{"id":122662,"date":"2022-06-03T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/sports-weekend-385-122662.html"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:22:51","slug":"sports-weekend-385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-weekend-385-id122662.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s basketball team U-BT Cluj-Napoca on Thursday won&#13;<br \/>\ntheir 4th consecutive domestic title. In the National League final, U-BT Cluj-Napoca&#13;<br \/>\ngrabbed an 85-74 away win against CSO Voluntari, in the fourth fixture pitting&#13;<br \/>\nU-BT against the Ilfov-based squad. U-BT won on aggregate, 3-1.&#13;<br \/>\nIn the debut game they played at home, U-BT won, 87-65. CSO Voluntari won the&#13;<br \/>\nsecond fixture, 74-69. Then U-BT Cluj-Napoca won both games they played in Voluntari,&#13;<br \/>\n92-84 and 85-74, respectively. We recall U-BT Cluj-Napoca were also title&#13;<br \/>\nholders in 2011, 2017 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Romania&#8217;s men&#8217;s national volleyball team this coming Saturday&#13;<br \/>\nplays an away game against Bosnia Herzegovina, in Tuzla. It is the fourth&#13;<br \/>\nfixture as part of the Silver League European Competition&#8217;s Group B. The Romanians&#13;<br \/>\nhad previously outclassed Albania in Tirana, 3-1. In Galati, in the east, the Romanian&#13;<br \/>\nnational team defeated North Macedonia, 3-2. Romania grabbed yet another win&#13;<br \/>\nagainst Bosnia-Herzegovina, 3-nil. In Group B, Romania is at the top of the&#13;<br \/>\ntable, with 8 points.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Romanian men&#8217;s national football team this coming&#13;<br \/>\nSunday makes its debut in a new edition of the Nations League. In Podgorica, Romania&#13;<br \/>\ntakes on Montenegro. The fixture counts towards the 3rd Group as&#13;<br \/>\npart of the Nations League&#8217;s second-tier League B. It is head-coach Edward&#13;<br \/>\nIord\u0103nescu&#8217;s debut game on the job. A 30-strong pool of regulars has been&#13;<br \/>\nsummoned, of which 5 footballers are first-timers in a national-level match. Defender&#13;<br \/>\nVlad Chiriches, currently signed up by the Italian team Sassuolo, boasts most caps&#13;<br \/>\nfor the national squad, 71. The Romanian international footballer Alexandru&#13;<br \/>\nMaxim, currently playing for Gaziantep, in Turkey, follows suit, with 52 caps.&#13;<br \/>\nThis coming Tuesday Romania plays Bosnia-Herzegovina, also away from home, in&#13;<br \/>\nZenica. The Romanian national squad&#8217;s next scheduled fixtures are the games&#13;<br \/>\nagainst Finland, on June 11 and against Montenegro, on June 14. Both matches are&#13;<br \/>\nto be played at home. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Romanian runner Claudia Bobocea on Sunday will compete&#13;<br \/>\nin the 1,500m race, in an athletics competition as part of the Diamond League&#13;<br \/>\ncircuit, to be hosted by the Moroccan capital Rabat. <\/p>\n<p>(EN)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest from basketball, men&#8217;s volleyball and football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":119726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[30081,29644,40395,41900,30113],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-122662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-fixture","tag-title","tag-volleyball"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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