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  • Sports weekend

    Sports weekend

    Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu this
    coming Saturday will prove her mettle in the women’s doubles semi-finals
    of the WTA 250 tournament in Lyon, an event with 225, 480 Euros in prize money. Pairing
    up with Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic, In the quarterfinals, Niculescu
    secured her qualification winning the match against the all-American pair made
    of Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria, 5-7, 6-1, 10-7.


    Romanian women’s handball team SCM Râmnicu
    Vâlcea on Saturday play a home game against German opponents Thuringer. The
    fixture counts towards the fourth round as part of the EHF European League’s group
    stage. With 6 points in three games, Thuringer are at the top of the table in Group
    D. With 2 points but with a better goal average, SCM Ramnicu Vâlcea are second-placed,
    on a par with 3rd and 4rd-placed teams, Paris 92 of France and Hungary’s Vac.


    The Champions League will see matches being
    played, counting towards the last-but-one-round of the group stage. On Saturday,
    Rapid Bucharest travel to France for a match against the Group B leader, Metz
    Handball. For holders Rapid, the game is extremely important for their direct qualification
    to the quarterfinals.


    Two rounds ahead of the group stage, Metz Handball
    have 21 points. Following in descending order are Hungarian team Gyor, Denmark’s
    Esbjerg and Rapid Bucharest, with 18 points each. On Sunday and on home turf, in
    Group A CSM Bucharest play also a French team, Brest Bretagne. Romania’s
    vice-champion team have already secured their ticket to the quarterfinals, also
    being the leaders in the rankings, with 21 points. Following in descending order
    are Norway’s Vipers Kristiansand, with 19 points. Playing straight to the Champions
    League’s quarterfinals are only the first two teams in each group. According to
    a round-robin system, 3rd,
    4th, 5th and 6th-placed teams compete in the League’s play-off stage.


    Matches counting
    towards the 24th round of the Romanian football Superleague are scheduled at
    the weekend. On Friday, Chindia Târgovişte play UTA Arad and FC U Craiova face Universitatea
    Cluj. On Saturday in Sibiu, the local side Hermannstadt receive the visit of FC
    Arges, while in Bucharest Rapid play FC Voluntari. On Sunday, Mioveni play a home game against Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. The 24th
    round’s derby will see CFR Cluj traveling to Bucharest for a fixture against
    FCSB. On Monday, Petrolul Ploiesti play
    FC Botosani, away from home, while in Ovidiu, in the south-east, Farul
    Constanta face Universitatea Craiova. With 50 points, CFR Cluj are at the top
    of the table, while Farul Constanta are the runner-up team, with 48.(EN)



  • Sports weekend

    Sports weekend

    Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu this
    coming Saturday will prove her mettle in the women’s doubles semi-finals
    of the WTA 250 tournament in Lyon, an event with 225, 480 Euros in prize money. Pairing
    up with Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic, In the quarterfinals, Niculescu
    secured her qualification winning the match against the all-American pair made
    of Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria, 5-7, 6-1, 10-7.


    Romanian women’s handball team SCM Râmnicu
    Vâlcea on Saturday play a home game against German opponents Thuringer. The
    fixture counts towards the fourth round as part of the EHF European League’s group
    stage. With 6 points in three games, Thuringer are at the top of the table in Group
    D. With 2 points but with a better goal average, SCM Ramnicu Vâlcea are second-placed,
    on a par with 3rd and 4rd-placed teams, Paris 92 of France and Hungary’s Vac.


    The Champions League will see matches being
    played, counting towards the last-but-one-round of the group stage. On Saturday,
    Rapid Bucharest travel to France for a match against the Group B leader, Metz
    Handball. For holders Rapid, the game is extremely important for their direct qualification
    to the quarterfinals.


    Two rounds ahead of the group stage, Metz Handball
    have 21 points. Following in descending order are Hungarian team Gyor, Denmark’s
    Esbjerg and Rapid Bucharest, with 18 points each. On Sunday and on home turf, in
    Group A CSM Bucharest play also a French team, Brest Bretagne. Romania’s
    vice-champion team have already secured their ticket to the quarterfinals, also
    being the leaders in the rankings, with 21 points. Following in descending order
    are Norway’s Vipers Kristiansand, with 19 points. Playing straight to the Champions
    League’s quarterfinals are only the first two teams in each group. According to
    a round-robin system, 3rd,
    4th, 5th and 6th-placed teams compete in the League’s play-off stage.


    Matches counting
    towards the 24th round of the Romanian football Superleague are scheduled at
    the weekend. On Friday, Chindia Târgovişte play UTA Arad and FC U Craiova face Universitatea
    Cluj. On Saturday in Sibiu, the local side Hermannstadt receive the visit of FC
    Arges, while in Bucharest Rapid play FC Voluntari. On Sunday, Mioveni play a home game against Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. The 24th
    round’s derby will see CFR Cluj traveling to Bucharest for a fixture against
    FCSB. On Monday, Petrolul Ploiesti play
    FC Botosani, away from home, while in Ovidiu, in the south-east, Farul
    Constanta face Universitatea Craiova. With 50 points, CFR Cluj are at the top
    of the table, while Farul Constanta are the runner-up team, with 48.(EN)



  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    Romania’s football champions, CFR Cluj, Tuesday played their first match in the Champions League qualifier stage. The team coached by Dan Petrescu played away from home against the Armenian champions, FC Pyunik Yerevan. The match ended in a blank draw.



    The Cluj side had the game under control and missed a lot of opportunities to score, especially in the first half. But they came closest to scoring in the second half of the game, on 73 min, when the Croatian player Gabriel Debeljuh sent the ball straight into the crossbar of the Armenians’ goal.



    In fact, the Croatian footballer was the most dangerous striker of CFR, working well with the other member of his team’s attack flank, Ciprian Deac. The Romanian team were clearly in advantage, with 16-5 shots and 5-1 shots on goal. Moreover, CFR had as many as 11 corner kicks, as against 5 for Pyunik, however none of them managed to threaten the Armenian goal.



    The return leg of the match between CFR Cluj and FC Pyunik Yerevan is scheduled for next Wednesday in Cluj-Napoca. If they win, CFR will move up into the second preliminary round of the Champions League, and will play against the winner of the match between Dudelange Luxembourg and KF Tirana of Albania.



    CFR have bitter memories when it comes to Dudelange, against which they played in the 2018 – 2019 Europa League qualifiers and which beat them twice, 2-0 in Luxembourg and 3-2 in Cluj.



    Until the second leg of the match against FC Pyunik Yerevan, CFR are scheduled to go to Arad, to play for Romania’s football Super Cup against Cup winners Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. The latter side plays this final for the first time in history, while CFR have 4 such trophies already, won in 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2020. The team also lost 4 other finals. (AMP)


  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    Romania’s football champions, CFR Cluj, Tuesday played their first match in the Champions League qualifier stage. The team coached by Dan Petrescu played away from home against the Armenian champions, FC Pyunik Yerevan. The match ended in a blank draw.



    The Cluj side had the game under control and missed a lot of opportunities to score, especially in the first half. But they came closest to scoring in the second half of the game, on 73 min, when the Croatian player Gabriel Debeljuh sent the ball straight into the crossbar of the Armenians’ goal.



    In fact, the Croatian footballer was the most dangerous striker of CFR, working well with the other member of his team’s attack flank, Ciprian Deac. The Romanian team were clearly in advantage, with 16-5 shots and 5-1 shots on goal. Moreover, CFR had as many as 11 corner kicks, as against 5 for Pyunik, however none of them managed to threaten the Armenian goal.



    The return leg of the match between CFR Cluj and FC Pyunik Yerevan is scheduled for next Wednesday in Cluj-Napoca. If they win, CFR will move up into the second preliminary round of the Champions League, and will play against the winner of the match between Dudelange Luxembourg and KF Tirana of Albania.



    CFR have bitter memories when it comes to Dudelange, against which they played in the 2018 – 2019 Europa League qualifiers and which beat them twice, 2-0 in Luxembourg and 3-2 in Cluj.



    Until the second leg of the match against FC Pyunik Yerevan, CFR are scheduled to go to Arad, to play for Romania’s football Super Cup against Cup winners Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. The latter side plays this final for the first time in history, while CFR have 4 such trophies already, won in 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2020. The team also lost 4 other finals. (AMP)


  • September 4, 2019 UPDATE

    September 4, 2019 UPDATE

    REPATRIATION All diplomatic personnel of the Embassy of Romania in Kabul will be brought back to the country as soon as possible, in the wake of Monday nights terror attack. A 43-year old Romanian member of the security team was killed, while another member of the diplomatic mission was wounded and is currently stable. The embassy headquarters was damaged severely and is out of use. In Bucharest, the Foreign Ministry, President Klaus Iohannis and PM Viorica Dăncilă firmly condemned the attack and reiterated Romanias support to the fight against terrorism. The head of state awarded the Romanian killed in Kabul the Star of Romania order in the rank of Knight. Romania is one of the top 5 contributors to the NATO mission in Afghanistan, with over 760 troops deployed so far to that theatre of operations.




    CONFERENCE NATO will continue to make long-term investments, in line with its commitment in the Western Balkans, the chairman of NATOs Military Committee, Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach said in Bucharest on Wednesday, at the end of the conference of Balkan defence chiefs on military cooperation. In turn, the Romanian chief of staff, Gen. Nicolae Ciucă, said maintaining appropriate military cooperation and the provision of real support would help Balkan countries to build efficient institutions and to reform their defence sectors in order to cope with the challenges generated by poverty, terrorism, social and inter-ethnic tensions. President Klaus Iohannis in turn said in a message that Romania, as a NATO and EU member country, pays special attention to the countries in this region and supports closer ties between them and the European and trans-Atlantic family. Attending the conference were delegations from Albania, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Turkey, with Croatian and Slovenian officials as observers. This has been the 13th edition of this event designed to improve regional cooperation, strengthen security in the Balkans, identify and develop a regional crisis management mechanism and enhancing the interoperability of military forces in the region.




    VOTE A total of 20,040 Romanians living abroad had registered to vote by mail and 19,430 for polling station voting until Wednesday, ahead of the November presidential election, the Permanent Electoral Authority has announced. According to the same source, the registration deadline may be postponed from September 11 to 15, which means that Romanian citizens who live abroad have another 11 days to enrol as voters abroad on a dedicated platform, www.votstrainatate.ro. Around 9.7 million Romanians are currently living outside the country, according to data provided by the 70 diplomatic missions and centralised by the Ministry for the Romanians Abroad.




    FOOTBALL Romanias national football team plays against Spain in Bucharest on Thursday, in the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign. Organisers say over 50,000 tickets have been sold. Spain is the unchallenged leader of Group F with 12 points, followed by Sweden with 7 points and Romania, also with 7 points but a worse goal difference. The group also includes Norway (5 points), Malta (3 points) and the Faroe Islands (0 points). Romanias next match is against Malta, on September 8, on home turf. The Romanian U21 team is to take on Denmark on September 10 in Aalborg, in the first qualifier for the EURO 2021.


    (translated by: Ana-Maria Popescu)