Under the command of coach Ianis Zicu (41 years old), Metaloglobus, a formation with a budget of 400,000 euros, produced the miracle and promoted in the football superlig.
IMAD KASSAS has 63 years photo Capture Official Site Metaloglobus
Ranking on the 5th place in the second league play-off and taking advantage of the fact that Steaua has no right to promote, the Bucharest team had 2-1 at General by Poli Iași, 13th in the first division. After 1-1 in Iasi, Metaloglobus won the return from Clinceni in the evening, score 1-0, through the goal of Dragoș Huiban (35 years), from the 85th minute.
The factory team
Metaloglobus Bucharest has passed on the logo, as the year of the establishment, 1923, as quickly. In fact, the factory appeared in that, and the team of the company was 33 years later. Officially, Metaloglobus was established in 1956, according to Wikipedia, as the football team of the Metaloglobus factory, a powerful factory founded in 1923 by Austrian businessman Manfred Weiss. The factory developed more during the communist period and produced all kinds of steel and iron objects, as well as lanterns or bullets, starting with 1965 and players. After the 1989 Revolution, the factory began to have financial problems, reaching in 2000 to be bought by businessman Syrian Imad Kassas. In 2014, he had only 20 employees and was close to bankruptcy.
Kassas, graduate of medicine
Mohamad Imad Kassas (63 years old), the man behind Metaloglobus, was a political prisoner in the Assad regime, a businessman in the real estate area and a good friend with Gigi Becali (66 years). Of Syrian origin, Kassass was born on February 20, 1962 in Idlib, a city in the northwest of Syria, about 60 kilometers from Aleppo. He attended the courses of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Bucharest, which he graduated in 1998. Many years ago, he founded a family here, settling in Romania.
He was politically detained within Branch 255 of the Information Services of the Assad regime and persecuted by the Assad regime on charges of supporting and financing the Syrian revolution. At the same time, he is the co-founder and president of the Syrian community in Romania and the Syrian-Romanian Cultural Club.
In addition to the football team, Mohamad Imad Kassas is a businessman in real estate. Gigi Becali and Mohamad Imad Kassas have been known for a long time, before the Revolution, since the father of the Pipera landlord, Atanase, provides cheese and sheep for the Arab community in Bucharest.
Gigi Becali wanted to buy the club
In the past, FCSB’s owner wanted to buy Metaloglobus in the context in which Florin Talpan threatened him with 37 million euros for the use of the logo and the name Steaua: “If I take my name Steaua, there is no problem. I’ll stay in football. I’ll make another strategy. I buy a team from Liga 3 and transfer there players. I am friends with the owner of Metaloglobus and I talk about this team. Later the players will be borrowed at Steaua ”declares at that time Gigi Becali.
“Gigi called me and asked if he sells his team. I told him I didn’t sell it. It’s my work here for 10 years, I invested and I don’t want to give up the club. We have a beautiful preparation base. But the problem did not ask the team. I saw what Gigi Becali said on TV that he wanted the team, but I had already talk to him“, Said Mohamad Imad Kassas for Fanatik.
“Total victory! Metaloglobus! I am the son of the employer. I lived the match intensely. I felt for sure that we finally win, after a long time and effort. Metaphorically speaking, the promotion of Metaloglobus in Liga 1 means that now the planet Metaloglobus enters the orbit of the FCSB, the star of Becali. It will be something very beautiful, the strongest historical teams of Romania in Liga 1. The family has invested much from all points of view, in people, in the field“, It was the first reaction of Jerry Imad Kassas, quoted by Orange.ro, after his father’s team obtained the historical promotion in the first Romanian football level. In the past, Gloria Buzău was considered the” satellite “of the FCSB (former Steaua), when he was led by Costel Bucur.
Morais, the most sound name
The most important name from Metaloglobus is Junior Morais (38 years old), formerly at Rapid, Astra and FCSB. “Since I came here I said I want to promote. We first tried to be in the play-off, then promote directly, but it could not. We signed that we promote, the contract is extended automatically. We are all happy for this promotion. I am an age. I can hardly wait to start promotion. The boys run for me from time to time. It’s ok, I can. The first match was equal, and now we have all ran and I think I deserved. The secret was Junior Morais that he came to Metaloglobus. I’m kidding. The secret were all the boys, Mr. Zicu. It’s a very good coach. I think it will go on. Săpunaru comes as what, player or coach? I don’t know, I didn’t talk to him. I wish him much bafta if he comes here“, said Junior Morais, at the end of the match in Clinceni. During the period in Astra, Junior Morais won the title of champion in Superliga (2016), the Romanian Cup (2014) and the Romanian Super Cup (2015, 2017).
