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FC STEAUA BUCHAREST Thread [2005-2006]

theo

VII
Do you guys think Cristea will take advantage of Iacob's injury?
I mean under Protasov he didn't even have a chance to show what he can do. He has got the abilities to be a very good striker: he's young, fast, has a good finishing (like in the goals vs Otelul, especially the first: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WPBnMHfY_PE&search=Cristea & http://youtube.com/watch?v=hl1b6FWjd3o&search=Cristea), good heading ability and he is pretty tough too. I bet he can score more than last season (8 it was I think) if he knows that he has to give his best in this period.
 

grim

Youth Team
Se7eN said:
Do you guys think Cristea will take advantage of Iacob's injury?
I mean under Protasov he didn't even have a chance to show what he can do. He has got the abilities to be a very good striker: he's young, fast, has a good finishing (like in the goals vs Otelul, especially the first: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WPBnMHfY_PE&search=Cristea & http://youtube.com/watch?v=hl1b6FWjd3o&search=Cristea), good heading ability and he is pretty tough too. I bet he can score more than last season (8 it was I think) if he knows that he has to give his best in this period.


no, Cristea is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEEEE. He has the ability to be a very good striker for mid-table romanian teams but that's it. He's young, fast and he has a.. good finishing but he has the body structure of Ally McBeal, he goes down way too easy, moans a lot and his game seems very.....unidimensional. Hope he'll be proving me wrong as often as possible.


on the other hand, Ajax are interested in Banel and Ogararu. I think they both suit Ajax's (?:D) offensive style perfectly, both fast and young and Ogararu is my favourite player, very skilled and he has a lot of guts to pull some nice tricks on the field in the big games. I'll be posting this in the Ajax thread too :)
 

$teauA

Superstar
grim said:
no, Cristea is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEEEE. He has the ability to be a very good striker for mid-table romanian teams but that's it. He's young, fast and he has a.. good finishing but he has the body structure of Ally McBeal, he goes down way too easy, moans a lot and his game seems very.....unidimensional. Hope he'll be proving me wrong as often as possible.


on the other hand, Ajax are interested in Banel and Ogararu. I think they both suit Ajax's (?:D) offensive style perfectly, both fast and young and Ogararu is my favourite player, very skilled and he has a lot of guts to pull some nice tricks on the field in the big games. I'll be posting this in the Ajax thread too :)

"He's young, fast and he has a.. good finishing but he has the body structure of Ally McBeal" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: couldn't agree more about that and the comment following it "he goes down way too easy, moans a lot and his game seems very.....unidimensional"

There's no way Gigi will let them go for less than 5 million euros, honestly I hope they don't go anywhere.

PS: Se7eN I love how you copied my sig (H)
 

theo

VII
Well at least I changed it a bit :D:lui:.
Anyway, I don't really want Nicolita to leave us this soon, let him go after a couple of more years, please. And about Ogararu, he is the best right-back in Divizia A in my opinion (was in Pirturca's views last year), so if he goes his absence will be really felt.
 

theo

VII
Steaua's tower of strength



Raised in a poor Roma family, Banel Nicolita has struck gold in the UEFA Cup, helping FC Steaua Bucuresti to a semi-final against Middlesbrough FC.

Priceless goal
Nicknamed 'The Golden Boy', the 21-year-old is one of the stars of Steaua's UEFA Cup campaign, scoring the priceless away goal in the quarter-final derby victory against AFC Rapid Bucuresti that catapulted Cosmin Olaroiu's side into the last four. A hard worker and titan of fair play, he is a model professional on the pitch and a model son off it, sending much of his earnings back to his family in small-town Faurei and doing his best to help his brothers find work in Bucharest.

Apple theft
Football was Nicolita's way out of poverty. He has learned to grab his chances with both hands ever since he and a sibling were almost lynched by angry spectators who caught them stealing apples from a garden following a game involving his local side. That team, FC Unirea Faurei, gave Nicolita his first paying job, and he remembers spending the first €9 he earned on a pair of training shoes. What money he had left he gave to his mother, who brought up the midfielder and his four brothers and sisters alone. "I was tempted to buy other stuff, too, but I desperately needed trainers," he said.

Collision course
At 16, second division FC Dacia Unirea Braila spotted Nicolita's talent, and he was soon on a collision course with the big time, making his debut for Romania's Under-21s in August 2003 before earning a move to Divizia A side FCU Politehnica Timisoara in summer 2004. Money continued to be an issue for Nicolita. He turned up for his first training session at his new club by train and barely had anything suitable to wear.

Steaua call
However, things were to become much easier six months later when he was brought to Steaua for a fee of €100,000. "It was the greatest experience and the biggest opportunity of my life," Nicolita said. "It changed everything." It did not change his outlook on life, however, as he continues to demonstrate the hard-running and clean-living attributes which have contributed to his rise to stardom.

Career high
He reached another career high on 12 November last year when he debuted for the senior national team, but things have not always been easy for Nicolita, whose Roma origins have made him a target for racist abuse from the stands. Nicolita is doing his bit to combat the problem in Romanian football, fronting Steaua's anti-racist initiatives and making a public appeal to fans from both sides on the eve of the UEFA Cup derby in Bucharest. A player whose humility commands respect, his pleas did not go unnoticed.

Middlesbrough next
Now his focus is on impressing on the pitch as he looks to use his speed and tenacity to unhinge Middlesbrough, starting with the home leg on Thursday week. For Steaua and Nicolita's huge contingent of supporters back in Faurei, the youngster is proving that with the right combination of skill and determination, anything is possible.
 

Paulo Da Silva

Starting XI
it would be awesome for you guys to win this thing. Good luck i'll be rooting for you.

great article on Nicolita, btw he's gonna be great.

What info can u guys give me on Daniel and Marius Niculae
 

$teauA

Superstar
- Cum apreciaţi calificarea Stelei în semifinalele Cupei UEFA?
- Cinste şi respect pentru Steaua şi Rapid! După eliminare, l-am sunat pe George Copos şi l-am felicitat pentru performanţa obţinută de Rapid. O să-l sun şi pe Marius Lăcătuş, dar sper să o fac după ce cîştigă trofeul. Steaua e singura echipă cu nume din semifinale. Cine e Middlesbrough?

Haha (H), Boloni on the UEFA Cup semifinals http://www.gsp.ro/index.php?a=39873&shift=1
 

theo

VII
Thanks.
By the way, here are your answers Paulo: Daniel Niculae is a good striker, one of the most promising talents in Romania atm. He's about 23 years old, complete type of striker I can say. About Marius, I don't know. He's a penalty box player, didn't perform so much at Sporting Lisbon and since he transferred to Belgium I didn't see him play. Not in the national team's plans for sure.
 

$teauA

Superstar
Man tough tough victory today against Iasi, I swear Theo I was gonna cuss you out if your hometown team managed to steal away points :jap:. There will be no controversy this time, it was a clear penalty on Oprita and it's nice to see Dica score again he's been struggling as of late.

As for the "derby" Rapid is leading Dinamo 1-0 in the 30th minute. 2 or 3 more from Rapid wouldn't hurt us too bad (H)

edit: haha Rapid won 3-0, that ties Steaua for first place on 43 points with one game in hand :rockman:

edit: Talk about one-city domination, at the moment the top five clubs are all from Bucharest :| 1) Steaua 2) Dinamo 3) Sportul 4) Rapid 5) National
 

Emte

Reserve Team
$teauA said:
edit: Talk about one-city domination, at the moment the top five clubs are all from Bucharest :| 1) Steaua 2) Dinamo 3) Sportul 4) Rapid 5) National

hehe in Poland is different situation... Warsaw clubs exept for Legia are poor.
Polonia Warsaw is last in polish 1st league... In 2nd division isn't any team from Warsaw! In 3rd division in Poland is only Legia reserves!! Only in 4th division are some Warsaw clubs! :P
 

theo

VII
$teauA said:
Man tough tough victory today against Iasi, I swear Theo I was gonna cuss you out if your hometown team managed to steal away points :jap:.
Haha, Poli always manages to get points out of the Steaua clashes (last year for example, they got 4 points from us :D). But this was really not the best time for Iasi to get a good result in Bucharest. They don't need it anyway, they don't have any chances to get relegated.
Good win, it was a hard game and the pitch was crap. How's the work going on Ghencea?
 

$teauA

Superstar
Se7eN said:
Haha, Poli always manages to get points out of the Steaua clashes (last year for example, they got 4 points from us :D). But this was really not the best time for Iasi to get a good result in Bucharest. They don't need it anyway, they don't have any chances to get relegated.
Good win, it was a hard game and the pitch was crap. How's the work going on Ghencea?

Yeah I know Iasi is always a pain in the ass. About Ghencea I haven't heard anything :ewan:
 

theo

VII
Interesting article about Carlos Fernandes


Carlos: "Am vrut să mă las de fotbal!"
Răzvan Rotaru, Shifty Udrea

Carlos dezvăluie în premieră că, după gafa din meciul tur cu Rapid, a vrut să rupă contractul cu Steaua şi să renunţe la carieră

Îmbrăcat extravagant. Pantofi de culoare portocalie, şosete negre, pantaloni maro deschis, cămaşă în mai multe culori, brăţară de plastic la mîna stîngă şi de metal la cea dreaptă. Se întîlneşte cu MM în faţa biroului acestuia de la tribuna oficială a stadionului. "Copile!", îi spune managerul Stelei. Portughezul rîde. "Copile!", răspunde şi Carlos în româneşte, după care continuă: "De fapt, nu eşti copile, eşti fratele meu". Cere o cafea şi un pahar de apă plată şi apoi oferă primul interviu de la venirea la Steaua. Vorbeşte în franceză, dar mai aruncă din cînd în cînd şi cuvinte româneşti.

- Carlos, se spune despre tine că eşti un pic nebun, chiar impresarul tău a spus asta. Ce zici?
- Toate lucrurile ieşite din comun pe care le fac pe teren e pentru că eu iubesc, simt şi trăiesc jocul ăsta. Eu vreau să fiu remarcat la fiecare meci, vreau să mă implic, nu să fiu ca alţi portari care se evideţiază doar atunci cînd primesc gol sau greşesc.

- Ce impresie ţi-a lăsat România?
- E o ţară foarte mare faţă de Portugalia. Ce m-a şocat cel mai tare? Fanatismul fanilor, care sînt în stare de orice pentru echipa lor.

- Ce îţi place şi ce nu îţi place în Bucureşti?
- Îmi plac oamenii, sînt deschişi, îmi place mîncarea, calitatea serviciilor este la fel ca în Portugalia. Nu-mi plac, în schimb, paparazzii. Nu sînt obişnuit cu aşa ceva, aici se dă importanţă prea mare unor lucruri normale. Apoi, mai sînt traficul infernal şi drumurile proaste.

"Îmi venea să intru în pămînt"
- Care e cel mai bun meci al tău la Steaua?
- Ambele dispute cu Betis. Dar să ştiţi că încă nu sînt la nivelul maxim.

- Sincer, la ce te-ai gîndit prima dată după ce ai gafat în meciul cu Rapid?
- Foarte sincer, îmi venea să sap o groapă mare chiar pe teren şi să intru în ea, să dispar de pe faţa pămîntului de ruşine. După meci i-am zis lui MM că vreau să mă las de fotbal, pentru că n-am făcut în viaţa mea o asemenea eroare. În cariera unui jucător, apare o astfel de mare greşeală. La mine, din păcate, a venit tocmai la acest nivel, sper să fie ultima.

- Care e diferenţa dintre fotbalul portughez şi cel românesc?
- Stadioanele şi gazoanele sînt mult mai bune acolo, în schimb, aici sînt peste tot pline. În Portugalia se joacă mai tehnic, dar şi mai dur. În România, fotbaliştii joacă simplu, sînt mai preocupaţi să asculte ce le spune antrenorul, joacă pentru echipă. Acolo există mai multe driblinguri, mai multă fantezie. Toţi sînt individualişti.

- Oferă Bucureştiul o viaţă de noapte mai tentantă decît Porto sau Lisabona?
- Da, oferă, dacă jucătorii au o asemenea viaţă de noapte.

- Ce atacant din Divizia A te-a impresionat cel mai tare?
- Victoraş Iacob.

"Băsescu e mereu vesel"
- Îţi plac manelele?
- Nu e muzica mea preferată. Am ascultat de două ori aşa ceva, a venit Oli cu un CD special făcut pentru noi după ce ne-am calificat în semifinale, dar nu înţelegeam ce se cîntă, dar auzeam că se zice de MM, de Gigi, de Lăcătuş.

- Ce impresie ţi-a lăsat preşedintele României, Traian Băsescu?
- N-am avut timp să-l cunosc foarte bine, dar mi-a lăsat impresia unui om foarte cult, dar şi foarte umil. Apoi, parcă tot timpul se află într-o dispoziţie extraordinară.

- Ce alegi între Buffon şi Cech?
- Pe amîndoi.

- Între Ronaldinho şi Şevcenko?
- Pe primul, pentru că e la fel ca mine, iubeşte fotbalul şi tot ce face pe teren face din suflet şi din inimă.

Cum îi caracterizează pe....
... Gigi Becali
"Persoană foarte simplă. E onest şi are o personalitate puternică"

... Cosmin Olăroiu
"Pentru mine este al doilea Mourinho. Are aceeaşi personalitate, e foarte cultivat în ceea ce priveşte fotbalul. Are o relaţie extraordinară cu jucătorii, ştie să vorbească în faţa lor, adică la fel ca psihologia lui Mourinho"

... Mirel Rădoi
"A făcut două lucruri incredibile pentru mine şi nu voi uita niciodată aceste gesturi. După meciul tur cu Heerenveen, primul pe care l-a felicitat am fost eu. M-a luat în braţe şi mi-a zis «Bravo!», deşi eu eram cel mai nou la echipă. Apoi, după ce am gafat cu Rapid, a venit la mine imediat şi m-a ridicat de la pămînt. Gesturi unice, e un mare profesionist"


600.000 de euro a plătit Steaua pentru transferul său de la Boavista Porto

120.000 de euro este salariul anual pe care Carlos îl primeşte în Ghencea

5 goluri a încasat Carlos în cele 12 meciuri oficiale în care a apărat poarta Stelei, reuşind să nu primească mai mult de un gol pe meci

7 este numărul partidelor în care portarul lusitan a izbutit să nu primească gol: "dubla" cu Betis Sevilla şi returul cu Rapid, în Cupa UEFA, şi meciurile cu FC Argeş, FC Naţional, Oţelul şi Poli Iaşi, în Divizia A

Ce calităţi crede că are
- sînt foarte serios
- am o personalitate foarte puternică

Ce defecte crede că are
- sînt extrovertit
- sînt încăpăţînat

"Trei muşchetari are Steaua. Rădoi, Boştină şi, bineînţeles, Carlos Fernandes"
Carlos

"Înaintea meciului cu Rapid am avut probleme la picior. Eu sînt un profesionist şi niciodată n-aş putea să simulez ceva, aşa cum s-a speculat"
Carlos

"N-am văzut Casa Poporului, dar vreau să o vizitez. Aştept să-mi fac timp liber, pentru că pînă acum, la ritmul de meciuri, n-am făcut altceva decît să dorm în timpul liber"
Carlos

Ce tatuaje are
1. "Pe gamba stîngă am un diavol lîngă care am pus o literă chinezească, semnifică dragostea. Mama mi-a zis cînd eram mic că sînt ca un drac şi de-asta mi-am făcut tatuajul ăsta"

2. "Pe antebraţul stîng mi-am tatuat numele fetiţei mele"

3. "La gît, pe partea stîngă, am aceeaşi literă chinezească, la fel ca şi pe picior, care înseamnă dragoste"

4. "Ultimul este pe abdomen, în partea dreaptă, şi este o panteră, simbolul de pe emblema clubului Boavista Porto"
 

$teauA

Superstar
Do you guys think he's been better than Hamu so far? I personally rate them about the same although Carlos can kick the ball farther and with more precision so he gets a slight nod there.
 


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