FC Caracal - Universitatea Craiova 0-3

Universitatea Craiova made the last test before starting the second part of Liga I. The game was a real success even the opponent was a third league football team.
Our team was: Bornescu(S. Lung-jr 45', Merlier 76') - Dananae, D. Stoica, Mitchell (Gaman 60'), Rose (Barboianu 60') - Prepelita (Ologu 60'), Dilevski (R. Barbu 60'), Soava(Gangioveanu 45') - Wobay (M. Costea 45'), Dina(Tanasa 45'), Fl. Costea (Gogosoiu 60')For our team the scorers were: Wobay (41') and Stoica (45' and 57')-both from penalty kick.

Romania - Croatia 1-2

Florin Costea was part of Romanian national football team in this friendly game. He is one of the most important players from Universitatea Craiova.

Universitatea Craiova - Odra Wodzislaw 0-0

Universitatea: Bornescu (’46 Merlier) - Dănănae, Stoica, Mitchell (’71 Nicolae), Rose (’71 Giurcă) - Prepeliţă (’60 I. Popescu), Dilevski, Şoavă (’55 Gogoşoiu) - Wobay (’71 Firţulescu) - Tănasă, Crăciun (’46 Ologu)

Botev Plovdiv - Universitatea Craiova 1-1

Universitatea: Lung (’46 Merlier) – Bărboianu, Găman (’46 I. Popescu), Stoica (’75 Ologu), Rose (’46 Mitchell) – Prepeliţă (’65 Barbu), Dilevski (’46 Gângioveanu), Şoavă (’46 Dănănae) – Wobay (’65 Gogoşoiu) – Dina (’46 Tănasă), Fl. Costea ( ’46 M. Costea; ’58 Crăciun)

Universitatea Craiova - Amkar Perm 0-2

Our team:
1st half: Bornescu - Dănănae, D. Stoica, Mitchell, Rose - Prepeliţă, Dilevski, Şoavă - Wobay, C. Tănasă, Fl. Costea('13 Gangioveanu)2nd half: S. Lung jr. - Dănănae('63 Barboianu), V. Găman, D. Stoica, Rose('75 Barbu) - Prepeliţă('82 I. Popescu), Şoavă, Gîngioveanu('75 Gogosoiu) - M. Costea, C. Tănasă('63 Craciun), Dina

Superbowl XLIII

Yesterday we saw the most beautiul Superbowl game ever. 

Pittsburg Steelers won the 6th Superbowl in their history. They succeded this performance against Arizona Cardinals (27-23) and the MVP of the game was Sanantonio Holmes.

Universitatea Craiova - Sturm Graz 2-1

The third game in the Turkish trainment of Universitatea Craiova was played against Sturm Graz. This team is placed now on the 3rd position in the table of football championship from Austria.
The team: Bornescu ('58 S. Lung) - Bărboianu ('58 Dananae), V. Găman ('58 R. Barbu), D. Stoica, Rose - Prepeliţă, Dilevski, Şoavă - M. Costea ('58 Dina), Tănasă('78 I. Popescu), Fl. Costea ('78 Craciun)
For our team scored Fl. Costea('50) and Stoica('53).

Universitatea Craiova - Arka Gdynia 1 - 1

The second game in this training tourament was played by our team against the Polish club Arka Gdyna. We did a good match and the final result was a draw. Universitatea Craiova used these players for this game:1st half: Bornescu ('34 S. Lung jr) – Dănănae, V. Găman, D. Stoica, Rose – Prepeliţă, Dilevski, Şoavă – M. Costea, Tănasă, Gîngioveanu

2nd half: S. Lung jr. ('60 Merlier) - Bărboianu, R. Barbu, D. Stoica, Rose - Prepeliţă, Dilevski ('70 I. Popescu), Şoavă - Dina, M. Costea ('60 Craciun), Gîngioveanu ('70 Ologu)

The player who scored for Craiova was Andrei Prepelita.

Universitatea Craiova - Sportfreunde Siegen 2-0

Universitatea Craiova started the preparations for the next season. The very first friendly game was against Sportfreunde Siegen, a team from the 5th German footbal league.In the first half, our team was: S. Lung jr. - Dănănae, V. Găman, D. Stoica, Rose - Prepeliţă, Dilevski, Şoavă - Dina, M. Costea, Fl. CosteaIn the second half, Nicolo Napoli used the following team: Merlier - Bărboianu, V. Găman, R. Barbu, Şoavă - Prepeliţă, I. Popescu, Ologu - M. Costea, Tănasă, Crăciun
Our goals were scored by Fl. Costea '42 and Ciprian Tănasă '73.

You'll Never Walk Alone

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When you walk through a storm hold your head up high,
And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of a storm is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone,
You'll never walk alone!

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:

2 more Aussies in our team

Universitatea Craiova get 2 new football players from Australia: Anthony Bryan Bran central defender and Filip Nechifor midfield player, both are 17 years old.
Anthony Bryan Bran born in Melbourne, on 02.03.1991, 1.97m height, comes from Victorian Institut of Sport from Melbourne.
Filip Nechifor, from Logan City, born in Timişoara, on 25.07.1991, 1,82m height.
Both of them have Romanian citizenship and they are represented by Dan Stănilescu. Universitatea Craiova has under contract another four football players coming from Australia: Josh Mitchell, Joshua Rose, Spase Dilevski and Michael Baird.

Universitatea Craiova's anthem

The lyrics:

Ţinem cu echipa noastră
Şi la bine, şi la greu,
O iubire alb-albastră
La Craiova e mereu,
O iubire alb-albastră
La Craiova e mereu,

Cîntaţi şi voi, cîntaţi cu noi
Să-i încurajăm într-una
Pe cei buni, şi întotdeauna
Alb-albaştrii să fie cei buni

Refren:
Hai, Craiova! Hai, studenţii!
Sîntem toţi cu voi pînă la sfîrşit,
Hai, Craiova! Hai, băieţii
Cu oltenii nu e de glumit.

Rîde soarele-n fereastră
Duce vîntul din Craiova,
O iubire alb-albastră
Spre Ardeal şi spre Moldova.
O iubire alb-albastră
Spre Ardeal şi spre Moldova.

Petre Deselnicu Arena

One of the most important former players of Universitatea Craiova gave today his name to a new training field. The most important training field of our team is called Petre Deselnicu. He was a player of Universitatea Craiova from 1960 to 1978. At this important moment from our team's life were people 500. They celebrated the memory of Petre Deselnicu. Our team made a demonstrative game followed by a dinner offered by Universitatea Craiova's owner. This will be a new stadium with 3000 places and lighting improvements. You can see some pictures bellow:
On the memorial plate is written: Petre Deselnicu (aka Tai-Pan) 23 September 1946 - 14 July 2003. 243 games in the Romanian first league, 12 goals. One time Champion Of Romania (1973-1974) and one time Cup Of Romania winner (1977). He was vice-president of Universitatea Craiova in1990/1991 and 2002/2003 seasons. Maestro of the Sports and Honor Citizen of Craiova municipality.

Euro 2008: Czech Republic - Turkey 2-3

A heart attack football game. The Czech Republic football players had 2-0 in the 70th minute of the game. The Turks came back and changed the game result.

Unbelivable

Italy - Romania preview

It is a movie from 1966. This film is called "The Dacians" and is about 2000 years ago ancestors of Romanians. They fought against Roman Empire 2 times 101-102 and 105-106 a. C. I will make a translation for you:
Roman soldier: "Open the gates! We will give your lives and your freedom."
Dacian soldier: "Who are you?"
Roman soldier: "The masters of The World."
Dacian soldier: "You will... If you kill us all."

Euro 2008 - day 5

Cristiano Ronaldo scored one goal and set up two more to put Portugal on the brink of the quarter-finals of UEFA EURO 2008 after a 3-1 win over Group A rivals Czech Republic at the Stade de Genève.Deco had given Portugal an eighth-minute lead after good work from Ronaldo before Libor Sionko's thumping header levelled proceedings. However, Ronaldo turned on the style in the second half, providing a sublime finish from the edge of the area in the 63rd minute before supplying Ricardo Quaresma to round things off in added time. The win, which leaves Portugal top of Group A with six points, will almost certainly ensure them a last-eight place but it leaves the Czechs with a nervous finish in their final group game against Turkey on Sunday.
Ardan Turan's deflected goal deep in injury time gave Turkey a win that revived their UEFA EURO 2008 hopes – but ended those of co-hosts Switzerland on St. Jakob-Park in Basel.

Switzerland, like Turkey beaten on the opening day, dealt better with a first-half Basel downpour and Hakan Yakin put them ahead just past the half-hour with a rain-assisted goal. Semih, however, was a prolific scorer from the bench for Fenerbahçe SK this season and 12 minutes after his half-time introduction he repeated the trick for his nation. It seemed a draw would be the outcome but Arda had other ideas and now Turkey can reach the quarter-finals by winning their final Group A game against the Czech Republic on Sunday. Switzerland will finish in fourth place.

Euro 2008 - day 4

A scintillating hat-trick from David Villa gave Spain a clear-cut 4-1 victory over Russia in their first outing at UEFA EURO 2008 and confirmed the immense power of the Valencia CF striker's partnership with Fernando Torres.In a high-quality Group D encounter on Stadion Tivoli Neu, Russia provided moments to indicate that Luis Aragonés's side may still be vulnerable at the back and gained consolation with Roman Pavlyuchenko's 86th-minute header. But Villa's second goal in particular was a stunning team move which may already be one of the goals of the tournament. Only the seventh player in finals history to score three in a game, the 26-year-old's treble was the first in a EURO since Patrick Kluivert's against Yugoslavia eight years ago. Villa then utterly stamped his class on the match, crossing for Xavi Hernández to volley and substitute Cesc Fàbregas to head in the fourth in stoppage time.Sweden's Olof Mellberg was delighted with a "well-deserved win" against Greece at Stadion Salzburg Wals-Siezenheim last night.The imposing defender admitted the 2-0 victory had not been pretty, as Greece frustrated the Swedes until Zlatan Ibrahimović's fantastic goal in the 67th minute. Petter Hansson wrapped up the Group D points with a somewhat less eye-catching, bundled effort five minutes later. "I thought we played really well from start to finish. We defended well and created quite a few chances, so I think it was a well-deserved win in the end," said Mellberg. "Greece also defended well. They tried to keep the ball and it was probably not the best game to watch, especially in the first half, but we did our job against a really strong side."

Amza Pellea

One of the most important actors of Romanian theater lived in Craiova and was the director of National Theater from Craiova.

This is the most important Romanian movie: "Mihai Viteazul". It is a film about one of the most important Romanian heroes called "Michael The Brave". He did it for barley a year while the papist west and the saracen east tried to pull the country apart from all sides and he was assassinated for it.

Movila wanted to get Mihai killed if possible on behalf of Bathory. I really doubt a peaceful resolution could have come through. Mihai's actions were flawless and if he hadn't been assassinated he would have kept the country for many more years.

Euro 2008 - Romania In

In the 3rd day of Euro 2008 Romania debuted against France. 0-0 was the score of this game. A hard work and the result we deserved.Romania made a promising start today, holding one of the tournament favourites, France, to a goalless draw at the Letzigrund Stadion in Zurich in Group C.

The Netherlands ended a 30-year wait for a victory over Italy in emphatic fashion as they began their Group C campaign with a rousing 3-0 victory against the world champions on Stade de Suisse from Berne.Ruud van Nistelrooy side-footed the Oranje ahead in the 26th minute, a lead doubled superbly by his Real Madrid CF colleague Wesley Sneijder soon after. Edwin van der Sar, becoming only the third player to appear in four UEFA European Championships, then kept the advantage intact, leaving Giovanni van Bronckhorst to complete the scoring with a headed third in the 79th minute. The Netherlands can now look forward with confidence to Friday's meeting with France, while Italy must pick themselves up from a worst-ever EURO defeat when they face Romania.