“It was a discussion with Dinamo. I tell you”

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Nicoara has flirted with this idea. In 2022, he proposed to get involved in Dinamo, but the plans did not materialize. Explain why.

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Nicoara conditions the possible shareholder quality in the first league from the exit of the TV rights.

“A football club would be an interesting option. But I would do this only after I close the subject of TV rights.

Football is a special business. But in the end, all the expenses/income you have. It depends on what you want to do: have fame, make money. At the moment, only Gigi Becali makes money from football, maybe Gheorghe Hagi, maybe Valeriu Iftime, “said Orlando Nicoara, at the GSP podcast” to 1 “

Orlando Nicoara discussed the takeover of Dinamo: “There is an interest that they will be in the first league”

In 2022, after Dinamo's relegation to “B”, Nicoara negotiated the association with the red-blue.

“The story with Dinamo is as follows: we were interested in exactly when the team relegated. Dinamo is a brand, and we, as holders of TV rights, had the interest that they would be in the first league. In a total chaos, after falling into the 2nd League, the goal would have been to stabilize the situation and help it promote.

As long as they stayed in the second division, another purpose was to find an investor to take over the club after promoting, because we could not have been involved with Dinamo in Superliga, ”Nicoara reported.

Why did the option drop? The answer is short, to the object: “The discussions were held in a frame of 5 people, and what we discussed later arrived in the press. At that moment we withdrew”.

At that time, Orlando Nicoara took into account to support Dinamo with his partner in EAD and Prima TV, Adrian Tomșa.

Orlando Nicoara at Podcastul GSP “2 to 1”, photo: Ionuț Iordache (gsp.ro)

• EAD purchases TV rights for the LPF Superliga, then sells them to television.

“2 to 1” with Orlando Nicoara, Friday, 6:00 pm. The main topics addressed:

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• How much does a Liga 1 match cost?
• Why it states that “the FCSB brand is stronger today than the Steaua brand”;
• reveals to which team it holds;
• conflict with Gigi Becali;
• The Premier League experiment on Voyo;
• Major announcement about the TV rights contract that now runs the Superliga;
• Business Recommendations: In what is good to invest today and what business you need to keep in Nicoara's vision;
• The challenges of an entrepreneur-“then all the hair I had had fell”;
• The piracy faced by EAD products;
• The story of the first match in Romania transmitted online.

About Orlando Nicoara:

• The director of the EAD, the company that owns the TV rights for Liga 1 and has implemented the VAR in Romania;
• Before being a key character in football, Orlando Nicoara was one of the most important players in the digital landscape in Romania for the last 25 years;
• One of the Internet pioneers in our country, later press manager, entrepreneur, investor in many media and technology projects;
• He drove Mediafax Group from 2014. Since 2015, he has contributed to the launch of publications such as Profit.ro, News.ro, and recently became the owner of the daily publication;
• He transmitted the UEAUA and Rapid's online “quarter”, a premiere at the time.