urban cluj: Începe campionatul de fotbal

Aug 1, 2009

Începe campionatul de fotbal

The new Romanian football/soccer Liga I season starts these days. The billboard says: "The Liga 1 begins! Hope, expectation, struggle... We live together the same feeling".

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AnonymousAugust 1, 2009 at 6:20 AM
What are the main teams in Cluj? The only Romanian team I can think of is Steaua Bucuresti.
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u.c.August 1, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Well, the major teams are CFR 1907 Cluj and Universitatea "U" Cluj. CFR Cluj is the only playing in Liga 1. They recently won the Romanian Supercup. Last year they finished first and produced a big sensation here. They did well in UEFA Champions League beating AS Rome and drawing to Chelsea London. The other team, U Cluj, is currently playing in Liga 2, but still having frantic supporters in the city, proud of their glorious haydays.
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Cluj is the third big city in Romania considering its population, with a general number of residents & commuters in its metro area of about 400,000.

It is largely known as the capital-city of the historical province of Transylvania - land of medieval citadels, wild crags, caves and forests, and the famous figure of Dracula.

Historically speaking Cluj was settled as a colony by the Romans (Colonia Aurelia Napoca) by the 2nd century CE, from where came the name of Napoca, and thereafter developed as fortress and city by the Hungarians, Saxons and Austrians - which conferred it the cultural, architectural, and urban influences of the multicultural Central Europe. Romanians, who constantly were the dominant rural population around the city, became the city rulers in 1918, when Transylvania became part of Romania, and developed it, especially within the Communist regime, after the 1947, by constructing large industries and working-class neighborhoods.

Along its history, Cluj acknowledged periods of progress and illuminism - sustained by a notable university and the medical and legal centers developed here already since the 16th century - together with warfare, nationalistic and religious troubles and stagnation - due to medieval invasions, far-right politics encouraging hostilities between Magyars and Romanians, and religious tensions between Greek-Catholics and Greek-Orthodoxs.

Today it is considered among the major hotbeds of development regarding the human capital in the region - due to its large number of university students, vibrant culture, safe social and economic environment, and perspectives for further development.

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Aug 1, 2009

Începe campionatul de fotbal

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