owner of the club): "It seems Wobay is the player who we were expected and in the following games you will see this."
Stefan Stoica (Universitatea Craiova's trainer): "It was an useful test. We came after 3 very hard trainnig sessions made yesterday and nobody forced to win this game."

John Tambouras comes to Craiova

The central defender of New Zealand Knights, comes this Wednesday in Craiova for training with Universitatea Craiova. Stefan Stoica has good references about this football player and he wants to see John Tambouras playing for our team.

On January the 10th, at the same time with the others Australians will be present the Greek origin Aussie named John Tambouras. He was born in January 30th 1979, and comes to Craiova for free. He played football for South Melbourne(Australia), Kalamata (Greece), Auckland Knights(New Zealand), Pahand(Malaya) and New Zealand Knights(New Zealand) where he was colleague with Joshua Rose (who play for Craiova from this past summer).

Stefan Stoica knows him from Kalamata, a former Greek good team which used to play in European cups in the time he was working in Greece. Let's wait and see what can Tambouras do.

Universitatea Craiova's Official Fan Store

On December 22nd, Universitatea Craiova opened its Official Fan Store. This premiere was a good present for the fans of this beloved team. A big number of fans were waiting in front of this store this big event. The total amount of sale in the first 2 days after opening was around of 15,000 Euro. That was a record on Romanian sport market, because no other football team reported such a success until now.We are waiting for the on-line store to be opened soon.

Jeremie N'Jock is back at Universitatea Craiova

The Giant Is Back

Universitatea paid $400,000 to French football team Brest for the transfer of Jeremie N'Jock, who will play in Craiova until 2010.

The second bomb on transfer market in this winter is a former player of Universitatea Craiova, the striker Jeremie N'Jock, who accepted to come back here after 2 years. Universitatea agreed with the French football club Brest and paid $400,000 for the 26 years old Cameroon player. Last night, at 20:00 o'clock these 2 clubs agreed, and the management stuff of Universitatea Craiova who went at Brest took the transfer papers. "The Giant" has 1.96m height, 93Kg and foot measure 47!! He also played in Romania at UTA (23 games, 9 goals), Universitatea Craiova (33 games, 15 goals) and in Belgium at Mons (33 games, 18 goals) and France, Mons (17 games, 1 goal).

Julius Gibrilla Wobay signed for Craiova

Universitatea bought, for $450.000, 22 years old midfield from Sierra Leone, from NEA Salamina-Cyprus team.

Wobay is a left foot player, has a rare explosion, is very technique and quick too. I am sure he will be one from the first three players from Romanian First Football League. He will conquer Universitatea Craiova's fans from the first friendly games.

Ştefan Stoica

The first player brought by Universitatea Craiova in this winter comes from Sierra Leone via Cyprus. His name is Julius Gibrilla Woobay and he plays for Sierra Leone National Football Team. He was born on May 19th 1984 and plays as an offensive midfield, a kind of second striker. The price of this player was $450.000 and this is the most expansive transfer made by Universitatea Craiova. This amount is bigger than any other sum payed for  Radu Niculescu, Adrian Toader, Daniel Chirita or Cristian Chivu. Wobay signed for 4 years and a half and he will came in Craiova this Wednesday.

Olympiakos Pireu was also interested in bringing Wobay

More Cyprus teams were interested to buy Wobay. One of them was Omonia Nicosia, the team which has Romanian Ioan Andone as a trainer, but also the champions of Greece, Olympiakos Pireu, wanted him. "Our luck was the fact that Olympiakos Pireu already had too much foreign player in their team, so we succeded to bring Wobay at Craiova", said Fane Stoica. Last spring, Vitoria Guimaraes wanted to buy Wobay, but in the last the deal wasn't made. In the last season, Wobay was the second in the goal scorers table from Cyprus championship. He did 12 goals last year and 4 goals in this season. The most famous football player from Sierra Leone was the former player of Inter Milano and AS Monaco, Mohammed Kallon.

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«I barely wait to beat Dinamo and Steaua!»

Wobay weared already Universitatea Craiova T-shirt and he will officially play this spring.

Reporter: Are you happy you signed for Universitatea Craiova?

Julius Gibrilla Wobay: I am very happy I arrived at Universitatea, I've heard it is a good team. I don't now much about this team but I learn quick and I will know more until the meeting with my new colleagues.

How do you see your future at Craiova?

First of all I hope to be chosen to play in the first team, I hope to gather as much as possible points is possible and I barely wait to beat Dinamo and Steaua, because I did understood is a big competition between these teams.

What do you say to the fans?

I wish them Merry Christmas and all the best. I promise I will do all my best for Universitatea Craiova and I hope to realise high performances shortly.

Joshua Rose's Wedding

At Joshua Rose's wedding were Michael Baird and Dan Stanilescu. All of them sent us the best wishes for Universitatea Craiova and its fans. At this event, Josh Mitchell, who lives in Newcastle, was missing. He couldn't arrive in time in Gold Coast. The celebration took place at Aqua Restaurant from Broadwarer, Gold Coast. There were 80 guests at this wedding and they had fun from 15.30 until 00.30. You may see some images from the wedding of Joshua Rose with Jeni here.

Universitatea Craiova - Steaua Bucharest 0-0

Great fight. Nice game. No goals. Universitatea Craiova - Steaua Bucharest 0-0.
The intermediate table shows like this:
1 Dinamo 19 17 1 1 41-10 52 +22
2 Steaua 19 11 6 2 37-10 39 +9
3 Rapid 19 10 6 3 33-14 36 +6
4 CFR Cluj 19 11 3 5 38-24 36 +9
5 Poli Tm. 19 9 5 5 20-14 32 +2
6 Gloria 19 9 3 7 24-19 30 0
7 Vaslui 19 8 4 7 25-29 28 -2
8 Otelul 19 8 3 8 24-32 27 0
9 UTA 19 7 3 9 17-20 24 -6
10 Poli Iasi 19 6 6 7 22-26 24 -3
11 Craiova 19 6 6 7 22-33 24 -6
12 Pandurii 19 6 5 8 15-20 23 -4
13 Urziceni 19 6 4 9 14-19 22 -5
14 Farul 19 5 6 8 20-21 21 -6
15 Ceahlaul 19 5 2 12 13-29 17 -10
16 Arges 19 4 2 13 13-26 14 -16
17 Jiul 19 3 5 11 9-24 14 -13
18 National 19 3 4 12 13-30 13 -14

FC Vaslui - Universitatea Craiova 3-3

The goals of Universitatea Craiova were scored by A. Ionescu, Fl. Parvu and G. Velcovici. This was an heart attack game. Fc Vaslui had a penalty kick in the 5th minute of the game. Croitoru tried to score but Mircea Bornescu, Universitatea's goalkeeper caught the ball. More than this Andrei Ionescu scored by a beautiful shoot form 25 metres and Craiova had 1-0. In the second half Lucian Parvu scored again for Craiova and the score became 2-0. Fc Vaslui reduced the difference at 2-1, but Gabriel Velcovici scored again for Craiova. It was the 82nd minute of the game and Craiova had 3-1. In the last 10 minutes of this game FC Vaslui scored twice and the final result was 3-3. Universitatea Craiova won only a point in this game even they deserved to came home with all the 3 points from Vaslui.

Andrei Ionescu scores for 1-0

Lucian Parvu scores for 2-0

Gabriel Velcovici scores for 3-1

Unfortunately, a football game has 90 minutes and an extra time.

UT Arad - Universitatea Craiova 1-0

It was a very hard game for both teams. Universitatea Craiova came at this game without 9 formal players. A big number of them suffered injuries in this autumn and others accumulated 4 yellow cards that means an automate suspension for the next game.In such conditions, our team had an average age of 22 years old being probably the youngest football team in Romanian First Football League ever. Universitatea Craiova resisted until the 84th minute without goal. In the end of the game Hidisan scored for UTA and Craiova returned home with empty hands. The next game will be next week against FC Vaslui.

Brasil at World Cup 2006

Everybody knows why Brasil is famous in the World: the most powerful football team and beautiful ladies. This year the Brasilian football team did not made a quite good evolution. Even they were the last Champions Of The World, this year Ronaldinho, Ronaldo or Roberto Carlos left early the competition.The results of their games were:
Brasil - Croatia 1-0
Brasil - Australia 2-0
Japan - Brasil 1-4
Brasil - Ghana 3-0
France - Brasil 1-0
For any other football team in the World such an evolution should be considered as a success. For Brasil not. That because they have 5 titles of Wolrd Champion in their history.

Universitatea Craiova - Farul Constanta 1-0

It was a great fight this game. Universitatea won because of the goal scored by Saceanu, the player who carries nr. 8 T-shirt. In Craiova nr.8 is the most important number of the team. Great football players had this number and they never disappointed their fans. Their names: Ilie Balaci, Gh. Craioveanu, P. Badea, S. Cristescu.

So, nowadays, Saceanu is the man who continues this tradition.

Unfortunately, this game was spoiled by some incidents in stadium. A group of fans attacked another fan of the same team. This happening tells enough about the primitive civilization in Romanian stadiums. See the picture bellow:I hope such things never happen again.

Universitatea Craiova - Politehnica Timisoara 0-1

It was a game of complete and continous effort. Both teams worked hard to winn this game. This time wonn Timisoara. Because this team were more experienced. Between Craiova and Timisoara there was alawys a relation of respect and the result of this game was one result which never upset one of the fans of both teams. In other words, the happiness of such a game is greater than the result of it.

Craiova loves Timisoara and Timisoara loves Craiova.

Australia at World Cup 2006

Australia is a team which participated for only few times at this competition. That is because in this country the football means something else than in Europe or in America. Anyhow, Cangaroo's team had a good presence this year in Germany.The games they played were:
Japan - Australia 1-3
Brasil - Australia 2-0
Croatia - Australia 2-2
Italia - Australia 1-0Universitatea Craiova has 3 Australian football players who did a good job here until now. Their names: Michael Baird, Josh Mitchell and Joshua Rose. Let's hope you will hear these names again.

Rapid Bucharest - Universitatea Craiova 1-0

On November 8th, Universitatea Craiova played for the quarters of final in Romanian Cup. It was a beautiful game but unfortunately ended with a score which will be hard for Craiova's fans to accept.

The goal of the team from Bucharest was scored by a lucky shoot from free kick of Badoi. He is a player who was refused by Universitatea Craiova few years ago. Let's hope we can do better games in the future. We lost the participation in the Romanian Cup but we still have to fight in The First League. The next game will be this Sunday against Politehnica Timisoara.

Jiul Petrosani - Universitatea Craiova 1-2

Universitatea Craiova succeceded again today and climbs on the 10th post of the Romanian 1st League table. The goals of our team were scored by Gabriel "The Baron" Velcovici and Lucian Parvu. You can see the second goal of the game in the video below:

Forza Stiinta! means Go Universitatea Craiova. Stiinta is the old name of this glorious Romanian football team.