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Profile
<\/STRONG>
The captain of Romania's most successful club, FC Steaua Bucure\u015fti, since 2003, Mirel R\u0103doi has also served his country with distinction for many years. He has had injury problems over the past couple of seasons which is the chief reason why the classy utility player only featured in two of Romania's UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying ties.

Made his debut in Romania's top division with FC Extensiv Craiova in March 2000 before Steaua snapped him up a few months later.

His first coach at Steaua was Victor Pi\u0163urc\u0103, under whom he won the league title in his first season at club.

Rapid rise accelerated by international debut in December 2000 and impressive presence in 2002 FIFA World Cup campaign – made competitive debut in 2-0 home defeat by Italy but won the four other qualifying matches he played in.

Made eight appearances in UEFA EURO 2004 preliminaries, scoring first international goal in 7-0 win v Luxembourg.

Further titles, with Steaua in 2005 and 2006; also skippered team to 2005\/06 UEFA Cup semi-finals.

Missed entire 2007\/08 UEFA Champions League with knee injury, having made only two appearances in 2006\/07 competition – also because of injury.

Did you know?<\/STRONG>

Charismatic Steaua owner Gigi Becali acted as R\u0103doi's godfather when he got married.<\/P>","435426036942DBEA7AAF62FDF12D923A":"Stadionul Ion Oblemenco","A1A3C2B16933D2932CAA0F59CAFD2D37A7D990F044C6143D":"1948-9-5","168A56ED2BB242F4":"","DF1F83E13127F6C1":"Mirel Radoi","906FE566EA5D5A060738EC206CB55DB7":"Bulevardul \u0218tirbei Vod\u0103 36, Craiova","2CED97379BA5D88CE40611752FB01FA2":"","9AF366BFF83B51E6BE6603E9444757A4":"DOMESTIC

<\/U>Leagues<\/STRONG>

Liga I<\/STRONG>
Winners (4): 1973–74, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1990–91
Runners-up (3): 1972–73, 1981–82, 1982–83

Liga II<\/STRONG>
Winners (2): 1963–64, 2013–14
Runners-up (1): 1960–61

Liga III
<\/STRONG>Winners (1): 1957–58

Cups
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Cupa Romaniei<\/STRONG>
Winners (6): 1976–77, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1990–91, 1992–93, 2017–18
Runners-up (2): 1974–75, 1984–85

Supercupa Romaniei
<\/STRONG>Runners-up (1): 2018","E7D2F501BA5F9F82CBF994866126F3A8":"

U Craiova 1948 Club Sportiv, commonly known as Universitatea Craiova (Romanian pronunciation: U Craiova, or CS U Craiova, is a Romanian a professional football team based in Craiova, Dolj County, currently playing in the Liga I, the top tier of the Romanian football league system.

It was founded in 1948 as the football section of the CSU Craiova sports club, of which it was originally part of until 1991. During that period, it had won 4 national titles and 5 national cups. For the next two decades, its tradition was taken further by FC U Craiova, which was reorganised several times and retroactively deemed as an unofficial successor. In 2013, the sports club refounded the football department, which claimed to be the continuation of the original Universitatea Craiova; this has since been backed up by court orders and the Liga Profesionist\u0103 de Fotbal, however the record is still being disputed with the FC U entity. In 2018, "the White-Blues" won the Cupa României, representing their first trophy following the refoundation.

On the European stage, Universitatea Craiova's best performances are reaching the semi-finals of the 1982–83 UEFA Cup and the quarter-finals of the 1981–82 European Cup. They were the first Romanian team to reach the semi-finals of a UEFA tournament and remain the only one to have knocked out at least one club from each of five strongest countries in European football: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

"The Students" play their home matches at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco, which has a capacity of 30,929. Craiova holds several rivalries, the most notable being the one with Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti.<\/P>","e_index":4};