Anthem?

ROMANIA Federatia Romana de Fotbal Bd. Poligrafiei 3, Sector 1 71556 Bucuresti Official Website COOL! English available

Personally, I don't think they'll do that well - depends on Ilie

SQUAD

Goalkeepers Bogdan Stelea Bogdan Lobont Florin Prunea

Defenders Cosmin Contra Gheorghe Popescu Iulian Filipescu Liviu Ciobotariu Miodrag Belodedici Iulian Miu Stefan Nanu Cristian Chivu

Midfielders Dan Petrescu Catalin Haldan Ionut Lupescu Marius Maldarasanu Costel Galca Eric Linkar Laurentiu Rosu Dorinel Munteanu Catalin Munteanu Gheorghe Hagi

Strikers Florentin Petre Viorel Moldovan Adrian Mutu Adrian Ilie Ionel Ganea

GROUP MATCHES
Liege 12.6.2000 (18.00) Romania v Germany 1-1	Arnhem 17.6.2000 (18.00) Romania v Portugal 0-1	Charleroi 20.6.2000 (20.45) Romania v England 3-2

ROMANIA QUALIFY FOR THE QUARTER FINALS (lose 2-0 against Italy)

EURO 2000 TEAM STATISTICS
Team Stats
Games Played:	4
Red Cards :	1
Yellow Cards :	11
Shots On Target :	19
Shots Off Target :	31
Fouls Committed :	60
Fouled :	55
Corners Won :	28
Corners Against :	5

Player Stats
Goalkeepers
Player		Minutes Played	Goals Conceded	Clean Sheets	Shots Saved	Penalties Saved	Shootout Saves	Shootout Goals Conceded
1	Bogdan Lobont	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Bogdan Stelea	360	6	0	8	0	0	0
21	Florian Prunea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Outfield
Player		Minutes Played	Goals Scored	Assists	Red Cards	Yellow Cards	Shots on Target	Shots off Target	Fouls Committed	Fouls Against
2	Dan Petrescu	244	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	3
3	Liviu Ciobotariu	180	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1
4	Iulian Filipescu	360	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	4
5	Constantin Galca	315	0	0	0	0	0	6	8	5
6	Gheorghe Popescu	210	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	0
7	Adrian Mutu	197	0	0	0	0	1	3	6	5
8	Dorinel Munteanu	360	1	0	0	0	2	4	1	6
9	Viorel Moldovan	299	1	2	0	0	4	5	6	4
10	Gheorghe Hagi	223	0	0	1	3	3	4	5	6
11	Adrian Ilie	241	0	1	0	2	4	2	2	6
13	Christian Chivu	360	1	0	0	1	1	1	9	4
14	Florentin Petre	116	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	3
15	Ioan Lupescu	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
16	Laurentiu Rosu	35	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
17	Miodrag Belodedici	150	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
18	Ioan Ganea	73	1	0	0	0	1	2	2	2
19	Eric Linkar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Catalin Haldan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Cosmin Contra	201	0	0	0	2	0	2	4	3

ROMANIA : Hard to figure. A bright start and some lovely neat soccer played through midfield, especially Hagi early on. But dodgy defending hurt, and a change in attitude in the second half proved discouraging and ineffective. The match was there for them to win, but the killer instinct was out to lunch; they cravenly settled for a point. Why? They certainly will be on the rack against Portugal, and England have a France 98 score to settle also. Where do they think the points are going to come from? Perhaps it is all for the better now as they will have to attack vigorously, and therein lies their strength. A less promising outfit than I thought before the tournament.

(Seamus Malin, www.fuxito.com)

Sing-a-long-a-anthem Desteapta-te, Romane (Awaken Thee Romanian) Awaken thee, Romanian, shake off the deadly slumber The scourge of inauspicious barbarian tyrannies And now or never to a bright horizon clamber That shall to shame put all your raucous enemies. It's now or never to the world we readily proclaim In our veins throbs an ancestry of Roman And in our hearts for ever we glorify a name Resounding of battle, the name of gallant Trojan Do look imperial shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvinus At the Romanian nation, your mighty progeny With arms like steel and hearts of fire impetuous It's either free or dead, that's what they all decree Priests, rise the cross This Christian army's liberating The word is freedom, no less sacred is the end We'd rather die in battle, in elevated glory Than live again enslaved on our ancestral land

ROMANIAN TV DINNER Apple pie with rum 500g apples, 6 eggs, 1 tbs sugar, 150g butter, 150g vanilla sugar, 100g flour, 2 tbs rum, 50g almonds, breadcrumbs for dusting the baking dish Clean and peel the apples and grate them into a bowl. Then sprinkle one tablespoon of sugar and the rum over the top of the apples. Beat the egg yolks in a bowl, together with the butter and the vanilla sugar and then add the flour in a steady stream, making sure you mix it well to avoid leaving lumps. Then add the apples, and the almonds which should be blanched and finely chopped. When it has been mixed well, fold in the egg whites (which should be beaten to somewhere between soft and stiff peaks). Butter a pan and dust it with a sprinkling of plain breadcrumbs. Add the batter, and cook on a medium heat for about an hour. Turn it out of the pan and serve it warm with a fruit syrup. Wash down with Regun beer

LANGUAGE Goal: Gol Offside: Ofsaid Penalty: Lovitura te la unsprezece metri ('kick from 11 metres') Foul: Foulta INSULT: "Du-te Dracului!" (Go to hell!)