What did the Sports Gazeta write 20 years ago about Cristina Neagu »who was the favorite athlete and what dreams had
Article by Roxana Fleşeru – published on Sunday, June 08, 2025, 13:06 / Updated Sunday, June 8, 2025 13:07
Cristina Neagu (36 years old) puts an end to her career With a big day show at the Multipurpose Hall in Bucharest, where he invited former colleagues to say goodbye to a familiar setting. In 2005, the handball player was at the beginning of the road, and the Sports Gazette visited it in the apartment in which he grew up, on which occasion he talked about his passion for handball, but also for football.
On September 3, 2005, the Sports Gazette dedicated a material to Cristina Neagu, at that time a 17 -year -old teenager. Only what he had returned from the European Junior Championship, where he had climbed the second step of the podium and where the tournament player had been declared.
Under the signature of Marian Ursescu, the material introduces us to the Universe of Cristina at that time. QIn his room in the parents' apartment, on one of the walls, the handball player held his medals, cups and diplomas received until that age. Dressed in a creamy and low-waisted jeans, Cristina proudly showed her silver medal conquered in Austria. In other photographs of that day, kept in the Archive of the Sports Gazette, you can see how on the closet, Cristina had many plush toys.
Here is the material of twenty years ago:
The family boy
Cristina Neagu, the one who was chosen the best handball player in the Austria, play football in front of the block, but also on the computer
“I had two girls, the third child wanted to be a boy,” says Cristina Neagu's mother. But she is not disappointed now. “She is the boy's boy, anyway, because she looks at football, plays football and has more strength than all the boys in the block,” added Mrs. Neagu.
A few meters from the Ghencea stadium, where he lives, Cristina Neagu could not love the King Sport. It holds with the star, and her favorite player is Mirel Rădoi. “I go to matches whenever I have the opportunity. When I am leaving, I watch TV, “says the best player in Europe of the age category 16-17. says Cristina.
The first article about Cristina Neagu]in the Sports Gazette since September 2005
Dreams of becoming a great player. “I would like to win the Champions League, to play abroad. I am sure I can realize what I set out if I work. I do not rush to leave Bucharest, at least for now.”says Cristina.
At the European juniors, the center of the “national” of Romania impressed everyone with its game. “I am sorry that we have not won the final. But other finals will come. The year, of the world, we will not escape the title.
Pocket money
Cristina Neagu was discovered by Maria Covaci, the former pivot from Rat Bucharest. The Junior I team from CSȘ 5 Bucharest was the third last year in the championship. “It is a good result because we have no conditions like other bands. We pay our cantonments, sometimes we give money for the arbitration scale. These things are looking at the top,” says Cristina.
Cristina Neagu and her dreams become reality
Cristina Neagu fulfilled her dreams in 2005, won the Buducnost Champions League in 2015, this being the only formation from abroad for which the Romanian career evolved.
In 2006, at the World Championship in Sherbrooke (Canada), Romania, with Cristina Neagu in the team, held the third position, again being the best handball player.
The Sports Gazette dedicated many pages of Cristina Neagu throughout her career, one that ends on Sunday at the Multipurpose Hall in Bucharest with a show worthy of her career.
