Arsenal next Champion League Oponent - FC STEAUA BUCURESTI ， 描述： How many of you know this Club???

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Our club STEAUA is no longer a Romanian brand any more, but a respected name in the world`s football fall of fame for more than a couple of decades. Steaua is arguably regarded worldwide as the representative club team of Romania.

   FC STEAUA BUCURESTI was founded following to a decree signed off by Mihail Lascar on the 7th of June 1947, on behalf of the National Ministry of Defense of Romania. In the summer of 1946, a few generals and high officers of the Romanian Army were seriously considering starting up a military club and an Army"s football team. A few months later, in the spring of 1947, their endeavors led to the formation of the so called "Sports Association of the Romanian Army".

   The first leader of the football team was also its skipper, Stefan Septville and the newly emerged team had its first ever training camp. Despite the  fact the new team had to take a play off for promoting to the second Division, it was brought up to the top Division, as a replacement for the team Carmen, which was excluded form the top football of Romania. The first coach of the team in its first season in the top Division was Coloman Braun-Bogdan.
   Soon the team was named CCA and won its first ever domestic title in Romania in 1951, under the helmet of Gheorghe Popescu, one of its honorary founding members.

   Between 1951 and 1961, CCA won 5 more domestic titles, till its name was changed to STEAUA, in the summer of 1961.
What did STEAUA bring as an innovation to Romanian football?
   Steaua has always promoted the skillful, free flowing and spectacular football, played at an amazing pace, which brought the nickname "The Speedsters" for the mid 80`s team . That STEAUA team became the first ever Eastern European club to win the highest trophy of the European Football, the "Cup of the European Championships" (or UEFA Champions League as it is known today).
   In the 1990?s, our club`s team won the domestic championship of Romania for 6 times and represented the country 3 times in a row in the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE competition.

   (In dark contrast to our Bucharest archrivals, Dinamo,) Our club has always fought tooth and nail against the so called "Cooperativa", an association of clubs which allegedly fixed games towards the mutual benefit of all the parties involved and brought a poor reputation to Romanian soccer in Europe, especially after the communism was abolished in our country (December 1989).
   All together, STEAUA BUCURESTI trophy cabinet is by far the richest in the country, as our team won 23 domestic titles, 20 National Cups and 5 Romania`s Supercups.  
  
Official Club info:
Name:       SC Fotbal Club Steaua SA
Address:    Blvd Ghencea nr.45, Sector 6 Bucharest
Telephone: (040) 021 411.46.56
Fax:      (040) 021 410.21.82
E-mail:      [email protected]
Official website: www.SteauaFC.com
Media contact:  [email protected]

Top Management:
Valeriu Argaseala - President
Iulian Ghiorghisor - Vicepresident
Adrian Ilie - Sports Manager

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Date tehnice (Tachnical Data) Inaugurat:             1974 (Build On) Renovat:                1996 (Renovated On) Locuri in stadion:  28.000, toate pe scaune Nocturna:              1400 lucsi/mp

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The STEAUA stadium is arguably the most fancy football arena in the whole country. Situated in the south-west of the capital city, Bucharest, in the “Ghencea” neighborhood, it is part of the sport complex with the same name. It is a typical football only ground, with no athletic track. The building was unveiled in April 1974, when our team drew level with a Serbian team, STEAUA- OFK Belgrade, 2-2. In the early 1990’s, the floodlighting was set up and the first game played with the arena fully lit was STEAUA-FC Bacau, 4-1, on the 14th of August 1991.
   Five years later, in 1996, the whole arena was fully refurbished, all the places are seated since then and the players’ hotel is a four star establishments, with all the facilities required.
   Our club stadium used to be the home ground of the Romanian national football team, which enjoyed here a great spell in the mid 90’s.
   All the STEAUA fans are deeply proud of our team stadium, as a high degree of comfort and safety is provided, so games can be played and watched at the highest standards, as the World and Europe governing football bodies, FIFA and UEFA respectively, demand from the top clubs.
   A closed circuit surveillance system is fully operational all the times. There are 7 fixed and 9 mobile cameras, which can follow all the fans and spectators right from the entry gates. Another surveillance camera system is installed and fully functional at the so called “Official Stand”, to be used by the security forces in emergency situations.

STEAUA stadium in facts and figures:

Unveiled in:                                                 1974
Fully refurbished and modernized:                   1996
Capacity:                                                     28.000, all seated
Floodlighting intensity:                                   1400 luces

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Tehnical Team Coach Massimo Pedrazzini Assistant coaches Mihai Teja Speriatu Andrei

Players Goalkeepers   1. Robinson Zapata Montano,  12. Cornel Cernea,  82. Cosmin Andrei Vatca Defenders   2. Emil Ducu Ninu,  3. Dorin Goian,  4. Pawel Golanski,  5. Ionut Rada,  6. Mirel Radoi,  13. Ifeanyi Emeghara,  15. Mihai Nesu,  17. Eugen Baciu,  18. Petre Marin,  24. Sorin Ghionea,  29. Valentin Badoi Midfielders   7. Eric Bicfalvi,  8. Ovidiu Petre,  14. Vasilica Cristocea,  16. Banel Nicolita,  20. Florin Lovin,  23. Mihaita Plesan,  26. Marius Croitoru Forwards   9. Valentin Badea,  10. Nicolae Dica,  19. Victoras Iacob,  25. Adrian Neaga,  30. Dorel Zaharia,  84. Romeo Surdu

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FC Steaua started this season Champions League campaign with a narrow defeat, 2-1 away to Slavia Prague. The goals were scored by Senkerik (min.13) and Belaid (min.63) scored for the hosts, while Dorin Goian got ours and is now the European top scorer for our club, level with Adrian Neaga, each on 8 goals. This is the press statement made by our coach Gheorghe Hagi after the game:

„I think we deserved more out of this game. We played well at times, we created a few chances, we had possession more then them. Both Cristocea and Iacob were not fully fit for the game though, same stands for Badea, who came on in the second half. At some stage I was really confident we can beat them, we were dominating the encounter and we were playing quite well. They managed to take their chances and sometimes football is unfair”.

„Slavia were really organized as a unit tonight, they played the same type of game against Ajax. Anyway, I think Steaua played some decent football tonight, the standard is the highest in Champions League, we could see two goals scored out of two scoring chances. In the last 20 minutes we played a lot with our heart, we wanted to achieve a lot, but ended up with nothing to take home. It was our first game in the group anyway, we lost by two goals to one, we could have done better, let us hope we shall win some games from now on.”
  
Gheorghe Hagi (He's on of the Football Legend in History of Romania.. (HAGI)

"In the past games we did not play very well and we got good results, but tonight we played some good football and we lost. We have had the upper hand for quite some time tonight, but they scored twice and we only got one goal, so we go home empty handed. It is for sure the games will only get tougher from now on in this competition, let us hope we shall get some results going our way.”

"I do not think this year we shall do just as bad as we did last year at home in this stage of the competition, we have learned a lot from that experience. We will not go down by three or four goals at home, we need our confidence and we shall play to win, especially with this bitter experience from tonight in this game.”
Florin Lovin

„I still believe we can make it from this group despite this poor start. We did a good game tonight on overall, but unfortunately we lost it. From now on we should be even more focused for each game and believe in ourselves a bit more.”

Victoras Iacob

„We did not deserve to lose the game tonight, we played quite well and at times, I thought we can win it, or at least that is what we felt on the pitch, many of us. We had the game in our hands, I think, but we could not sort it out for us. We need to look forward with confidence now.”

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