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Romanian League One's final configuration for the upcoming season has been decided on Thursday. In the promotion/maintaining playoff tie, FC Voluntari outclassed Dunarea Calarasi. We recall that in the second leg of the tie FC Voluntari trounced Dunarea on home turf, 4-nil. Scoring for Voluntari were the Czech Lukas Droppa, the Spaniard Jefte Betancor, Igor Armaş and Cosmin Achim, who turned a penalty kick into a goal. In the first leg in Calarasi, Voluntari also emerged as winners, 2-1. In the previous season, Dunarea came in 4th in according to the Second league's Group1 rankings. FC Voluntari came in 7th according to League One's Group 2 classification. On Wednesday and also in a League One playoff fixture, CS Mioveni secured an aggregate win against FC Hermanstadt, with a 2-1 away win in Medias and a blank draw at home. In the previous season, CS Mioveni came in 3rd according to League Two's Group1 rankings. Mioveni are the first second-tier team to have won a promotion/maintaining playoff tie in League One. We recall that so far, only League One teams have had the upper hand in such  confrontations. At the end of the season, FC Hermannstadt have been relegated to League Two. Politehnica Iasi and Astra Giurgiu, two bottom-of-the table teams in League One, have also been relegated to League Two. The Second League's first two teams in descending order, FCU Craiova and Rapid Bucharest, have been promoted to League One.


The headline-hitting event at the weekend is the friendly match pitting the national squad of Romania against England. The venue of the game will be a stadium in Middlesbrough in England. The Brits are still preparing for the European Football championship, which is drawing near. We recall that our national squad failed to qualify to the event. Ahead of the friendly against England, the Romanians are trailing a recent unnerving, 1-2 defeat by Georgia behind them. Georgia is 91st-placed according to the world rankings. Sports media at home has heavily criticized the national squad's below-par run in the match against Georgia. Head-coach Mirel Radoi also came under fire for the faulty way in which he prepared the team and composed the starting lineup. A satisfactory result in England could ease the tension that has occurred among the team and among board members of the Romanian Football Federation, where president Razvan Burleanu as of late has been highly contested because of the National squad's disappointing results in recent confrontations.



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