Sport Focus by NewsVibe. Map of this week's sports topics

The spectacular Champions League final, the Roland Garros tournament, the national team's match against Austria and the European Gymnastics Championships in Leipzig were the central topics of interest for online sources writing about sport in the last week. With the help of NewsVibe, an innovative online trend spotting tool, we identify and analyze the map of online discussions about sport, creating a semantic network based on entities (clubs, personalities, events, etc.) that have appeared in similar contexts online.

Grafic NewsVibe. Map of entities that have provoked the most mentions in sports-related articles and posts in the past week

The network of sports topics, personalities and brands denotes a recent agenda dominated by football international (primarily FCSB transfer talks, but also moves by Rapid and Dinamo), as well as European - through echoes of the Champions League final, with international ramifications - through the World Cup preliminaries. The non-football subjects were tennis (through the Roland Garros tournament) and gymnastics, and the only Romanian non-football athlete with high visibility was Ana Bărbosu, a sign that individual excellence remains a factor of viralization in an ecosystem otherwise overwhelmed by football clubs and developments.

FCSB has featured heavily in online sports content, capturing attention with the transfer of Dennis Politic from Dinamo, with the announcement imminent. Also this week, the return of Denis Alibec (out of contract) was made official - unveiled on May 30, with the explicit target: the Champions League groups.

Dinamo are on the week's top stories with the sale of Politic to rivals FCSB, while at Rapid, Costel Gâlcă became the new coach on June 3; owner Dan Șucu has set a minimum target of qualifying for the European Cup.

The Champions League final in München on May 31 ended 5-0 to PSG Saint-Germain against Inter - the worst scoreline in the competition's history. The Romanian referee István Kovács gave a faultless performance, which was highlighted in the press.

At Roland Garros, the week saw leaders Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Świątek qualify for the semi-finals simultaneously. On the Romanian axis, Sorana Cîrstea announced her withdrawal from the tournament ahead of her debut due to injury, but Jaqueline Cristian achieved the best result of her career in Paris, being eliminated in the third round.

Metaloglobus Bucharest achieved a historic promotion to the Superliga following a 1-1, 1-0 play-off draw with Poli Iași.

Hours later, coach Ianis Zicu resigned and subsequently signed with Farul Constanța.

*****Syndicated using a monitoring feed provided by NewsVibe Romania. The analysis is based on a Machine Learning model developed by the NewsVibe team, which has been trained to classify the content extracted from relevant online sources according to the topic. The presented data has been enhanced using Artificial Intelligence tools.