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  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    The Romanian
    handball player Christina Neagu has been awarded the title of world’s
    best handballer in 2018, the International Handball Federation has announced.
    The Romanian is the first athlete to have received the trophy awarded by the
    aforementioned body, four times. We recall Neagu was previously awarded the
    trophy in 2010, 2015 and 2016.


    In 2018, Cristina
    Neagu’s challengers for the world’s best handball player title were Russia’s Ana
    Viahireva, Amandine Leynaud and Estelle Nze Minko of France as well as
    Norwegian handballer Stine Oftedal.




    In 2018, Cristina
    Neagu walked away with the Champions League bronze medal she won with her team,
    CSM Bucharest. Neagu succeeded to win the League’s top scorer title for the
    second time in her career, with 110 goals. Cristina was nominated for
    the competition’s dream team for the fourth time running, for the inter-left
    position. Also in 2018, Neagu walked away with Romania’s champion title and
    Romania’s Cup in handball, with CSMB.


    At EURO 2018,
    Cristina Neagu was the national team’s best handballer. At the European
    competition hosted by France, she led her team all the way up to the semis, for
    the third time in the team’s history and for the first time after 2010.
    However, Neagu was denied the opportunity to play in the semis and the 3rd-place
    fixture because of a very serious injury.

    Also at EURO 2018, Cristina Neagu was
    the best scorer in the history of the European Championship, with 237 goals.
    Neagu thus outclassed such legend handball players as the Hungarian Agnes
    Farkas and Germany’ s Grit Jurack.


    In January, Cristina
    Neagu was designated Europe’s best handball player in 2018, according to a
    survey carried on the European Federation’s Facebook page, with more than 10,000
    fans participating. The Romanian thus won the title for the second year
    running.

  • May 6, 2016 UPDATE

    May 6, 2016 UPDATE

    INAUGURATION The head of the diplomacy in Bucharest, Lazar Comanescu, on Friday inaugurated Romania’s consulate in Solotvino a town in Ukraine connected with the Romanian city of Sighetul Marmatiei through a historical bridge over the Tisa River. Comanescu says that the new consulate will contribute to the further consolidation of the relations between Romania and Ukraine and will ease the enforcement of an agreement on the cross-border trade. The Romanian Foreign Minister held talks with representatives of the Romanian community in TransCarpathia, which included headmasters and members of various associations. The Romanian community in Ukraine is estimated at more than 400 thousand people.



    VISIT Antony Blinken, the United States Deputy Secretary of State will be paying a visit to Romania over Saturday and Sunday, says a communiqué issued by the US Department of State. Blinken is expected to hold talks with Romanian officials about the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw, the bilateral cooperation in the field of security, the Romanian-US economic partnership, the rule of law and reforms in Romania. The US official will be meeting representatives of the business community and civil society. Romania is the third leg of Blinken’s diplomatic tour, which is also taking him to Poland and Bulgaria. On Monday and Tuesday, the US official is expected in France, the last leg of this tour, which has high on the agenda various issues concerning bilateral and regional cooperation.



    ALL STAR Romanian handballer Cristina Neagu of the Montenegrin side Buducnost Podgorica has been selected for the All Star Team of the 2015/2016 Champions League edition in women’s handball. Neagu became part of the team following the 28 thousand votes registered in an online poll the European Handball Federation had conducted among fans. All Star also includes three Norwegians, two Hungarians and one player from Romania, Montenegro, the Netherlands and Brazil. Coach Ambrod Martin is from Spain.



    CONCERT The National Radio Orchestra on Friday gave a royal concert honouring the day of May 10th, which is Royalty Day in Romania. Conducting was Nicolae Moldoveanu, and the soloist was violinist Gabriel Croitoru. The event enjoyed the attendance of their Royal Highnesses Prince Radu, Princess Elena and Princess Maria. Before the beginning of the concert, a volume titled “the Royal Year” was launched at the Radio Hall, a journal recollecting the 150 years since the establishment of the Royal House of Romania and the promulgation of the 1866 Constitution. A number of events dedicated to May 10th will be held in Bucharest and the mountain resort of Sinaia until next Tuesday. Before the communists came to power in Romania, in 1947, May 10th was Romania’s National Day. Later, the celebration was erased from the Romanians’ collective memory. On May 10th, 1866, Carol 1st became the ruler of Romania. 11 years later, the Romanian state gained its independence, and on May 10th, 1881, Romania became a kingdom.



    EUROVISION EBU Director General Ingrid Deltenre on Friday said it was regrettable to be forced to take the extreme measure of not allowing Romania to participate in the Eurovision music contest. The EBU official talked in Bucharest with representatives of the Finance Ministry, Parliament, the Council of Competition and the public television broadcaster TVR. The measure, which is a first, was taken in response to the record high debt (roughly 10 million euros) the Romanian broadcaster has to EBU (the European Broadcasting Union). This year the Eurovision contest will be held in Stockholm over May 10th-14th and Romania was to be represented by Ovidiu Anton with a song entitled ‘A Moment of Silence. At the same time, if the Romanian broadcaster is excluded from EBU it will lose the rights of broadcasting specific international sporting events such as the European Football Championship in France or the Olympics in Rio as well as access to News Services.