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.

Universitatea Craiova - Pandurii Targu Jiu 2-2

This was a difficult game for Universitatea Craiova. And this happened because our team had to play a game after only 48 hours from the last match. I have to remind you that Universitatea Craiova played against Ceahlaul Piatra-Neamt this Wednesday. FRF (Romanian Football Federation) commited an abuse again forcing our team to play in such a short time even this game could be played this Saturday or Sunday.

Anyhow, Craiova did a good match and scored twice but everytime the oponent team came back by 2 goals scored from free kicks by Vranjkovici. Our goals were scored by Michael Baird and Mircea Bornescu (the second goal scored penalty kicks by our goalkeeper).

Ceahlaul Piatra-Neamt - Universitatea Craiova 1-2

The 4th consecutive game wonn by Universitatea Craiova. The boys trained by Stefan Stoica are doing a very good performance. From 4 matches played outside of their own stadium, they wonn all the 4 games. This time we played once more against Ceahaul Piatra-Neamt, but this game was a 1/16 of Cup of Romania.
The goals Of Universitatea Craiova were scored by Formite (own goal) and Florin Parvu. The next game will be Friday 27th of October against Pandurii Tragu Jiu.

FC National - Universitatea Craiova 1-2

This was the third consecutive victory for Universitatea Craiova and it was a very good reason for us to be happy. The new trainer, Stefan Stoica, who came at our team three weeks ago made a good job here. He succeded to winn 3 games from 3. This performance put him in our hearts very quickly.Our goals in this game were scored by Michael Baird and Mihai Dina. You can see the goals below.

Now Universitatea Craiova is situated on the 13th position of the Romanian First League Table. I hope we can go higher.

Universitatea Craiova - Ceahlaul Piatra-Neamt 1-0

Universitatea Craiova succeded a new victory in the yesterday game. This time the opponent was a Moldavian team called Ceahlãul Piatra-Neamt. The only goal of the game was scored by Florin Costea (aka Costea I) and you can see it in the movie below.

As you can see, Universitatea Craiova has the same model of T-shirts like Argentina. Besides that no Argentinian football player made part of our team until now. But, never say never.

Argentina at World Cup 2006

Hernan Crespo scoring a goal

Argentina was one of the most important teams who played at this World Cup edition. Anyone on this planet recognize their T-shirts in white and blue strips. As a matter of fact this is why I feel this team closer of my heart. They are playing in the same colours as my favourite football team: Universitatea Craiova.

Diego Armando Maradona - El Pibe D'oro

The fans of Argentina are also very warm and very attached by their team. In this case we can say we can see high quality football when tis team are playing on a stadium.

Fans of Argentina on a German stadium

Let see what were the results of Argentina at this World Cup:

Argentina - Cote D'Ivore 2-1
Argentina - Serbia 0-0
Netherlands - Argentina 0-0
Argentina - Mexico (1-1) 2-1 after extra time
Germany - Argentina (1-1, 1-1) 4-2 after 11m kicks

Saudi Arabia (KSA) at World Cup 2006

Saudi Arabia was an exotic presence at this Wold Cup edition. Their football players made good games even they made only a draw. Their results were the following:Tunisia - Saudi Arabia 2-2
Saudi Arabia - Ukraine 0-4
Saudi Arabia - Spain 0-1
Let's see some photos with the fans of this unexpected presence in Germany 2006.

Unirea Urziceni - Universitatea Craiova 1-2

Universitatea Craiova wonn today its first game after a very long period. The new trainer brought a new style to the team and the impredictible happened. 2-1 after 2 goals scored by Robert Saceanu and Mircea Bornescu.

Robert Saceanu's goal.

Mircea Bornescu's (the goalkeper of Craiova) goal