The Court of Arbitration in Sport (whose decision are final) yesterday ruled in favour of Romanian football club FC Timisoara, who had been deducted six points by the Romanian FA (on Fifa’s instruction) earlier in the season for a technicality regarding the name of the club. The six points leapfrog Timisoara over Dinamo Bucharest, and into second place in the final Romanian first division table (behind champions Urziceni), meaning that Timisoara will now enter the third qualifying round for the Champions League. Dinamo will have to make do with the non-entity that is the Europa League, the worthless, pointlessly rebranded UEFA Cup – a competition for teams not good enough for the Champions League.
Bankruptcy now beckons for Dinamo. Wonderful.
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What is it that you have against Dinamo?! Actually I support Dinamo and the only bad thing about this team is that they don't have a stadium!
They made lots of investments in the last season and ended up 3rd because they were stupid enough as not to name a foreign coach. Other teams who don't cost 2 lei will go to the CL and concede 6 goals per game (wanna bet?).
This is stupid, I won't be watching Urziceni in CL next season! And if Dan Petrescu goes away I hope the team will be banned by UEFA, it's better with no team than with Unirea Urziceni!