A project that has been talked about in recent years has taken shape. It is the construction of a state-of-the-art 1,600-seat grandstand at the Science Stadium, replacing the three rows of seats on the side facing the Faculty of Construction. Work has actually started. The total value of the investment is around 10 million euro, the beneficiary is the University Politehnica Timișoara and the funding is provided by the state…

Second day in a row with very sad news: this morning another famous Polis international of the 60s passed away. He is Cicerone Manolache (87). He was one of the most famous Romanian internationals in the first half of the 1960s. After making a name for himself as a coach, leading two national teams and winning the African Champions Cup, “Nea Cici”, as he was known, retired to small-sided football,…

The legendary Joseph Lereter passed away last night at the age of 90. Born on 23 July 1933 in Oțelu Roșu (Caras-Severin county), as Josef Leretter (later known as Iosif Lereter), he started playing football for the local team, Metalosport, in 1949. Between 1956 and 1967 he played for Știința/Politehnica Timișoara, and also attended university and became a mechanical engineer. He was part of the “Golden Team” of the Timisoara…

On Saturday, from 11am, Poli will play their first friendly of the winter. The opponent will be Millenium Giarmata, a League IV team, and the game will be played on the synthetic pitch of the Politehnica Base no. 2. Until 2019, the team from Giarmata played in League III. This season, they are in 9th place (out of 20 teams) in the Timis IV League, with 29 points from 19…

Politehnica Timisoara will meet on Monday, January 15, in preparation for the spring season. The meeting will take place from 11 am at the Dan Paltinisanu stadium. On Wednesday, the players have had their medical check-up.

We learn that Gheorghe Muresan (61) passed away on 27 December. He was a player for Politehnica Timișoara, in Division A, from 1984-1986. (In the 1984 “Sport” magazine, he was listed as Mihai). He was born on 22 April 1962 and grew up with the junior team of Olimpia Satu Mare, the club where he made his debut in the senior team and from where he transferred to Poli in…