Ceahlaul Rapid 0-4 Ps Im back!

By: Vlad | October 6th, 2009

Mugurel Buga

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…

Rapid fans <a