On a day of national mourning decreed by the authorities after the death of Ion Iliescu (95 years), the first president of post-communist Romania, Romanian football has scheduled gala meetings with Western football, on the occasion of matches in the European Cups.
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The Europa League – Tour Three Prileiminari
CFR Cluj – Sporting Braga 1-2
Sinyan (30) / Gorby (17 and 50)
FCSB – Drita 0-2 / live
Tuşa (7), Manage (49)
Conference League – preliminary three round
U Craiova – Spartak Trnava 2-0 / live
Baiaram (51), Al Hamlawi (54)
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From 9.30 pm, live on Pro TV, FCSB will face it today, on its own ground, on Drita (Kosovo champion), in the first preliminary round of the Europa League, the last obstacle to the play-off that sends to the long group. The FCSB players return to the “National Arena” after the shocks lived on the largest arena of the country with Shkendija, which interrupted the dream of the Champions League, and Dinamo, from Superliga, both disputes concluded with traumatic failures. FCSB knows what awaits her if she will go through Drita. In the play-off will come across the Scottish team Aberdeen, 5th place in the previous internal championship. However, if he does not pass Drita, FCSB will “retrograde” in the Conference League play-off, where he will face the winner of the “double” between Diffirdange (Luxembourg) and Levadia Tallinn (Estonia).
Full infirmary and almost empty stands
The problems of “red-blue” are multiple and important, both mentally and at the level of effective. Mihai Stoica, the president of the FCSB Administrative Council, announced that the champion team has very big lot problems for the match with Drita. Ngezana (central defender) and Florin Tanase (offensive midfielder) are suspended, while Darius Olaru flew to Belgrade, to be restored by the Marijana Kovačević. In addition, other footballers entered the list of those with medical problems: Valentin Crețu, Risto Radunovic and Denis Alibec. The official could not specify the last three will be in the lot in the Tour match with Drita. And the fans seem to have taken the team distance after the beginning of the season. The stadium will not be half full at the game with the kosovari. It is estimated that there will be more than 15,000 spectators in the “National Arena”.
“We went to the head”
The tension is felt at FCSB. The employer chose not to quarrel with the players, and Stoica ignored: “I didn’t talk to the players during this period. In the past, I have done it many times. The last time I spoke in the locker room I did it with the walls. Then, among other things, I spoke of indiscipline and said that I will no longer tolerate acts of indiscipline or players protesting. After that, you saw what happened to the lighthouse. The domino effect is this: this match was lost and it could be won in 11 against 11. If we won, we could get aplomb. I speak hypothetically. Look, we didn’t get anything and went to the head: four consecutive defeats, and these things are intolerable and are very, very upset”, The Mihai Stoica’s office, paid as an analyst at the first sport, said.
Edjoua, on the UEFA list
FCSB turned his gaze to the ignored players, hoping he would get out of the results crisis. This is why the name of midfielder Malcolm Edjoua is appeared on the list that the Romanian champion he sent to UEFA for the “double” with the Kosovan group. “We “transfer” to Edjouma. That’s what MM said. Plus, I was wrong. There was to be compared between Edjoua, Gheorghiță and Stefanescu as power, value. I had to choose Edjoua, then Stefanescu and Gheorghiță. Even Băluță how to put in comparison with Băluță with Gheorghiță? Gheorghiță is not taken for now, but for a year or two. He had to be borrowed. Edjoua had a little more and left“, Commented the owner Gigi Becali, about the return of Malcom Edjoa, who was left to go to the rival CFR Cluj. But in Gruia, Ovidiu Perianu, who had the days counted at FCSB.
Shkendija showed her limits
Shkendija, the team that eliminated FCSB from the Champions League preliminaries, was defeated on Tuesday by Qarabag in the early leg of the three qualifying round, score 0-1, with the only goal scored from the point with lime. If he had passed Shkendija, FCSB would have faced the third round with older acquaintance, Qarabag, which he faced in January, in the Europa League. This will not happen. The champion of the North Macedonia defeated that of Romania, thus advancing in the preliminary round for “double” with Qarabag. Although defeated, Shkendija can stay up after this match. The ratio of the shot was 17-18, of the ceded executions 7-6. A benefit that keeps them in books before the decisive duel, scheduled next Tuesday, at 7:00 pm. The winner between Qarabag and Shkendija will play in the play-off against Ludogoreț or Ferencvaros.
Qaka supports Drita
After eliminating the FCSB from the Champions League, Kamer Qaka (30 years old), the midst of Shkendija and the former player of the “red-blue”, had a support message for Drita. After being ironized by Romanian officials, Qaka took hatred and keeps the Kosovar’s fists at the FCSB match in the Europa League. “We have more confidence after we made in Romania. All the matches we played in Europe were difficult, but the one in Bucharest was of another level and we did. There were many FCSB fans, but even so I defeated. FCSB is favorite with Drita, but you never know what is happening in football. FCSB was a favorite against us and we went on. I hope Drita repeat what we did!“, Said Qaka, according to Koha.net. The FCSB people disregarded the North Macedonia champion, including the failure, 0-1, from the tour, and Kamer Qaka, the midstija midfielder in the match-Tur, waited for the perfect time to take revenge. After the statements of Gigi Becali”Shkendija is a team of division C“Or”I have no emotion on return, we give them four goals“, Kamer Qaka wrote on Instagram:” Stay humble. ” Kamer Qaka was a player at FCSB, but he only resisted the team in the summer of 2018.
CFR, with the thought of Costa
In the preliminary round of the Europa League, CFR Cluj has a terrible duel with Sporting Braga, today, from 7.30 pm (Digi Sport 1 and the first sport 1). Both teams are still under the effect of the news regarding the death of Portuguese Jorge Costa, a former coach in Romania at CFR Cluj and Gaz Metan Mediaș, who ceased life during Tuesday, at the age of 53. CFR is known as having close ties with Portugal, where he brought in time “legions” of footballers, but also coaches, including Jorge Costa.
He died on the field
The former Portuguese international has made a cardio-respiratory stop, while in the premises of the training center of FC Porto, formation in which the general manager held, in the summer of 2024, according to the Lusitan press. The former coach was hurt suddenly, on the field, attending the training of the Drago group. He was urgently transported to Sao Joao Hospital in Porto, where he finally died. The medical stff of the band would have given him the first medical care, using even a defibrillator, but the attempts to stabilize were in vain. The former international defender fainted on Tuesday morning on FC Porto’s training ground. He was urgently transported to the hospital but died shortly after arrival, according to the local press. Jorge Costa spent most of his career at FC Porto, the club with which he won the Champions League in 2004 and was crowned Portugal champion eight times, being the team captain for several seasons. With 50 selections at the first Lusitan representative, he was part of the 1991 U20 World Cup winners, especially with Luis Figo.
26 matches on the CFR bank
After the withdrawal from the activity, the coach’s career did not reach the same success. The most notable moment was the successful promotion with Olhannse in the first league. In Romania, he was appointed coach of the CFR Cluj team at the beginning of the 2011-2012 season, but did not remain until the end of the season, being replaced in the spring of 2012, after a painful defeat, 0-5 with Rapid, on his own ground. He returned to Romanian football in the autumn of 2020, when he took over the technical management of Gaz Metan Mediaș. His mandate there lasted only 16 matches, ending in February 2021.
The CFR Cluj football club expresses regret for the disappearance of his former coach and announces that the team will evolve in his memory. “The CFR 1907 Cluj club expresses its regret and deep sadness for the passage to the eternal ones of our former coach, Jorge Costa, who has extinguished from life at the age of 53. Condolences to the grieving family! May God rest in peace!“, It is mentioned on the website of the Transylvanian group. The former Portuguese technician led CFR Cluj between July 1, 2011 and April 9, 2012. In the 26 matches, he won 15 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats.
The Oltenians, tested by the Trnava
In the preliminary round of Conference League, Craiova University resumes its European assault today, from 9.30 pm (Digi Sport 1 and the first sport 1), in the dispute with Slovaks from Spartak Trnava, for which a former dynamovist evolves. Kristaán Koštrna. He was on the team in 2020 and only caught eight games. He arrived in Dinamo in January of that year. If almost 20,000 fans were present at the return with Sarajevo, the interest increased for the duel with Trnava, from the third round, where more supporters are expected, even over 25,000. For the pyrotechnic show from the return with Sarajevo, the North Lawn of the Oltenians was sanctioned. The club will have to pay a fine of 12,000 euros from UEFA to block the access stairs plus 20,000 euros to use pyrotechnic materials and throw objects on the ground. And in the case of a recurrence, certain areas of the lawn will be closed.
