Article by Daniel Grigore – Published Saturday, 06 December 2025, 20:08 / Updated Saturday, 06 December 2025 20:13
45 minutes before FCSB – Dinamoin the 19th stage of the Superliga, Mihai Stoica, president of the Board of Directors at the host club, was the author of some vehement observations about what this derby currently means, respectively the CNA scandal – Emil Grădinescu.
From 20:30, FCSB – Dinamo will face each other in a new episode of this fiery Bucharest derby. Before the match, Mihai Stoica took on those who no longer consider this match to be a “Derby of Romania”, a label attributed to the traditional Steaua – Dinamo, mocking on this occasion “Primvs Derby”, the name used more and more often when Rapid and Petrolul face each other.
Mihai Stoica: “FCSB – Dinamo remains the derby of Romanian football!”
“I could have been in the first place, far from the 2nd place, but also in the last place. It would have been the same thing. The derby of Romanian football remains the derby of Romanian football. Some said “Bucharest derby”. What do you mean? FCSB – Dinamo, after Steaua – Dinamo, represents the most important thing in Romanian football.
No matter what money is invested elsewhere, it is the most representative teams with the highest internal performances. The derbies cannot be changed from one day to the next. After all, this notion of the derby started from that 3-year-old horse race.
It's about a match. That some ranking derbies started to be called afternoon derbies… First, we saw it here. Prim Vaslui, probably”, said Mihai Stoica at PrimaSport.
Mihai Stoica: “The players have turned into FCSBists!”
Later, when the interviewer mentioned “FCSB fans in the stands”, Mihai Stoica burst out with a reference to the recent scandal at CNA, in which the commentator Emil Grădinescu was reproached for the way he referred to the fans of the champion, as “star players”.
“Let's say red-blue, until this term is also banned. I see that it is forbidden for stelist supporters to call themselves stelists. Well, stelist supporters became FCSBists overnight. There is no way to ban someone from calling themselves stelist supporters! Indeed, that happened.
As long as we have 55,000 people at a game, it means that the star players have turned into FCSBists. At the same time, while others carry the name, that they are allowed following a strange decision, no one comes to the matches. It is clear that there are no star players there, only a very few. The rest of the star players became FCSBists.
I don't understand where and how far… But I understood that there are also there, at CNA, great affinities towards different teams. I understand that a lady who was very nervous is a supporter very, very – I want to be very careful what words I use, because fiery can be categorized as a threat – a Dynamo supporter. It may be so,” commented MM.
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The lady Mihai Stoica is referring to is Monica Gubernat, member of CNA. He sent it to Emil Grădinescu: “I don't understand why you still need to use the word “The Star” when it comes to FCSB”.
