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Ovidiu Stanga comes back

Universitatea Craiova have a new trainer. His name is Ovidiu Stanga. As a matter of fact is an ex trainer of this team. A year ago he resinged after 9 games played. Let's see what will be the effect now.

Universitatea Craiova - Unirea Urziceni 0-1

Another game lost by Universitatea Craiova. That was the 4th. It was 0-0 until 90th minute of the game. In the last minute Unirea Urziceni get a penalty kick and scored for 3 points. That was really a bad luck.

Pandurii Tg Jiu - Universitatea Craiova 2-0

Another lost game. Universitatea Craiova lost the game against Pandurii Tg Jiu and now is on the 12th place on the table. That is almost a tragedy because our team used to win the games played in Tg Jiu. This result is worst than in last years.The trainer Florin Cioroianu presented his resigantion. But the board of Universitatea Craiova refused to aprove it. The new general manager of our team is Ilie Balaci. 4 players were sent to the second team (Stoica, Saceanu, Dina, Gargalie) and other 2 were 10,000 $ imposed (Baird, Bornescu). In this game Universitatea Craiova used the following team:
Bornescu – Dananae, Ciuca, Mitchell, Rose – Prepelita (’78 Wobay), Gargalie, Velcovici – Costea I, Baird, Dina (’68 Saceanu).

In the next game against Unirea Urziceni we can not use Stoica, Dina, Saceanu, Gargalie (sent to the second team), Michael Baird (red carded in Tg Jiu), Tanasa and Bornescu (medical problems). Our technical stuff need to find young players who replace them.

Universitatea Craiova - CFR Cluj 1-3

In front of 20.000 viewers, last night, Universitatea Craiova lost the game against C.F.R. Cluj.

First goal of the oponent team was scored in the 3rd minute of the game by Eugen Trica, a former player of Universitatea Craiova between 1994-1998. He had a fight with the Universitatea Craiova's fans after the game.

Universitatea: Bornescu – Dănănae, Ciucă, Mitchell, Rose – Prepeliţă, D. Stoica Wobay (’77 Săceanu)- Costea I, Dina (’60 Luţu), Tănasă (’39 Stoianof).
Trainer: Florin Cioroianu.

Our goal was scored by Dorel Stoica.

Politehnica Iasi - Universitatea Craiova 2-1

Universitatea Craiova lost the second match of this season.

Universitatea: Bornescu - Ciucă, Stoica, Mitchell - Dănănae, Prepeliţă, Gărgălie (’50 Dina), Rose - Costea, Baird (’75 Stoianof), Wobay (’88 Velcovici).
Trainer: Florin Cioroianu

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.

Universitatea Craiova - Farul Constanta 4-0

Universitatea Craiova made a great match yesterday. When you win with 4-0 there is nothing which remains to say.

15.000 fans come to "Ion Oblemenco" stadium to see the show. Because Universitatea Craiova made a show in front of them.

In the 30th minute, Dorel Stoica had a powerfull shoot from a free kick at 40 m by the goal of Farul Constanta. The Farul's goalkeeper returned the ball in the field and Florin Costea scored for 1-0. 7 minutes later Wobay and Costea created a good opportunity for Tanasa who made 2-0. After 2 minutes Prepelita pased for Joshua Rose who put Tanasa alone in the front of the goal. Craiova's striker did not miss and the score became 3-0.

In the second half of the game, Wobay was the one who gave another assist for Tanasa. And the hattrick was succeded.
Goal scorers: Costea ’33, Tănasă ’40, ’42, ’76

Universitatea: Bornescu – Ciucă, Stoica, Mitchel – Dănănae, Prepeliţă (’72 Dina), Gărgălie, Rose – Wobay, Tănasă (’77 Săceanu), Costea (’68 Stoianof).

Trainer: Florin Cioroianu.

You can see a short resumee of this game here:

Olteniada

A new hip-hop band from Craiova made a song dedicated to Oltenia region. This is a part of Romania which lives to support Universitatea Craiova. Without using demanding words, Universitatea Craiova is a religion for this part from Romania.This new band is called C.I.A. which stands for Craiova Independent Artists, and the song is Olteniada.

I can give you all the lyrics of it, but unfortunately they are all in Romanian language:

C.I.A. - Olteniada feat. Mutu, MCA & Dj Hash

Ca vorbim de Tudor Gheorghe, Balaci sau Amza Pelea
Rashid, Byga, Mutu, Phila, MCA sau Alex Velea
Simtim la fel, gandim la fel, traim la fel
Avem acelasi sange, acelasi vis, acelasi tel
Noi am deschis un drum interzis pana acum
Nu iese fum fara foc da' nici foc fara fum
Aveti in fata o noua generatie, in strada pentru natie
Un nou punct de atractie
Monden, nu, in nici un caz, aici nu cer
Sa se mute Prada , Richmond sau Dior in cartier
Nu cer masini, le avem deja pe toate aici
De la Dacii ruginite pana la Bmw seria 5
“Dolla dolla million”, asta vrem sa avem
S-aruncam industria muzicala in aer cu tot cu sistem
Cu tot cu CNA, cu toate curvele din presa
Atentie copii puteti gasi olteni pe piesa

Noi ne pastram credinta in inimi langa Stiinta
Si sangele fierbinte din Lapus in Craiovita
Iesim din cartiere in zgomot de mortiere
Mirosu’ de asfalt si bassu’ in portiere
Perfectu’ e prea simplu aici, deci ne bucuram de defecte
Suntem deja prea multi chiar daca nimeni nu ne vede
C.I.A. , Mutu , Viollent si MCA
C-avem ce arata si raspundem ca RCA
De aici in 10 ani vom fi tot aici nu pentru bani
Nici pentru fani, nici pentru pizde, ca le avem deja
Si daca muzica ne facem sa spunem ce simtim
O sa cantam si fara bani, asta conteaza prea putin
Dar e nevoie si de asta intelege
Ca fara apreciere nu poti face sa se lege
Macar doua cuvinte, ce sufletul le simte
Daca eu iti dau ce simt sa cumpere cine simte !

N-am nimic cu Bucurestiu', acolo se-ntampla tot
Insa, o singura chestie nu halesc deloc
Suferinte gen "*****, noi suntem din capitala"
Cand toti va trageti din neamuri de undeva din tara
Intrebati-va parintii, sigur nu se dezic
Asta daca nu le-a fost ciobanu' Bucur strabunic
Si chiar si-asa, hai sa dam mana cu mana
Desi, tot parca seaman-a dinastie de stana
Hoo, ma ca glumeam, stiu ca acum zambesti
Da' mai patimasi si patrioti ca noi n-o sa gasesti
Tot ce-auzi facem cu drag si zau ca are haz
Si ne e lejer, c-o durere maxima-n praz
Aici chiar e hip-hop, asculta, nu deliram
Fara influentze grave, mereu ne reinventam
Pana si judetu' e element indiscutabil
Cu mii de DJ inmatriculati in carosabil !

Suntem olteni adica suntem multi
Osteni gata sa mute munti, gusteri sar sprinteni da-s mult prea muti
S-ar tripa dar cad pe rand pierduti
Las' ca-s demult tinuti in cuib multi pe baricade dati disparuti
Scuip ascuns printre betoane intr-o metropola ce sare
Din tipare, muzica sacra ce cade greu in timpane
Spui ca sunt taran priveste in dotare
Am bate, seceri, coase, baieti cu priviri brutale
Sunt vremuri grele noi avem zile cu soare
Acelasi sange in vene vere provincie latina nemuritoare
Condusi la razboi, decimand zeci de armate
Vegheati de Mihai , Arghezi si vocea lui Tudor in spate
Deci lupta taras pe coate cu truda suporta forte brute
Dau pace din valcea pana in rovine oricarei redute
Dau gloante de avertisment fugi, du-te, fereste-te
O ardem ca la Craiova “gen” vrei sa ne opresti ? Opreste-te !

Hip-hopu' n-a murit, intre noi doar fie vorba
S-a mutat mai hacana, ia ghici unde? la Craiova
Febra Sudului contamineaza tara
Cu flow-uri ametitoare-n cascade ca Niagara
Nu seamana a nimic, suna putin altfel
Orice rima, orice beat, suna putin altfel
Pentru ca suntem aparte, insa ne vezi peste tot
Si ne recunosti usor, dupa vorba, dupa port
Din zeci de mii de inimi ce tuna pe Oblemenco
Venim in pas allegro mai spontani ca trupa Deko
Zburdam pe orice tempo, aroma a la Prazilia
Cu Proxima Evita, ViolLent, ori La Familia
Avem oltencele fiebinti ca zilele lungi ale verii
Noptile nebune-cu picaturile reci ale berii
Iti luam ceasu' de la mana, nu vezi nimic inapoi
Ca de-acum ora exacta se da numai la noi !

Universitatea Craiova - FC Caracal 3-0

Ştiinţa presented their players yesterday on “Ion Oblemenco” stadium. The match for presentation was played against FC Caracal (Second League team). The final score was 3-0 and it leave me speachless. Craiova used the new ADIDAS T-shirts which will be the equipment provider for the year 2007-2008. It seems it bring us good luck.
Universitatea Craiova - FC Caracal 3-0
Goal scores: Stoica ‘5, Wobay ’53, Baird ’67.

Universitatea: Bornescu ( ’62 Banica) – Ciuca, Stoica, Mitchell (’70 Curteanu) – Dananae (’55 Dilevski), Prepelita (’62 Lutu) Gargalie (’55 Saceanu), Rose (’68 Velcovici) – Wobay (’63 Stoianof), Tanasa (’74 I Gaman), Costea (’58 Baird).

Trainer: Florin Cioroianu.

Next Sunday begins the Romanian football Championship. Our first game is against Farul Constanta.

Copa America

These days in South America was played Copa America. A competition which gather the most important American national football teams. As everybody wanted to in the final game played Argentina versus Brazil. The score was 3-0 for "Cariocas" but this result doesn't matter to much for us. We have two girls who represent those both countries. One of them is Sabrina Sabrok, the front girl of a rock band from Argentina.

And the other one is a Brazil's fan babe. They both have something to show. But you are the only one who decide which one fits better with your taste.

Havana Beach

Constanta, Romania. On the Black See beach there is a place dedicated for Cuba. It is called Havana beach.Mamaia is a holiday town which is prepared for the tourists who like the sun and the salt water. If you arrive in Romania, I sugest you to visit it.

There are a lot of hotels, night clubs, disco bars and more than all open air restaurants. You can eat almost everything from Romanian traditional kitchen to Italian, Turkish or even Greek food. If you go there, you will like the trip.

Standard Liege - Universitatea Craiova 0-2

Universitatea Craiova wonn in Andene a friendly game against Standard Liege. Our goals were scored by Prepeliţă ’15, Stoianof ’78.
Audience: 5.000

Standard: De Vriendt - Camozzato (’65 Dupre), Bonfim, Sarr, Mulemo - Walasiak (’81 Vito), Defour (’70 Toama), Papasarantis (’46 Fellaini), Witsel (’76 Dembele) - Mbokani (’46 De Camargo), Jovanovic (’65 Lukunku).

Trainer: Michel Preud’homme.
Universitatea: Bornescu - Ciucă, Stoica, Mitchell - Dănănae, Gărgălie (’62 Săceanu), Prepeliţă (’75 Gârlă), Rose (’80 Velcovici) - Dina (’40 Wobay), Costea ('69 Stoianof), Baird (’89 Pârvu).
Trainer: Florin Cioroianu.
Yellow cards: Defour / Baird, Mitchell, Gârlă.
Red card: Dănănae ’81.

Demolished in Andenne
Strapping men, these Roumanians Standard broke the teeth, yesterday on the ground of Andenne, a team of Craoiva, in training course in... Latvia, of an excellent level. The inhabitants of Liège ran after the score, in vain... The Standard wiped, yesterday evening with Andenne, its first defeat in its preparation campaign, by undergoing the law of the Romanian team of Universitatea Craiova (0-2). The players inhabitant of Liège had however begun the debates in an ideal way, by sparing of entry two superb occasions. On a flight of Walasiak initially, diverted by Bornescu, consecutive with a handing-over of Mbokani and a center of Marcos, on a resumption of the head of Mbokani then, which was assembled higher than the Romanian defenders on a blow of corner of Papassarantis. In the tread, Prerelita took Dante speed to mislead De Vriendt. A catastrophic scenario...
"Especially vis-a-vis to Roumanians afterwards", Michel Preud'homme will say. "With the Italian teams, the Romanian formations are most difficult to operate when they carry out to the score. Remarkably organized, they do not leave any more and do not take any more the least risk... " In fact, the Standard, in spite of creditable efforts, never found the solution with its problems. Its players showed themselves too awkward in the last gesture, multiplaint the losses of ball. It is only at the end of the part that they arrived to repointer the end of the nose, thanks to Camargo twice, on a center of Villano, then a blow of corner of Toama, before Dante and Marcos do not loupent little the objective. Craiova then carried out 0-2, on a goal registered by Stoianof, of a sending dispatched in the ceiling of the cage of Vriendt. "One tried to make the play, to play forwards, offensively, like always, but we fell on a well oiled team, of a very good level, face to which it was difficult to make jump the bolt", still Michel Preud'homme released. "the result disappoints me, but it is an adversary which I had wished to defy because I knew that the task would be difficult. It is more interesting, because that allows corrections... "

Boikot - Hasta Siempre Commandante

The same song, a new band.

Aprendimos a quererte
desde la historica altura
donde el sol de tu bravura
le puso cerco a la muerte.

Aqui se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia
de tu querida presencia,
comandante Che Guevara.

Tu mano gloriosa y fuerte
sobre la historia dispara,
cuando todo Santa Clara
se despierta para verte.

Aqui ...

Vienes quemando la brisa
con soles de primavera
para plantar la bandera
con la luz de tu sonrisa.

Aqui ...

Tu amor revolucionario
te conduce a nueva empresa,
donde esperan la firmeza
de tu brazo libertario.

Aqui ...

Seguiremos adelante
como junto a ti seguimos
y con Fidel te decimos:
"Hasta siempre, Comandante!"

Aqui ...

Universitatea Craiova - Levski Sofia 0-4

Universitatea Craiova lost one more game in Austria, this time against Levski Sofia. Florin Cioroianu used the foolowing team:
Bornescu - Ciucă, Stoica (Garla 40'), Mitchell - Dănănae (Dilevski 77'), Gărgălie, Săceanu (Lutu 80'), Rose (Velcovici 77') - Dina (Stoianof 45'), Wobay (Parvu 65'), Baird (Costea 45')
The goals were scored by Domovşiski ('5, 70'), Iovov ('35), Baltanov ('88)

On 14th Of July we will meet Standard Liege.

Universitatea Craiova - Wisla Krakow 0-2

Universitatea Craiova met yesterday Wisla Krakow in a friendly match played in Austria at Grosspetersdorfva. The result of the game was 2-0 for the team from Poland because of the goals scored by Kmiecik ’37, Paulista ’70 (panalty kick).

Universiatea Craiova:
Bornescu - Ciucă, Stoica, Mitchell (’18 Curteanu) - Dănănae (’69 Pârvu), Gărgălie (’85 Bărboianu), Prepeliţă (’20 Dina), Rose (’81 Velcovici) - Tănasă (’56 Gârlă), Baird (’75 Stoianof)
Wobay (‘81 I. Găman)

Wisla Kracow:
Cebanu (’46 Bieniek) - Kokoszka, Glowacki(’46 Kubowicz), Dudka, Markovic - Kosowski (’46 Mauro), Golos (’60 Cantoro), Burns, Cwielong (’46 Magiera) - Kmiecik (’68 Brozek), Paulista

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.