Article by Narcis Drejan – published Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 17:06 / Updated Tuesday, June 24, 2025 17:06
Let us be clear from the beginning: not a law for sports, not a law for young people, not a law for performance. It's a law for power, control and privileged.
It's a law for CSA Steaua or CS Dinamo, but with consequences for all. Because, in Romania, when you give a portion of one, tomorrow you turn it into a highway for all the “smart boys”.
What was voted in the Youth and Sport Commission is not just a trivial change in Law 69/2000. It is a legal invention: two public institutions (ie two pockets of the same budget pants) can be associated to create a sports entity of private law. That is, one that can participate in professional competitions of the highest level, like Liga 1, but is also maintained from public money. Private to the name, public for money.
CSA Steaua in League I, Political Obsession
Let's not pretend. It all starts from the sick obsession for CSA Steaua to play in Liga 1, without giving up the status of military club, without taking the real step towards professionalism, without subjecting to the rules of the market economy. In short: with our money, but their glory.
When they were told that I cannot promote in the first league because they are of public law, they found the solution: “We make a club of private law, but still between us. Between the state and the state. It sounds good, right?”. Well, no. It doesn't sound good. It sounds like a legislative trick with electoral cannon.
State football, facade performance
This law not only undermines professional sport, but hits directly into everything that means fair competition. Think about how a club that lives from private sponsors, who work to attract investors, who pay their taxes, when it sees that the state is building its own “private club” and puts it directly in Liga I, with unlimited financing and zero pressure of real results. By the way, Hagi, Rotaru, Becali, Varga, Șucu, Iftime and all the employers who support from private funds have nothing to say?
That's not competition. It is football feudalism, in which the “boyars” in the Parliament draw strings for their sports estates.
What follows? CSM from any commune?
If the project goes through the plenary vote and reaches promulgation, we can expect an explosion of “associations”: CSM Slobozia and Slobozia City Hall = FC Slobozia 2025, private club on public money. CSA Cluj and City Hall = FC Ardeal 1918, professional only on paper.
“Private” clubs will appear in mayor's offices, controlled by local councilors and financed from taxes and taxes. Everything, in the name of a “reform”, which is actually a scheme of outsourcing public money in political interest.
Let's see Nicușor …
Nicușor Dan
Ironically, the fate of this law will be decided by a man who came from civil society: President Nicușor Dan. If he has a spine, if he remembers why he was voted, he must send the law back to Parliament. Not because Steaua would not have the right to play in Liga I, but because this is not the performance in sports.
Not with legal subterfuges, not with mimic “privatizations” between state institutions, not with money in the name of sports glory. Romania needs real reform in sports, correct financing, transparent clubs, sustainable models. Not by legal butaffors and state teams with private status just to deceive federations and public opinion.
And yes, we are talking about austerity. We were told we had to tighten the belt. But in fact, we gather, they waste. They play football, we pay the bill.
