Dinamo Bucharest
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End of season round-up
I’ve been away from Romania for nearly 3 years. As the 2021-22 season draws to a close, let’s see what’s changed since I left. Oh, not much. Continue reading
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Talk about the passion
Who says nobody cares any more in Romanian football? Me, I say that, usually. And the people I talk to about it tend to agree, unhampered by their having no concrete existence outside my head. But last weekend saw tension, passion and confrontation on and off the pitch at different ends of the pyramid. Warning:… Continue reading
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The Cup runneth over
The magic of the cup, eh? Last midweek saw 16 teams face off to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Cupa României, and it was rather a mixed bag of weirdness. Although Rapid’s interest in the competition was extinguished in the last round, I’ll be keeping an eye on the next one. Here’s why: Continue reading
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90stalgia (part 2)
28 January 1990: a friendly match at Olympique Marseille. The pre-match picture shows something unfamiliar: a national team with a sponsor’s name across the front of their shirts. Stranger still, this is the national team of an Eastern Bloc country. Something is changing… Brief résumé: Romania have qualified for a World Cup for the first… Continue reading
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90stalgia (part 1)
These things elicit a certain reaction from me, which I cannot control: Chrissy Waddle’s mullet; Platty’s last-gasp volley against Belgium; the ball ballooning off Paul Parker’s back and over Shilton’s head into the net; and, especially, Gary Lineker gesturing to the bench to “have a word”. And if you spent a lifetime striving to compose… Continue reading
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Go fourth!
Expunge from your mind anything you’ve read which claims that the top tier is worth bothering with (even my more than adequate post from the other day). The division to watch this season is going to be Liga 4 București. Today the capital’s municipal football association (AMFB) announced the teams that will make up, at least on paper,… Continue reading
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Emergency update!
Here is RomaniaBalls’ emergency ordinance, being pushed through at an unreasonable hour of Super Saturday morning. Gigi is the main story – as so often… Yesterday FCSB owner Gigi Becali announced that he has combed the League’s full regulations for the competition, with a lawyer, and found that if his team and Viitorul finish level on… Continue reading
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Super Saturday awaits
So… it all comes down to a triple-header to decide who wins the Romanian league championship 2016-17, and who gets the second Champions League qualifier spot. After the top three all won their away games last weekend, the final three fixtures of the Liga 1 play-off will all kick off at 8pm this Saturday evening. Continue reading
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Squeaky bums
NEWS TICKER: there was a big football match the other night at the National Stadium. Continue reading
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Hidden rugby
Yesterday lunchtime I went down to Dinamo Stadium to buy tickets for the big Dinamo-FCSB football match on Monday night. On the way I popped my head in to the Florea Dumitrache Stadium, which is tucked away at the back of the Dinamo sporting complex and the regular home ground of Dinamo’s B-team. The club’s senior men’s… Continue reading
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