The man who put the foundation at CS Dinamo. Brought millions to the club but a woman disturbed the waters

The “truth” continues to present history pages from the Romanian sport and carry on the series dedicated to the less present in the attention of the people, some completely unknown to the general public, but who have a full of memories. Such a person is Nicolae Vărzariu. He is 92 years

Nicu Vărzariu, along with his friend Patzaichin. In the back, crin Antonescu PHOTO Personal Collection

Brici. He received us in his home from which he sees the lump of the intersection of the Roman Square. On the table it has many drug tables, but only two are for brain circulation. The others are supplements. So, Nea Nicu presents himself in full form, with fresh memories. Vărzariu has gathered secrets from two major major institutions in the Romanian sport: FRF and Dinamo. For the Romanian Football Federation he worked from 1990-1994. In 1996, already retired, he moved to Stefan cel Mare Road, where he worked by 2020.

From wood processing to FRF

At the Federation, Vărzariu accompanied the national of two final tournaments, Coppa del Mondo 1990 and World Cup 1994. He intersected with Cornel Dinu, who was secreted by the state in the Ministry of Youth and Sport, was then appointed a national team, where he remained until the fateful match of June 1993, from June 1993. “We were working at the wood processing power plant, subordinated to the miniriter of the forest economy and building materials. A colleague transferred to the Directorate of Culture and Sports within Finance and there he told me about Marian Albu. He told her I like the sport. The FRF even brought me Marian Albu, who was the treasurer of the federation and who put me head of the financial-accounting service. At the processing of the wood I had a salary of 5,500 lei as the head of the financial service plus bonuses, and at the FRF I woke up with 4,000 lei. I lost 1,500 lei to the salary, but I do not regret“, Says Vărzariu. About the” haiduks “of the regime Mircea Sandu, Vărzariu does not pronounce. In time it was said that FRF was washed in 1994, equipment of a million dollars, and in Kosice, a suitcase with $ 300,000 would have been intended for Danish referee Kim Milton Nielsen, but in fact it would have been preserved and divided by older day. “Dinu was worked in Kosice to get rid of him!“, He is convinced Vărzariu, who then developed a friendship with the prosecutor.

Nicu Vărzariu was a “car” to make money for CS Dinamo Photo Daniel Conțescu

“Dinu was my idol”

Nicolae Vărzariu retired in December 1994. Cornel Dinu at Co -Popta at Dinamo to lay the foundations of the Pro Dinamo Foundation, which aimed to support the performers in the “dogs”. It is among the 32 founding members of the Foundation. PRO Dinamo was established in March 1966, at the initiative of the CS Dinamo leadership since then, Cornel Dinu – president and Valentin Samungi – vice -president. The connection of Vărzariu with Dinu, who on August 2 turned 77, resisted the time. “Dinu was my idol. A great field fighter, but also a great intellectual. He wrote articles at Flacăra and Sport. His mother was a French teacher, and his father – magistrate. For me, Dinu was like a Dac!“, Says Nicu Vărzariu. Dinu was well known at the federation, and in Dinamo he became a friend.”At 10-11, Dinu appeared at the federation. He put his hands in his hip and addressed those who organized steaks and whiskey: “Well, well, if at this time you are all drunk, who is driving, me, the federation?“. They could no longer bear the federation and wanted to get rid of it. I was then asked if I am with them or I am with Dinu. I preferred to leave and retire,” recalls Vărzariu.

“I brought $ 4.5 million”

He followed the activity from CS Dinamo, where he did not intersect with football, but collaborated directly with the other sections. The handball team succeeded the biggest performances. But money from the foundation also received basketball and volleyball formations. “Between 1996-2020, I brought to Dinamo over $ 4.5 million. When I came to the club, CS Dinamo was in 3rd in the clubs in the country, after the Lighthouse, which had the swimmer Diana Mocanu, and CSA Steaua, then was only in the first place. This is how I could support the performance at Dinamo. 200 companies I met and signed several hundred contracts. Following Vărzariu there are brochures and edited books that tell the story of dynamo athletes. In the courtyard of the Interior, Vărzariu says that “I was not imputed a lion and I did not execute any illegal order. I wanted to have verticality ”.

Books and brochures about the history of Dynamovists Photo Daniel Conţescu

Lipa wanted to move the statue of Patzaichin

In 2009, something broke at CS Dinamo for the man who knows about no one else, the history of the club. “It was brought to the management of the club Mrs. Lipă, who at the first press conference announced that she wants to abolish the Foundation, and instead of making another foundation, without knowing that this was not possible. He no longer wanted the money to go through the Dinamo Pro Foundation. He even ordered to three companies, two of whom were Alro Slatina and Baumit, not to pay my bills“.He tells me that it would be good to move the statue of Ivan, see Lord, so that the dogs no longer pee. I replied that if she wants to stop pee on her the dogs you just have to surround her with a fence, do not move from there. The desire for her was to reduce Ivan“. In front of Ivan Patzaichin, Vărzariu also had a cult. But he also developed a personal relationship:”As a godfather, he accompanied me in the church when I celebrated 50 years of marriage”.

Turcu paid first to handball

Before becoming a shareholder in the football team, the businessman Vasile Turcu worked at the handball team of the “Red-Albe” group, where he had become a sponsor. The formation bore the name Romconstruct, and Turcu was pumping money and receiving notoriety. Vărzariu has a story with Turcu: “At a match played by Dinamo in Ukraine, Turcu liked two players from the opposing team. Bought it for $ 25,000. The money gave him out of his pocket. I called him to ask him if he did not want to fall with that money, and instead they receive visibility. That's how he entered sports with a sponsorship of $ 25,000“Former president of the patronage confederation of the Romanian industry, Vasile Turcu no longer lives. He committed suicide by hanging on March 9, 2017. The information at that time was that the companies he owned had great financial difficulties, and the problems caused Turcu to resort to the desperate gesture.

Declared late at birth

Born in the area of Oltenia (cmunam hunters Jud Mehedinti!) Nea Nicu Vărzariu appears in acts as being born on 7 fever 1933. From his mother he learned, that he came to the world earlier, on February 2, but was declared a few days later because of winter. “” My father was gone to buy a harvesting from a neighboring village, Poiana Ciorii, a few kilometers away. It took a big snow there, 2.5 meters high, and she could not come home until after five days. She went to the town hall on February 8, and I could not be born on February 7. Vărzariu.