Romanian Rugby

dragos03 · Apr 11, 2014

Superliga Round 3:

Steaua vs RCM Timisoara (April 12, 11:00 local time/8:00 GMT, live on TVR 2 and http://www.rugbytv.ro)
Probable teams: http://www.super-liga.ro/informatii-meci/?im=2083

CSM Bucuresti vs U Cluj (April 12, 15:00 local time/12:00 GMT, live on http://www.rugbytv.ro)
Probable teams: http://www.super-liga.ro/informatii-meci/?im=2085

Farul Constanta vs Dinamo (April 12, 15:00 local time/12:00 GMT, live on Neptun TV and http://www.rugbytv.ro)
Neptun TV have a live stream but I don't know if it works outside Romania: http://www.ntvonline.ro/articol/ntv-live
Probable teams: http://www.super-liga.ro/informatii-meci/?im=2087

sigesige00 · Apr 11, 2014

I have a question. In the former Eastern bloc, there were many general sport clubs including football and other sports. In Romania, there were Steaua, Rapid and Dinamo. Do these clubs have Rugby teams?

iINDOMINUSxx · Apr 11, 2014

this is great there was a russian rugby one and now romanian i like it thank you it would be great to have a georgian rugby thread

dragos03 · Apr 11, 2014

sigesige00 said:
I have a question. In the former Eastern bloc, there were many general sport clubs including football and other sports. In Romania, there were Steaua, Rapid and Dinamo. Do these clubs have Rugby teams?

As you can see in this topic, Steaua and Dinamo still have rugby teams and both are pro today. Rapid used to have a rugby team but it was never as good as the other two and doesn't exist any more.

sigesige00 · Apr 11, 2014

dragos03 said:
As you can see in this topic, Steaua and Dinamo still have rugby teams and both are pro today. Rapid used to have a rugby team but it was never as good as the other two and doesn't exist any more.

Thank you. Could you tell me any club selling their Rugby jersey?
And Romanians have a bad tradition--they do not write "Bucureşti" correctly. Romanians wirte "Bucuresti". (see the logos of Steaua and Dinamo)
I want a jersey with correct spelling of Bucureşti, or other city.

dragos03 · Apr 11, 2014

You can buy the jerseys of champion club RCM Timisoara here:
http://www.oneills.com/shop-by-team/rugby/rugby-union/timisoara-rugby-club.html

Romanians don't usually use the special characters on websites because it can lead to errors (btw, the name of the country also includes a special character: RomÃ¢nia).

sigesige00 · Apr 11, 2014

dragos03 said:
You can buy the jerseys of champion club RCM Timisoara here:
http://www.oneills.com/shop-by-team/rugby/rugby-union/timisoara-rugby-club.html

Romanians don't usually use the special characters on websites because it can lead to errors (btw, the name of the country also includes a special character: RomÃ¢nia).

Thank you for the URL.
I understand "special characters on websites can lead to errors", but that is irrelevant to club logos, because there is no possibility of errors.

Jayatron · Apr 11, 2014

ImScotty said:
this is great there was a russian rugby one and now romanian i like it thank you it would be great to have a georgian rugby thread

Agreed. Really enjoying this thread, and a Georgian one would be great.

sigesige00 · Apr 12, 2014

Could you tell me what "Rapid" means? Is this word from German (because there is a football club "Rapid Wien")?

dragos03 · Apr 12, 2014

It means "fast" or "quick". I'm pretty sure it's a word with Latin origins because it exists in Romanian, French, Spanish and Italian.

Rapid Bucharest was the club of the railway workers, later it became supported by the Ministry of Transport. But their rugby team was never very important because the railway workers had a much older and prestigious rugby club: Grivita Rosie. Grivita Rosie was founded in 1932 and has won the Romanian championship 11 times. In 1964 they have also won the European Champions Cup (an ancestor of the Heineken Cup), defeating French champs Mont de Marsan 10-0 in the final.

Da Grappla · Apr 12, 2014

I remember when I played rugby, no romanian tried to join us. Argentines, irish, italians, english...we even had a northamerican combo with an ontarian canadian and a guy from Colorado. However, when I trained judo or wrestling, there were always romanians (big, bad and means) around.

I say this because romanians are the biggest foreigner community in Spain..we're talking about almost a million.

P.D: it's funny for me reading romanian...I get 25-40% of what it's said. :lol:

iINDOMINUSxx · Apr 12, 2014

here Da Grappla may i ask you a question?

do you know much about spannish rugby ? if you do can you post up the same think as this tread because i got interested into spannish rugby since CÃ©sar Sempere moved to Northampton and i thought when i saw him play when he scored i thought he was good so it would be good to catch up to spannish rugby again.

im sure im not the only one which would have huge interest into spannish rugby

dragos03 · Apr 12, 2014

Da Grappla said:
I remember when I played rugby, no romanian tried to join us. Argentines, irish, italians, english...we even had a northamerican combo with an ontarian canadian and a guy from Colorado. However, when I trained judo or wrestling, there were always romanians (big, bad and means) around.

I say this because romanians are the biggest foreigner community in Spain..we're talking about almost a million.

P.D: it's funny for me reading romanian...I get 25-40% of what it's said. :lol:

I think there are a number of Romanians who play rugby in Spain. I noticed that Spain's U19 national team last year had 2-3 players of Romanian origin. But football will always be the king sport in both our countries.

I can also get the general meaning of texts in Spanish, even if there are many words that I don't understand

.

Btw, Romania and Spain will play against each other in the semifinal of the U18 European Championships. Today, Romania U18 defeated Germany U18 22-3. The tries were scored by Cristian Stratila, Andrei Iurea and Vladut Popa.

Superliga Round 3 results:

Steaua - RCM Timisoara 13-36 (6-19)
Tries: Ionut Dumitru/Paula Kinikinilau, Eugen Capatana, Vasile Rus (3), Randall Morrison
Conversions: Danut Dumbrava/Valentin Calafeteanu (3)
Penalties: Danut Dumbrava (2)/-

CSM Bucuresti - U Cluj 29-12 (14-7)
Tries: Florin Surugiu, Daniel Statulescu (2), Andrei Filip/Razvan Ailenei, Ionut Mazare
Conversions: Andrei Filip (3)/Ionut Dimofte
Penalties: Andrei Filip/-

Farul Constanta - Dinamo 21-12 (14-0)
Tries: Robert Neagu, Eseria Vueti/Mihai Adascalitei, Andrei Cristea
Conversions: Florin Vlaicu/Teodor Nitu
Penalties: Florin Vlaicu (2), Eugene Jantjies/-

sigesige00 · Apr 13, 2014

Could you tell me about Rugby League in RomÃ¢nia?

dragos03 · Apr 13, 2014

League does not exist in Romania at all.

Da Grappla · Apr 13, 2014

ImScotty said:
here Da Grappla may i ask you a question?

do you know much about spannish rugby ? if you do can you post up the same think as this tread because i got interested into spannish rugby since CÃ©sar Sempere moved to Northampton and i thought when i saw him play when he scored i thought he was good so it would be good to catch up to spannish rugby again.

im sure im not the only one which would have huge interest into spannish rugby

I'm not much into spanish rugby, but I could open that thread within a couple of weeks

dragos03 said:
I think there are a number of Romanians who play rugby in Spain. I noticed that Spain's U19 national team last year had 2-3 players of Romanian origin. But football will always be the king sport in both our countries.

I can also get the general meaning of texts in Spanish, even if there are many words that I don't understand .

Btw, Romania and Spain will play against each other in the semifinal of the U18 European Championships. Today, Romania U18 defeated Germany U18 22-3. The tries were scored by Cristian Stratila, Andrei Iurea and Vladut Popa.

Makes much sense to see romanian-spaniards (Are we in the roman empire again or what?

) U20 because the main problem of spanish rugby has, is players start out at late age. I could train the sport after moving to Madrid from my Canary Islands. It was a sport barely played outside universities, so the under 20 must come either from the few little rugby strongholds like Valladolid and Basque Country or private schools like Licees FranÃ§aises in the main cities.

Those teenage romanians had a background rarely found among the spaniards. Tall people here focus in basketball and big people in handball.

iINDOMINUSxx · Apr 13, 2014

Da Grappla said:
I'm not much into spanish rugby, but I could open that thread within a couple of weeks

i think that will be great if you did

sigesige00 · Apr 13, 2014

dragos03 said:
League does not exist in Romania at all.

If so the RLIF officials should travel to RomÃ¢nia to establish RL!

Jayatron · Apr 13, 2014

I have a question for you dragos03. How do the Romanian Union pay for the professional league? Crowds are not massive at all?

Da Grappla · Apr 13, 2014

What is the actual popularity of the sport there? It's easy to find where to train, to watch, etc? What crowd would be gathered if Romania played against a Tier 1 team lika...let's be said, Ireland?

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