Metaloglobus Bucharest was founded in 1956, as a team of the factory of the same name, a factory that produced… bullets and toys. Since 2011 it has been playing in the 3rd League, having been awarded a vacant place after losing the promotion play-off to that level. And in the summer of 2017 it was promoted to the second league for the first time. The group – one of the…

Politehnica Timisoara will play on Saturday in the 7th round, the last one in the play-out of the second league. The opponent will be Metaloglobus București, and the match will be played at the Știința stadium, from 11 am. Absent are Bocșan and Oanea (injured), Huminic (recovering), while the Finnish Tiihonen has been sent home on leave by the club. In the Group A standings, Poli is in 7th place,…

Today, Jackie Ionescu turns 87. Happy Birthday, Professor! Ion V. Ionescu was born on May 2, 1936, in Rudna (Timiș county) (“V.”, to be distinguished from Ion Ionescu, former striker of the ’67 champion Rapid). He played football, without playing in the first division. He started with Poli’s children, when he was only 9 years old, in 1945, the year of the end of World War II. He stayed at…

The junior teams of Politehnica Timisoara played matches in the national championships. The three biggest groups played away against similar teams of the University of Cluj. They were the last official matches of the season for the white-violet players in these age groups. In the Youth League, Poli drew, 0-0, against the team that won the series. In the standings, the white-violet coached by Cristian Petcu finished in 5th place,…

The guest of today’s “Tribuna polisportiva” show on Teleuniversitatea was Paul Codrea, coach of the Politehnica Timișoara football team. https://youtu.be/RbRkTssRVdI

At the beginning of May 1963 the new stadium of Timisoara was inaugurated in the south-east of the city. The stadium was named 1 May, a date that marked International Labour Day, an extremely important day in communist propaganda. (Later, after the 1989 Revolution, the stadium would be named Politehnica, Silviu Bindea, and from 1995, Dan Păltinișanu). Construction of the arena began in 1960, through patriotic work, and the capacity…