For the first time in its history Romania has 7 teams in European Cup. What seemed to be a joke a couple of years ago became reality. This is mainly due to Rapid and Steaua reaching 3 years ago the the higher phases of UEFA Cup and to some constant results of Steaua. Also, Vaslui victory in Intertoto helped , so we had 2 teams in Champions league and 5 in UEFA Cup.

The start was of CFR Cluj, a team which came a long way since 6 years ago, when it played in third division. With massive investment in it by a Hungarian ethnic named Arpad Paskany and with the majority of players being foreigners, this team managed to win the championship and the cup last year. The ultras scene at this team isn’t that good, as the first team of Cluj with tradition is their arch - rival, U Cluj. The away trip to Rome was good enough or them, 300 persons from which some Romanian workers in Italy, all the important groups being present :
Here is the opinion of Lorenzo, ASRomaultras webmaster about them, in Italian:
Tifo Cluj:
Colorati i 350 tifosi rumeni, che incitano la squadra all’antica, con tanta voce e battimani. Si fanno sentire, complice la buona prestazione della loro squadra. Il tifo è un po’ datato, specialmente per i cori ma, in ogni caso, è stato assai più che sufficiente per farsi sentire nell’Olimpico semivuoto:
Voto: 6,5

The next day came the game of Steaua against the Germans from Bayern Munchen. The North terrace of Steaua had a coreo that with a sun made of papers and a canvas which had on it the attack of a Turkish army (Steaua played with Galatasaray in the last round), with the message THE SIXTH HORIZON IN THE EUROPEAN ELITE (Steaua played until now 6 times in Champions League).


Also worth mentioning is decent support from Bayern fans, however, one must say that they came in much bigger number last year when they played the other Steaua (in translation Star) from Belgrade, the Red Star (I was at that game and they were about 1 000 Germans). Read the rest of this entry »