Romanian Ultras movement

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). More photos here.

Thursday came the games in Uefa. As expected, Urziceni didn’t have any fans in the away trip with Hamburg. This team has a real smell of artificial team.
Vaslui fans were only 12 in Prague(6 from South terrace, 6 from North terrace). They came with 3 cars, but needless to say, very small presence :

Rapid went to Wolsfburg, against the third german team Romanian teams were up against.
Since 2 years ago, when Rapid played with other 3 German teams, you could see a decrease in number and in quality in their away trip, caused by the lack of enthusiasm and also because the important groups of Rapid dissapeared because conflicts with the older, mafia-connected, persons from their terrace. You can see more photos from this game here, nothing important to mention about Wolfsburg fans.

Dinamo Bucarest played in Nijmengen, in a game that was considered easy, on the pitch and in the stands. This wasn’t the case, Dinamo lost 1-0 and there were some riots in the stands, in the last minutes of the game. Dinamo ultras threw some torches on the pitch. Nijmengen attacked their sector, the rest you can see in these 2 videos:

As usual, the press made a huge scandal about the Dinamo “hooligans” and how will Dinamo loose the game with 3-0 because of them. The reality is that NEC fans attacked, Dinamo just fought back. The rest is press bullshit, which also made up a story about how Dutch police found drugs in the toilets of Dinamo ultras.

Also an exageration of the press went down in Poli Timisoara’s game against Partizan. Some minor incidents occurred before the game, leaving the chance for “journalists” to speak about the hooligans from Belgrade.
Inside the stadium, South terrace of Timisoara had a very nice choreo, about the identity of their club, a subject very talked these days because Uefa doesn’t let them be called Politehnica or use violet colors, because they say another club has the right to use it (the club of an Italian puppet called Zambon, who’s team now plays somewhere around Bucharest).
The choreo had the message: WE ARE POLI 1921.

Also some messages in Serbian made by the young &restless North terrace of Timisoara:

More photos and videos from this game can be found here

That’s all folks, we wait for the round of 29 September- 1 October for a new report about the Romanian teams in the European Cups.