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- After a ruling by Romania’s highest court, Steaua Bucharest, the country’s most popular and well-known football team, was stripped of their name, colours and emblem. Founded in 1947 as an army side, it lost a battle over its trademark with the Romanian defence ministry.
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Dec 15, 2014 · After a ruling by Romania’s highest court, Steaua Bucharest, the country’s most popular and well-known football team, was stripped of their name, colours and emblem. Founded in 1947 as an army...
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Steaua Bucharest is Romania’s greatest export. To a western world obsessed by football, Steaua isRomania, or at least it was. For people like me, the blue and red stripes are a portal to cultural learning, sport possessing a timeless ability to conjure intrigue where otherwise insouciance would lurk. To understand Steaua Bucharest is to delve into ...
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A childhood supporter of Dinamo Bucharest, the sworn enemy of Steaua, Becali built great personal wealth in real estate, often drawing suspicion for unconventional deals. One transaction in particular led to his downfall, a sale of land to the Romanian army deemed illegal because he didn’t actually own the plot initially. In 2013, Becali was handed...
In 2011, Becali clashed with the army regarding exorbitant rent he was forced to pay at the dilapidated Ghencea Stadium. Perhaps in retaliation, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) asked Becali to produce documentation proving his ownership of Steaua and its associated imagery. When no paperwork was forthcoming, the MoD sued FC Steaua București, claiming...
A new club crest was unveiled in January 2015, an eight-sided star featuring the letters FCSB. It was hideous, resembling a rushed attempt at rekindling the mystique of Steaua using Windows Paint. The club limped on through this strained existence for more than two years as influential fan groups boycotted and upstart clubs such as Astra Giurgiu, V...
The Army continues to own the sports society, named CSA Steaua București. The football department, however, separated and turned private in 1998, owned and financed by a non-profit organization called AFC Steaua București, chaired by businessman Viorel Păunescu.
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Steaua București is a Romanian professional football club. It is the most successful team in Romania, being the only one from a communist country to have won the European Cup, which it did in 1986. The original football team was founded in 1947 as ASA București and belonged to the Ministry of National Defence, through the namesake sports club.
Dec 8, 2014 · Officials at defence ministry allow Steaua an extra week to use name after court ruling says club, established as army side in 1947, have lost their right to use military identity.
Jul 13, 2015 · As they had in the previous round, Steaua regrouped and destroyed Honved 4-1 in the home leg in Bucharest. In a surprisingly tight quarter final against Kuusyi of Finland, an eighty-sixth minute goal from Victor Piturca sealed the second leg, and the tie.
