Sports weekend

The latest from football, boxing and rugby

Florin Orban, 05.11.2021, 13:45

Romania’s football champions CFR Cluj Thursday night sustained a 2-nil
defeat by AZ Alkmaar, in a Europe Conference league Group D fixture. In Group D’s
other match, Randers FC drew against FK Jablonec, 2-all, on home turf. AZ
Alkmaar are at the top of the table in Group D, with 10 points, FK Jablonec are
the runner-up team, with 5, while third-placed are Randers FC, with 4 points.
CFR Cluj are 4th-placed, with 1 point.

Former
Romanian-Canadian boxer, Lucian Bute, for five years the IBF supper-middleweight
world champion, has been included in Quebec Sports Hall of Fame, for his most remarkable
feats in her career. Having become a world champion in 2007, this is practically the most important night for
me. Bute said, at the awarding ceremony. The Romanian-Canadian boxer’s career drew
to a close in March 219, when Bute was 39. No less than nine times did Bute
successfully defend his IBF supper-middleweight world title, over 2007 and
2012. As a professional, Bute’s record includes 32 wins, of which 25 are through
knockout and 5 defeats, of 2 were through Knockout.

In news
from rugby, a different venue has been decided for the test-match pitting Romania’s
national squad against the similar team of Uruguay, because of the sanitary
crisis, still ongoing in Romania. Scheduled for November 6 on Bucharest’s Triumphal
Arch stadium, the match will be played on the Pavanini Center stadium in Verona,
Italy, on November 7. The team from Uruguay have asked for the game to be hosted
by as safe a city as possible for their players’ well-being.

Football matches counting towards Romanian League One’s 15th
round are scheduled at the weekend. On Friday, Chindia Targoviste play Gaz Metan
Medias, while FC Arges take on FC Botosani. On Saturday, CS Mioveni face UTA
Arad and FCU Craiova are pitted against Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe. On Sunday,
Farul Constanta go against CS Universitatea Craiova Dinamo București face CFR
Cluj, and FC Voluntari take on FCSB. On Monday, in the 15th round’s closing
match, Academica Cliceni take on Rapid Bucharest. CFR Cluj are at the top of
the table, with 36 points, followed by FCSB, with 30, and CS Universitatea Craiova,
with 28 points.

(Translation by Eugen Nasta)