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Florin Orban, 10.03.2022, 13:45

Romanian men’s basketball team CSM CSU Oradea Wednesday
night in Aaarhus sustained an 82-84 away defeat by Danish opponents Bakken Bears.
The fixture counted towards the first leg of the FIBA
Europe Cup’s quarterfinals. The return leg will be hosted by the Antonio Alexe sports hall in Oradea, on March 16. Initially,
CSM CSU Oradea’s quarterfinal opponents was Turkish team Bahceşehir Koleji, but
the schedule was changed because Russian team Avdotor Saratov was excluded from
the competition,

In news from men’s handball, Dinamo Bucharest sustained
a 29-34 away defeat by Polish opponents Lomza Vive Kielce Wednesday night. It was Dinamo Bucharest’s last match counting towards the Champions League’s
Group B. With 8 points on its record sheet and on a par with bottom-of-the table
team Motor Zaporoje, Dinamo Bucharest thus ended its Champions League’s trail being
7th-placed, the last-but-one position in Group B. The first two
teams in descending order secure their straight qualification to the
quarterfinals. The 3rd, the 4th and the 5th-placed teams will have
to compete in playoff fixtures to advance to the League’s quarterfinals.

In the second round of the WTA 1000 Indian Wells
tournament, an event with 8,500,000 USD in prize money all told, the Romanian
tennis players, 24th-seeded Simona Halep and 26th-seeded Sorana
Cirstea take on Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova, and
Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia, respectively.

Dinamo Bucharest football club has reached an agreement
with Czech head-coach Dušan Uhrin junior. Uhrin will replace the Romanian Flavius
Stoican. The Czech head-coach arrived in Bucharest on Wednesday and has already
run an ice-breaking session for his trainees. We recall Dušan
Uhrin junior had been at the helm of Dinamo before, once, during the 2019-2020
competition season and for a second time around, in 2021. Among the teams Dušan
Uhrin junior had been at the helm of, before, there are Bohemians Prague, Mlada
Boleslav, AEL Limassol, Dinamo Tbilisi, Viktoria Plzen, Dinamo Minsk, Slavia
Prague, Politehnica Timişoara, CFR Cluj and Gaz Metan Mediaş. With Flavius
Stoican at the helm, Dinamo ended the regular season on the 14th-position
and will enter Group 2 with 9 points on its record sheet. In its debut match
with Uhrin at the helm, Dinamo travels to Mioveni in the south, for an away
fixture against Rapid Bucharest.

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