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 .

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 - Victoria Branesti 1-1

Universitatea Craiova played another game at home. It was not such a bad game but, unfortunately, Victoria Branesti had the only one chance to score when Alin Buleica tried to pass a ball in defense. The striker from Branesti intercepeted and scored in Silviu Lung's goal. That was in the 30th minute of the game.

All the rest of the game Craiova tried hard to get back in the game and finally, in the 77th minute of the match, scored by Mihai Costea after an assist of Andrei Prepelita. That was the game and the final result: 1-1, a draw which doesn't help anyone.

Our team: 21.Silviu Lung-jr - 86.Buleica, 4.Zoro, 5.D.Stoica, 11.W.Lopez - 30.Prepelita, 13.Wendel, 8.Ologu ('65 28.Gangioveanu) - 9.M.Costea, 20.Subotic ('65 19.Stoianof), 10.F.Costea

Universitatea Craiova - Gloria Bistrita II 4-0

Universitatea Craiova played against the second team of Gloria Bistrita a match for 1/16 final of Romanian Football Cup. It was an easy game and nobody thought about who will win it. In the 4th minute of the game Florin Costea scored for 1-0. In the 12th minute of the game V. Gaman did an imprudence and was red carded. Even so, Craiova won with 4-0 thanks to another 2 goals scored by Mihai Costea and one more scored by Florin Costea. It was the first game for Florin Costea as captain of Universitatea Craiova and the first of Eugean Neagoe as a trainer of Craiova after Daniel Mogosanu was dismissed.

Our team: 21. Lung - 32. Badoi, 7. Gaman, 4. Mitchell, 27.Rose - 77. Wobay, 13. Dilevski, 33. Trica (2. Barboianu '56), 25. Firtulescu (3. Barb '15) - 9. Mihai Costea, 10. Florin Costea (11. V. Badea '66)

For Craiova scored: Fl. Costea ('4, '43) and M. Costea ('26, '77).

Rapid Bucharest - Universitatea Craiova 0-3

A crazy match of Universitatea against Rapid Bucharest. The score speaks about what happened in the field.

Craiova used the following players: Bornescu - Dănănae, Găman, D. Stoica, Rose - Prepeliţă, Dilevski ('68 Barboianu), Şoavă - Wobay, Njock ('72 M.Costea), Fl. Costea

Universitatea Craiova - Dinamo Bucharest 2-0

The brothers are striking again. Florin and Mihai Costea scored one more time for Universitatea Craiova and we wonn the game of the year. Craiova lives all the year for the game against Dinamo. There is a big rivality between these two teams. Universitatea Craiova did a perfect match and now is on the 5th place in the table.

Our team: 

Bornescu – Dănănae, V. Găman, D. Stoica, Rose – Wobay, Prepeliţă, Dilevski (’59 Bărboianu), Şoavă – Fl Costea (’90 R. Barbu), M. Costea (’84 Gângioveanu)

Our team's fans:

Universitatea Craiova - CFR Cluj-Napoca 4-1

Universitatea Craiova did a perfect match today. A victory with such a score tells everything about the game. Do not forget the fact that CFR Cluj is the champion of Romania.

Our team: Bornescu - Dănănae, Găman, Stoica, Rose - Prepeliţă, Dilevski('77 Barboianu), Şoavă - Wobay('73 Gangioveanu) - M. Costea('82 Dina), Fl. Costea

The goals were scored by Fl. Costea('1 and '67), Stoica('6) and M. Costea('70)

Farul Constanta - Universitatea Craiova 0-3

Universitatea Craiova did a perfect game today. This is a score which tells almost everything about our team's force. Our goals were scored by Costea brothers. Florin Costea scored twice (18' and 75') and Mihai Costea once (70'). 

Our team was:

Bornescu - Dănănae, Găman, Stoica, Şoavă - Wobay, Prepeliţă, Dilevski (59' Barboianu), Rose (88' Ologu) - F.Costea (83' Gangioveanu), M.Costea