June 12, 2025. Sports news round-up / last 24 hours

The sports landscape is marked by the start of the U21 European Championship, transfers and strategic moves. Romanian football is going through a rebuilding phase at national team level, while the international scene brings spectacular transfers and staff changes ahead of the start of the new season. In parallel, tennis offers special moments.

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• Rapid: Mauro Pederzoli has parted company with Parma and will sign for Rapid Bucharest as sporting director. The post was initially promised to Cristi Săpunaru, but the Giuleșteneri changed course following the "alcohol in the dressing room" scandal.

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• Romania U21: Romania's U21 national team lost to Italy, 0-1, in the first match played by the "little tricolors" at the European Championship being held in Slovakia. Also in the stands was Costin Curelea, who will take over the U21 national team after the final tournament, when Daniel Pancu will finish his mandate.
• Denis Drăguș: Denis Drăguș spoke about a possible transfer to Romanian champions FCSB. The national team striker said that he feels good at Trabzonspor and is not thinking about a departure from the Turkish side.

Transfers

• FC Argeș/Vadim Rață: Vadim Rață is close to signing for FC Argeș. The Moldovan midfielder played for U Cluj last season.
• Cristi Ganea/Farul Constanța: Cristi Ganea has extended his contract with Farul Constanța. The player was wanted by the new coach of the "marinilors" Ianis Zicu.
• Manchester City: Manchester City pulled off a spectacular transfer just before their Club World Cup debut. "The 'Citizens' transferred Tijjani Reijnders from AC Milan, for whom they paid €60 million.
• FCSB: Jordan Gele, Malcom Edjouma and Alexandru Băluță are negotiating their departure from FCSB. The club does not want any transfer fee, the main aim of owner Gigi Becali is to get rid of the salaries of the three footballers.

TENIS

• Gabriela Ruse: Gabriela Ruse has qualified for the "round of 16" at the grass-court tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch. The Romanian won in two sets, 6-2/6-1 against Dutch Isis Louise van den Broek.

Top Athletes and Teams

1. Romania U21/European Championship
2. FCSB
3. Manchester City
4. Gabriela Ruse
5. Farul Constanța/Cristi Ganea

***** Synthesis made with the help of a monitoring feed provided by NewsVibe Romania. The top sports topics are identified from automated topic monitoring of mainstream media sources. The analysis, data and images presented were enhanced with the help of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tools.