Rapid 2023 | It is the most important year in the history of Rapid Bucharest. Simply because it is year number 100, a legendary mark. Being at its end, now I will draw a line, split in three, all relevant, to determine if, from sporting perspective, it was a productive year or not. From all…
Category: Football
SUPER LEAGUE | Yes, we can and we must have something new in football!
Almost three years ago, from Florentino Perez, the idea of a European Super League of football, a closed one, only for big and wealthy clubs, emerged. Of course, such an intention from the chairman of the Europe’s most successful club, backed up by… well, um, FC Barcelona – that is a huge rivalry, no doubt!…
Frank Schmidt, the 20 year long process of a dream team: 1. FC Heidenheim 1846
“Heidenheim failed to win its first ever promotion in the Bundesliga, after losing to Stuttgart the play-off of promotion / relegation in 2023”, could have been a headline, if Heidenheim would have lost at Jahn Regensburg in the last week game of the 2. Bundesliga 2022-2023 season. Nine years after its first ever promotion in…
Union Berlin – a success story that reached the edge of the cliff
When I have visited Berlin for the first time, in 2017, in my three weeks spent there in September I have set some goals and many of them were related to football matches I wanted to attend. Hertha Berlin was the most known team back then, but I have learned that Union, from the East…
Albion Rrahmani – the story behind the arrival of the striker at Rapid Bucharest
In just two games, Albion Rrahmani of Kosovo scored four goals for Rapid Bucharest and had five more huge opportunities. But how did this 23-year-old guy end up in a championship like Romania’s? Because, honestly speaking, he’s the best piece of attacker that Liga 1 has in the last 20 years for sure. To score…
Rapid Bucharest 2022/2023 season – the milestone of one century
It is done. Year no. 100 from Rapid Bucharest’s history comes to an end with a big celebration, on 25th of June. First, though, let’s switch our attention to the competitional season that has just ended. A 5th spot in the table that looks acceptable, but in reality it is not the case, not only…
Marko Dugandzic, first Rapid Bucharest national top-scorer in 57 years
Marko Dugandzic is the guy that scored two consecutive hat-tricks (not necessary literally speaking…) for Rapid Bucharest on Giulesti stadium. The first one, against Sepsi was the fastest since 1972! 51 years ago. A good achievement, indeed. I am supporting Rapid for 24 years now and I have studied in depth, the club’s history, but…
What is the legacy of the FIFA World Cup 2022 from Qatar?
Hard question: what should be the legacy of the latest World Cup, the 2022 Qatar competition? It is a serious debate, and it cannot be resumed in a couple of words, so this is why I have waited for some time to pass to assess and order my thoughts as better as I could to…
Cristiano Ronaldo interview by Piers Morgan, explained – the ultimate joke
In the last week, the World Cup in Qatar took the second place, because the interview with Cristiano Ronaldo, held by Piers Morgan, covered the so-called football world almost entirely. Because it was such a one-of-a-kind event I have decided, on one of my runs, to listen to the whole 90 minutes and draw my…
Qatar World Cup 2022 – the land of hypocrisy
There is no previous World Cup and there will be no other in the future as debated like the World Cup from Qatar that is about to start on 20th of November 2022. The problem is that we all knew about this as early as December 2010, which means 12 years ago! Around six months…