Well we can finally say the transfer saga of this player has found itself an ending, Mircea Bornescu has canceled his contract with Universitatea Craiova and signed a 2 year contract with Rapid earning 200k per year, details in the resegnation of his contract with Craiova have finally been decided and met. Mircea Bornescu payed the club his wages for the rest of the year if he was to stay at Universitatea Craiova, and Rapid payed Craiova 100k euros now, and will finish with 400k euros in the January transfer window.

Some Interesting facts about Mircea Bornescu:

Mircea Bornescu was born the 5th of March 1980, he joined Craiova when he was at the age of 25 (now he is 29) 4 years ago in 2005, going on to make 94 apperances for his team scoring 12 goals! (11 from penalty kicks and one of a corner) Not only will he bring more experience to the team but he will direct the back 4 prety good too.

If you’re not already bored watch this video from youtube about Rapid in their glorius uefa cup run in their 2005-2006 season:

Hello guys! Dam Its so good to be back in the vacinity of this blog. I have been training this whole summer in the Netherlands at Fc Utrecht’s academy and i was unable to post for the Rapid Bucharest offside. I have been around theoffside, just not bloging…

But enough about me, lets talk about Rapid… Rapid finished a largely dissapointing campaign last year in 8th place and their was to be major changes for Rapid in the summer.

Jao Paolo Andrade moved on back to Porto after his loan spell, not because Rapid didn’t want him but because we couldn’t afford him… He ended up signing a new 4 year deal with RC Lens in France, and all the Rapid supporters wish him good luck.
Radomir Djalovic went back to his former club Riejka on a season loan, as he did not live up to his high transfer fee of 2m euros, and Claudio Pitbul went back to Fc Porto after his loan spell finished. We also sold Elinton Andrade to Olympique Marseile for 400k euros and Nicolae Grigorie has moved on to Brasov on a free transfer. The economic turmoil that we find ourself unfourtenatly in has affected Rapid the most this season as we had to bring up some youngsters to the first team to make up for the players who left in the summer. Youngsters like Alexandru Ionita, Catalin Paun, and Lucian Raduta have benefited from this and I have to say they have lived up to their expectetions!

Mugurel Buga has come back to Rapid after a dissapointing loan spell at Fc Brasov, but don’t worry he has already scored 7 goals this season for us, and he is getting back to the form we knew him to be in the years before. Rapid made two summer signings, Helder Da Silva a Brazilian right back on a season loan for As Nancy, and Darijan Matic a 26 year old defensive midfielder. Both have been outstanding so far for Rapid might I add.

Okie dokie enough sayd on that…

This is the Rapid Squad, it is coached by Viorel Hizo (this is his 6th spell at Rapid as coach). Also we are really close to signing Mircea Bornescu, the Universitatea Craiova Goalkeeper, who is a very experienced at the job mind you…

Rapid started the campaign off with a league win at home against Poli Iasi (4-1), then lost to Unirea Urziceni (0-1) and Timisoara (0-1) both away games. We beat Alba Iulia 2-0 at home than lost to Astra Ploiesti 3-1 away, than we beat Vaslui 3-2 at home and followed that up with a nerve racking 4-3 win against Craiova away from home, the last two results Rapid had before this Internatinal breake, 4-0 at home against International Curtea de Arges and 4-0 again away from home against Ceahlaul. Oh and I almost forgot we advanced in the Romanian Cup Round of Sixteen tie against Fc Bihor away from home winning 2-0.

This is the League Table and wait for it, wait for it, WE ARE FIRST IN THE LEAGUE, and might I add that the team who finishes in first place at the end of the season goes directly in the champions League! Ok, ok its not the end of the season but what the hell! Mugurel Buga leads the team in scoring with 7 goals, Herea has 5 and Spadacio (our top scorer last year with 17 goals) has 3 on the campaign.

Ok… Our next match is agianst Cfr Cluj, our first real test of the season, I will have the preview post for the game sometime next week, hang in there guys for the big derby!

Of course I expet a full capacity stadium of hooligans for this one…

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Boy did we need the 3 points on offer today, but first I want to apologize for the lack of posts. After we lost 2-0 at home agains Poli AEK Timisoara and then we tied 1-1 against Unirea Urziceni. We can know only hope for a 3rd place finish which would be good for an Uefa Europa League spot, and ultimetaly an apperance in Europe. We are in huge financial turmil, but the team is holding out strong, and we really have to praise them for that.

Match Report

Spadacio opened the scoring for us and took his taly to 11 goals this season (which is the league’s top), we doubled our lead on 53 minutes when Stefan Grigorie rifled in from 35 yards, Brasov pulled one back on 84 minutes and we finished the contest with Nicolae Grigorie scoring from close range.
I gotta tell you though we controlled the match from start to finish, even though Brasov has the lowest goals conceded in Liga 1, pretty good for a team who was in Liga 2 just last year.

These 3 points put us 5th in the table, 4 points away from 4th place CFR Cluj, and 3rd place POLI AEK Timisoara. Again I apologize for the lack of posts.

Forza Rapid!!!
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We have a very difficult test tommorow at home against Timisoara, not only did they beat us in the first half of the season but without their six point deduction they could have lied in first place. I still cant get that 3-0 loss to Dinamo out of my mind, I mean their stadium is smaller than a division 3 stadium in England and the sad part about it is that if they win the tittle they go directly in the champions league.

This is where we stand As you can see we now lie in 6th place behind Dinamo, Urziceni (who won their game at strugling Gloria Buzau 5-1), CFR Cluj (who won their game at Poli Iasi 1-0), and Timisoara. On another note Panduri beat Steaua 2-0, if that isn’t pathetich than i don’t know what is.

Team News

We have a full squad for the game against Timisoara except for Marius Constantin who is suspended.
Lineups: (aka blind guess)

For Rapid: Andrade in goal, Maftei, Ricardo Fernades, Stefan Mardare, Cesinha, Spadacio, Lazar, Jao Paolo Andrade, S.Grigorie and Djalovic as our lone stricker.
Im not gonna waste my time with Timisoara’s line up, but all I can say is the game is wednesday april 7, at at 12 noon Eastern time. Gsp has rights to this game, myp2p.eu, and cool-tv.net have this streams.

Prediction?
1-0 for us, I don’t care who scores it.

I hope our fans will guide us to victory, as we all sing ole ole ola….

Today in beautifull Bucharest, Dinamo defetead Rapid with 3 goals to nil.
We played like shit, they played good. The fuck with ever thinking we could win the tittle.

Marian Rada then saying after the match:

“Their is now 8 points between us and Dinamo, we can no longer hope to win the tittle”

We lie in 5th place after that pathetich loss. Thats all. Muie Dinamo.. Forza Rapid!

After demoloshing Otelul Galati 4-0 and getting some revenge on them, its time to think about the game against Dinamo. But first lets look at the table and see where we stand.
So if you havent already seen it we are 5 points behind dinamo and 1 point behind Unirea Urziceni, so I consider this a do or die game for our tittle hopes. If it wasnt for the crapy reffeeres that are reefing in this beautifull game we wouldnt be so behind.

Team News

It would look like we are gonna start with a 4-5-1 formation with Andrade in goal, Maftei, Ricardo Fernandes Marius Constantin, and Vladimir Bozovic as our 4 defenders (from right to left). Then with Cesinha (if not still injured then Stefan Grigorie), Spadacio, Lazar, Jao Paolo Andrade, and Ovidiu Herea. Stricker is Djalovic.

I dont really care how dinamo starts, but all I know is that their defense is absolutely horrible, and their attack is awesome. We beat them late on 2-1 on our home turf after they took the lead, everything in me says that this is gonna be a draw, bu the hell with that! What the hell is football if you dont win? I guess Ive always been the optimistic one, so I say 1-0 for us, the good guys…

Teeve?
If you are Romanian you should know, if not usually myp2p.eu, not Atdhe.net for some reason…
The match is on saturday april 4 at 2pm est, after the international break.

I leave you guys with a pic, of our fans running riot, (again) lol…

How often do you see a player deny a penalty given to them? How often do you see it it the Romanian League? Well Im glad to say I have seen it at least once in my life. And it hapened to be a player from my favorite club in the “so-called” ragged Romanian Liga 1….

In the 63rd minute of the game Rapid-Otelul Galati (FT: 4-0), it was 2-0 for Rapid and Otelul Galati’s Bourceanu had adjudged to have fouled Costin Lazar of Rapid in the box, replay’s showing Bourceanu getting the whole ball.

Lazar’s teammate Juliano Spadacio had this to say:

I wanted to see if Lazar would have done that at 0-0 for us, I wouldnt have recognized it as not a penalty if I were him.

Lazar then saying after the match:

I think its normal that if it is not a penalty for us that we shouldn’t take advantage of these things because we dont want to get helped by anyone.

And then former Rapid Buchatrest and actual coach of Shaktar Donestk, Mircea Lucescu said:

I don’t know about Lazar, but I do know Cornel Dinu who, at 0-0 for his team Dinamo, in the Romanian cup final against Steaua refused a penalty for his side because the referee got it wrong.

While some people doubt him, I praise the young lad, and if more people like Costin Lazar do this extreme act of fairplay, we might just might be able to save whats left of this game that has gone to racism and random acts of violence.