FC Universitatea 1948

As you might know, Universitatea Craiova was ejected from Romanian football by the ex-president of FRF (Romanian Football Federation) - Mircea Sandu. He was unsatisfied by disobedience of our club regarding his corruption policy and decided by himself to erase our team from Romanian football. More than that,  after 2 years, he contacted the most important Romanian political party and they founded a new team with the same colors and symbols pretending they are the real Universitatea Craiova. 

Because of this our team was forced to change its name in FC U 1948 Craiova, a name that explicitly shows we have the continuity of the old Universitatea Craiova. After all these years of fighting in justice and football fields in the same time FC U 1948 was denied to play on our stadium. Since 2011 we are forced to find new stadiums or football fields in order to remain a football team. Today March 26th 2018 it was the first time our players got access on Ion Oblemenco stadium, our home. It was very hard to get inside, but our players still managed to do it. Our fight still continues and it will never end!

Nicolae Tilihoi Is Dead

God bless him! Nicolae Tilihoi was one of the most representative football players of Universitatea Craiova. He was the most important defender of our team beside Costica Stefanescu being the central defender of Craiova Maxima - the best team we ever had. He was a big champion and a great character. He had a big heart and was one of the most loved football players in Craiova.

After a long fight against cancer he dead on 25th of March 2018. His casket was placed today in a hall of "Ion Oblemeco" stadium where it was visited by his friends, the 2 football teams from Craiova and Romanian National Football team. Rest In Peace, Nicolae Tilihoi! 

FC U Craiova Wins In Court

When FRF (Romanian Football Federation) and LPF (Romanian Football League) decided to abusive erase FC U Craiova from Romanian football they motivated their decision with 2 arguments:

- an economical division made prior this juridical decision - when the economical company which administrated the football club was divided in 2 new companies

- a trial between FC U Craiova and FRF opened by our football team.

Right after this decision FC U Craiova demonstrated in court they didn't sue FRF. It was just a trial based on economical issues between FC U Craiova and Victor Piturca (former coach of our club). This decision is final and nobody can deny it.

Yesterday FC Universitatea got a final decision in court: the division was legal and nobody can argue with it. This means they used two wrong motivations used by the ones who decided FC U Craiova will no longer be a part of Romanian football.

Now let's see the consequences.

What Is The Name Of... ?

People are different. It is very hard to find 2 men with the same life philosophy. This is way there are groups and clubs were people who feel the same join to reach a common goal. One of these clubs is Universitatea Craiova. The real one, not the fake one which tries to not be ashamed nowadays. Gica Craioveanu was a great football player. A very important person in early 90's for our club. He moved in Spain when sold by our team and had a nice career for Real Sociedad San Sebastian, Villareal and Getafe. On June 20th 2013 he came back in Craiova being determined to help Universitatea Craiova again. He declared: "There is no other Universitatea Craiova. It can not be another club with this name because we have the glory and the fans and we made history for this team."

After 7 days the mayor of Craiova, Lia Olguta Vasilescu, declares: "We will make another team because Adrian Mititelu has no more money. It will be a new team as a mix between the sport club, city hall of Craiova and a businessman who loves Universitatea Craiova".

She did what she said and Gica Craioveanu joined this new team. The only problem is he said this new team called CSU Craiova is actually the original football team, the one he used to play when he mad history for Universitatea Craiova. This new club had a 3 years history. Craioveanu was their image director being one of the biggest fans of them. 

After these 3 years the truth came to surface. The investor of  CSU Craiova was exposed and arrested for corruption. The evidences show that Mihai Rotaru was guilty for a €60 million fraud. After this event his football team went down in the table, they sold the most representative football players and now are trying to resist in Romanian first football league. 2 weeks ago, Gica Craioveanu declared again: "I don't trust anymore the new project of CSU Craiova. It is not what they promised and I don't think they represent Craiova anymore."

There is only one question now: "WHAT IS THE NAME OF SUCH A PERSON ?" How do you call someone how jumps from a boat to another depending of his interests ?

Florin Prunea

Florin Prunea was one of the football players who made the biggest success of Romanian football - quarter of finals at World Cup USA 1994. He and Bogdan Stelea were the best Romanian goalkeepers at a time. 

He was born August 8th 1968 in Bucharest and used to play for Dinamo Bucharest, "U" Cluj-Napoca and Universitatea Craiova. In 1991 he won the title of Champion of Romania and the Romanian Cup for Universitatea Craiova. 

Now, after a short career in Romanian Football Federation, he is the president of CSU Iasi. Nicolo Napoli - Stiinta's former trainer - works in the same club.

Two days ago, Florin Prunea made this statement in a press conference: "People who used to work in football know: most of FRF (Romanian Football Federation) actions in court will be lost. If Adrian Mititelu will win the lawsuit against federation, FRF will be demolished. The president of the Romanian Football Federation comes from a gray world. They are not coming from sport's world. They really hate the players from Romanian national football team. They are coming from corporate system, they are former undercover officers who, I think, don't belong in world of sports."

Julius Gibrilla Wobay

One of the most important football players in recent history of Universitatea Craiova was Julius Wobay. Originated in Sierra Leone, he signed for our team when he was 22 years old and came from NEA Salamina - Cyprus. He was an offensive left midfielder reminding of Zoltan Crisan for Stiinta fans.

Last time he played for Neftchi Baku. But now, in age of 31, Ubi(his Romanian nickname) is a free agent. The most important point of his career was when he used to play for Universitatea Craiova and his transfermarkt market value was about € 1,1 million. In the video below you can see why all Stiinta's supporters loved Julius Wobay. 

JULIUS WOBAY MULTUMIM!
Posted by Vlad Bojinescu on Wednesday, February 25, 2015

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 .

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.

Ektro - Stiinta suntem noi

Despite a long list of troubles the fans of Universitatea Craiova don't give up. This was their last move but they intend to rise again.

 I hope you will like it. Enjoy !

Give A Hand For Universitatea Craiova !

Our team is in coma. There is no hope to save it. The only thing we can do is trying. Which is if you know someone who lives in Craiova, Romania please, send that person to our protest. We can do a lot or we can not do a thing but we have to try. This is, maybe, last time we hear about Universitatea Craiova, that beautiful team who was 30 years ago the princess of Europe. Now this team is broke, old and sick. You don't need to give your blood. Just get out of your house next Saturday 15:00 o'clock and be present in front of "Ion Oblemenco" Stadium. Let's hope there will be enough people to keep Stiinta alive. 

Petrodollars for Craiova

A businessman from Dubai wants to donate a significant amount of money to Independent Supporters Association of FC Universitatea Craiova. This association will finance our team until the end of the championship. The information was made ​​public by website www.stiridesport.ro

The white-blue team could receive "petrodollars" being just one step before bankruptcy. Our players are unpaid for seven months. Tomorrow, they will leave Craiova for Cisnădie. There is a possibility to play the rest of the games in this location until the new staium of Craiova will be built.

According www.fcuniversitatea.ro, the official Stiinta's website, on February 22nd Universitatea Craiova will play a friendly match against Rapid Bucharest. Every fan has to be present for this game.

Season Preparations Started

Universitatea Craiova started the pre-season training. Our team will do 2 weeks of physical training. After this there is a schedule for several friendly games.

The fans did not lost their time as well. They had Supporter's Party Show in January and started a crowd funding campaign. This campaign is supposed to finish on March the 1st 2014. Let 's hope it will be a succesfull initiative.

Universitatea Craiova's Fans Party

Universitatea Craiova's fans organize today the first party in 2014. This event is supposed to be great having as guests our team footballers, the coach Nicoo Napoli and the new club's manager Marian Condescu. 

Between our guests it will be included "Ektro", one of the most beloved artists of the new wave of Romanian's hip-hop music. He will do a live performance singing his well-known tracks dedicated to Universitatea Craiova. There will be prizes awarded and the fans may take advantage of the opportunity to purchase promotional materials related to our football team. 

This party promises to be a success and will be broadcasted in the Romanian media and online as well. Do not miss your opportunity to demonstrate the attachment for Nicolo Napoli. All the details of this party can be found following this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1434627330094662/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

O Craiovano Wants To Visit Craiova

João Vítor Roberge, journalism student at the Santa Catarina Federal University (UFSC), in Florianópolis, Brazil since March 2012. He is a member of the UFSC Sports Radiojournalism Center, and there he participates on two radio shows: "Ponto de Encontro" and "Grande Jornada Esportiva" broadcasted by Rádio Ponto UFSC. He likes the most unknown things about football.

He used to watch OFC Champions League and he supported Slovenia at World Cup 2010. There are many European teams he follows like: Newcastle in England, Lyon in France, Villarreal in Spain, Marítimo in Portugal, Fiorentina in Italy, Twente in Netherlands or Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany.

"I think determination is a really valuable quality, and I believe they may conquer wins against hard opponents anywhere. I'm a Vasco da Gama and Portuguesa supporter. Juninho Pernambucano is my idol since I was 6. I play both FIFA and PES, and Universitatea Craiova is in my heart and in my table football teams" says João Vítor. 

Despite a distance of 11,100 Km between Brazil and Craiova João Vítor really appreciate our football team. He became a true fan of Universitatea Craiova and wants to visit Craiova someday. Let's hope he will get the chance to see a match of Universitatea Craiova played on "Ion Oblemenco" Stadium.

You may read the Portuguese language version of this articol here: http://craiovano.wordpress.com/quem/

If you would like to support João Vítor's project and send some cash, feel free to use our paypal account. This will probaly be the longest travel for a football game ever. Maybe "Guiness World of Records" will take his voyage into account.

We Have Marketing

Universitatea Craiova's fans started a fund rising last month. As a consequence of this campaign we gave $ 1000 to our football players on November 27th.

The money were well spend because these were the last results of our team:

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - CSM Ramnicu Valcea 1-0

FC Mioveni - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 2-1

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - Gloria Bistrita 1-0

UTA Arad - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 1-1

Metalul Resita - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 1-0

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - ASA Targu Mures 0-0

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - Olimpia Satu-Mare 1-1

CSU - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 0-0

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - Minerul Motru 2-0

Primă Craiova by fanatikro

Now all the fans decided to produce a limited edition of supporting scarf. The image bellow is the model and the text means "We are Stiinta". Stiinta is the nick name of Universitatea Craiova. It means "Science" and it was the name of this football team before 1964. You may order this kind of scarf using this link: www.pentrustiinta.ro/esarfe I hope you will enjoy it. Forza Stiinta !

Happy Birthday Stepahane Acka !

Today is the 23rd aniversary of Stepahne Acka. He is one of the most important defenders in our team. 

Acka was born on 11th of October 1990 in Côte d'Ivoire. In the last 3 years he used to play in the 4th Italian football league for Legnano Salus and Beluno. He signed for Universitatea Craiova this summer and became one of our fans favorite players. 

Let's wish him "Happy Birthday!" and a victory in the next game which will be played tomorrow  starting with 3 p.m. local time against CSM Ramnicu-Valcea.

Back In Business

Universitatea Craiova came back in the football field. We are now playing in Romanian's second football league and we are doing this well.

It happened a lot, but the most important is this: our team is on the 3rd place in the table and we really hope to be in the first league starting with 2014. Nicolo Napoli is our team's coach again. There are many players who came back to help our team - Madalin Ciuca, Robert Saceanu, Michael Baird. But our biggest wish is to see Romanian Football Federation 's chief - Mircea Sandu - in prison. There were 2 years of pain and sacrifices for 2 million fans of this important Romanian football team. Someone must pay for this abuse!

These are the results of our team, until now:

Olimpia Satu-Mare - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 1-1

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - CSU 0-0

Minerul Motru - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 0-1

UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA - FC Olt Slatina 2-0

FC Bihor Oradea - UNIVERSITATEA CRAIOVA 1-1

Universitatea Craiova's fans in London

It's been almost 2 years since Universitatea Craiova was abusively erased form Romanian football's history.  This legendary team has the most passionate fans in Romania.

They recently protested in London at the football game Chelsea FC - Steaua Bucharest asking their team to be let to play again.

The protests did not end here. Today a fan climbed a light pile of  "Ion Oblemenco" stadium asking the same thing. Romanian football is not the same without Universitatea Craiova.

Brotherhood Napoli Craiova

Universitatea Craiova and SSC Napoli are 2 legendary football teams. They supported each other and they have almost the same history. The fans of these 2 football teams have common feelings and the same colors to support.

Craiova is the warmest place in Romania. The fans of this Universitatea have the same passion like Napoli's. Both cities are old and carrying a great history. The brotherhood between these teams started in 1979 when Gianfranco Menegalli, the referee of the UEFA cup match  U Craiova - Leeds United 2-0 declared: "In Craiova is same as in Naples". This phrase described the passion of the fans and the atmosphere in the stadium.

In October 2010, at a game played in Romania, Steaua Bucharest - Napoli 3-3, there were a lor of fans of universitatea Craiova supporting the Italian team. This gesture was granted by thanks in Napoli's fans forum. After 3 days, the ultras of Universitatea Craiova sang and gave a big applause for Napoli's result against Steaua.

The Mafia in Romanian footbal canceled Universitatea Craiova in 2011. The team was just erased in any competition and from the Romanian football history. Universitatea Craiova - the first Romanian football team who played a semifinal of an European Cup was not mentioned in official Romanian Federation documents concerning the 2012 UEFA Cup final - Atheltic Bilbao - Atletico Madrid 0-3 - played in Bucharest.

Today Universitatea Craiova's fans are looking for justice trying to bring back their team in football. Napoli's supporters showed their support in a game played in Serie A, Napoli-Lazio, 26th of September 2012. This means friendship. Forza Napoli ! Justice for Craiova !

Back In Business

Universitatea Craiova was canceled by Romanian Football Federation in 2011. There are almost 2 year since Craiova has no football at all. There are more than 200.000 people forced by this federation to stay without a football team.

Starting with 2013 Craiova's municipality decided to comeback in Romanian second football league. It is a big project of rebuilding the old "Ion Oblemenco" stadium. We will comeback with news soon.