Article by Andrei Crăiţoiu – Published Tuesday, 03 February 2026, 10:38 / Updated Tuesday, 03 February 2026 10:39
Adrian Mititelu (57 years old) was the guest of the show “Prietenii lui Ovidiu”. The owner of FCU Craiova spoke about his team's problems, but also about the lawsuits he has had all these years since he is an investor in football.
Mititelu came specially from Craiova to participate in Ovidiu Ioanițoaia's show. “I'm still on the barricades, although maybe for some it has become boring and annoying, I stayed there”, was the starting message of the Oltean boss.
VIDEO. Mititelu's slip-up: “He put his hand on the ax and justice was done!”
The dialogue on the GSP set began with a slip by the owner of FCU Craiova. He said that he had over a hundred lawsuits in all these years. “That's life. In the modern world and the civilized world you go to court. Before, in the old days, you used to get your hands on the ax and get justice… You can't, we can't in these daysMititelu declared.
“Others challenged them, I had to seek my justice. Anyway, there are events that have never happened in a civilized world, for a football club to be effectively expropriated in a democratic country of the European Union. That is, to take the team from one and give it to another for no reason,” the team boss pointed out.
Even now CSU is not affiliated, believe me, she plays outside the law. The only club affiliated to the Federation in Craiova is the club that is in bankruptcy. I sued the European Commission, the Romanian Government, FIFA, UEFA, the Federation and the League. They are responsible for what they did, because they committed a genocide within the University of Craiova
Adrian Mititelu, patron of FCU Craiova
“They made a clone of me in the city that took everything”
With the team disaffiliated in 2011, Mititelu admits that he was wrong! Even if they consider Dumitru Dragomir and Mircea Sandu to be the main culprits. “They made me a team in Craiova that took everything from me and that is supported,” he says.
Adrian Mititelu continues the fight with the FRF, opened in the era of Mircea Sandu and Dumitru Dragomir
About the decision of the FRF, Mititelu now says: “Theoretically they are right, because really, I did not fit into some norms related to licensing and payments. But the problem is that they made a clone of me in the city that took everything from me! A football club lives thanks to the brand. You can no longer fight against your own brand!”said the patron of the FCU Craiova team.
In my naivety I thought that when I return to League 1, all the supporters will come to the real team. I didn't think I would live through this drama to see that most of the supporters still go to them. In the key moments the difference was made. They still had a lot of political support
Adrian Mititelu, patron of FCU Craiova
“Pavel Badea is the biggest traitor in the history of Craiova”
In the discussion with Ovidiu Ioanițoaia, Adrian Mititelu claims that “I preferred not to pay the license anymore than to be blackmailed!”. He elaborates: “I could pay if I accepted blackmailL. AI was blackmailed in the most ordinary way and I could not speak because it would have affected my other actions… It would have even affected my family life. In this matter related to football, there was no man more dedicated than me.”
Pavel Badea
Mititelu does not forgive Pavel Badea either, former player of the team from Bănie, currently the president of the Universitatea Craiova Sports Club.
“Pavel Badea is the biggest traitor in the history of Craiova. He associated himself with the Bucharest mafia out of his ego, because he was frustrated that he was no longer involved in football. I made him a coach at the University of Craiova, I brought him from Extensiv in 2002″, added the businessman.
