BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanias most successful soccer club is fighting to keep its name and military identity following a dispute with the army and a court
ruling that has taken away its colours.
Brook Lopez Jersey .Steaua Bucharest, the only Romanian team to win the European Cup and national champion a record 25
times, was forced into anonymity last week.Last Wednesday, a court ruling banned
the Romanian champion from keeping its emblem, name, colours and past
results.The team was identified only as hosts for Sundays 1-0 victory over CSMS
Iasi and played in a yellow strip instead of its usual red and blue.Hundreds of
fans shouted We are Steaua! before the match and others hoisted a banner saying
History lives through us!That history includes the communist era when the club,
founded as an army club in 1948, was supported by Valentin Ceausescu, the elder
son of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, who were executed in December 1989 during
the anti-communist revolt. Steaua won the European Cup in 1986, beating
Barcelona in a penalty shootout in the final.Red Star Belgrade is the only other
East European club to have won Europes premier club competition. It defeated
Marseille in 1991, also in a penalty shootout following a goalless draw.On
Monday, Romanias defence ministry agreed to a one week reprieve that allows the
club to continue using its military identity until December 15.That means Steaua
can use its name, emblem and colours when it plays Dinamo Kyiv in a Europa
League match in Bucharest on Thursday.The army is seeking millions of euros for
the rights which the owner says he cannot afford.Steaua is currently top of the
Romanian league, nine points ahead of second-placed CFR Cluj.Owner Gigi Becali
is in prison on corruption charges.
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outing, the team said. Fox was transported via ambulance to a Charlotte-area
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aortic valve Tuesday in North Carolina. Fox will remain in the state for two
weeks and miss a month to six weeks of the season, according to the report.
FoxSports.coms NFL reporter Jay Glazer said he spoke with Fox, who said he was
scheduled to have the procedure in the offseason but held off. Fox said his
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who are treating him. Additional information will be provided as it becomes
available." Fox was in North Carolina with the Broncos currently on their bye
week. The 58-year-old spent nine seasons as the head coach of the Carolina
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conclusion of the 2010 season. He was hired by the Broncos in January 2011 and
guided Denver to a 13-3 record and the top seed in the AFC playoffs during his
second season at the helm. Denver has gotten off to a 7-1 start in 2013 and
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