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 »

The first round of Romanian league started on 26-27 July. From the ultras point of view, we didn’t have any interesting games…

Fc Arges Pitesti - Politehnica Timisoara was te first game of comeback for Pitesti ultras in the first league. They made a small choreo with an ultras and a player, with the message: “Ready to fight”

Timisoara fans that came to the game showed only one banner: Politehnica Timisoara. They will only show this banner from now on, and not the banners of their groups, because of the situation that they are in (identity confusion for the club, the International Sport’s Court from Laussane forbidden them to use the name “Politehnica” so from now on, until the situation is changed, theu will play under the name FC Timisoara).

Rapid Bucuresti - Gloria Bistrita - nothing out of the ordinary, Bistrita has few supporters, photos with Rapid here

Gloria Buzau - Farul Constanta - after quite a long time for Farul in a mediocre support, they managed to get about 100 people to Buzau. One group made even a small choreo, the photos can be seen here. Buzau supporters are few, the club doesn’t have a tradition of support, the majority of the fans still like the 3 big teams in Bucarest (Steaua, Dinamo and Rapid, but especially Steaua). Read the rest of this entry »

FC Vaslui, the local team from Vaslui (town in Moldavia) qualified from Intertoto Cup to Uefa after the 2 matches against Neftchi Bak (Azerbaidjan). The team from Baku previously eliminated teams from Slovakia ( FC Nitra) and Belgium (Germinal Beerchot).

At the home game, Vaslui ultras from the North terrace (main groups are curently Dorobantii and Excentric) made a choreo composed of 8 canvases. On each canvas there was a letter made in the language of deaf people: FC VASLUI. The message was: “Even we would remain without our voices, you would still feel us in the stands”:

The choreo was initialy prepared in a more complicated way, unfortunately for Vaslui ultras, very few spectators came, bacuse of the heavy rain that flooded Moldavia these days and because of the exagerated price tickets the club put for this game (10 euros for the North/South terraces, considering that vaslui is one of the poorest cities in Romania).