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Florin Orban, 28.03.2022, 13:45

We start with football. Coach Edward Iordănescu started with a defeat at the helm of the Romanian national football team. On Friday, in Bucharest, the Romanian footballers were defeated 1 – 0 by the Greek national team, in a friendly match. The only goal of the match was scored by Andreas Bouchalakis, in the 39th minute. Playing for the first time for the national eleven were Octavian Popescu, from FCSB, and Radu Drăguşin, who is under a contract with Juventus Turin and was borrowed by Salernitana.

The campaign to prepare for the League of Nations matches continues on Tuesday, with a friendly match with the Israeli team, scheduled for Netanya. Two of the main members of the Romanian team, Alexandru Maxim and Mario Camora, will miss this game, as announced on Sunday by the Romanian Football Federation. Maxim was severely affected by a respiratory virus infection, and Camora suffered from muscle problems. The two join four other footballers, namely Răzvan Marin, Alexandru Mitriţă, Deian Sorescu and Florin Tănase, who left the training program and isolated themselves, after having tested positive for Covid-19 the day following the match with Greece.

Now news from tennis. Romania was left without representatives at the WTA 1000 tennis tournament in Miami, with prizes up for grabs worth 8,300,000 dollars. The last Romanian in the competition, Irina Begu, was defeated, in the third round, by the Belarusian Aleksandra Sasnovici, with 7-5, 6-7, 6-4, on Saturday, after three hours of play. In the second round, Begu had passed the main favorite of the tournament, Arina Sabalenka, also from Belarus.

Let’s move on to women’s handball. Minaur Baia Mare has taken a big step towards the semifinals of the European League. On Saturday, the Maramures team defeated, at home, in the first round of the quarterfinals, the Norwegian team Sola, 40 to 32. The second round will be played on Sunday, in Stavanger. In the previous edition, Minaur hosted the tournament, which included the semifinals and the final of the competition, ranking 3rd. In another game from the first leg of the quarterfinals, played on Sunday, SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea was defeated, at home, by the Danish team Herning – Ikaast with the score 39-33. The return game will take place on Saturday in Denmark.

Romania’s national rally champion, Simone Tempestini, was ranked 4th on Sunday in the Azores Rally, the second stage of the European Rally Championship. According to the Romanian Motor Sports Federation, Tempestini achieved Romania’s best result in the modern era of the European Rally Championship. (LS)

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