World Football Quest

It's very possible that, what you know the most about Romania are not things like their medieval history, their communist era after the World War II or other kind of things, like their culture. As I said, the most possible thing you will know about Romania, or at least one of the first things you'll see in your mind when you hear this name, is the history of Vlad Tepes, mostly known by the character of the Count Dracula. Of course he was not really a vampire, but if you hear or read his legend, you can easily understand why it was an inspiration to create the most famous vampire ever (and yes, he's not the fairy of the woods that you can see on Twilight)

About sports in general, and football in particular, Romania has been an important face of many different sports in the recent history. You can easily remember the name of Nadia Comăneci, the first gymnast to earn a perfect score in the history of that sport, Ilie Năstase, a famous tennis player of the 70s, and many other athletes. But here we are to talk about football of course, and this land has gave many different players with great quality, like Georgescu, who won 2 times the European Golden Shoe, Dan Petrescu, Adrian Mutu, and possibly the greatest of all them, Gheorghe Hagi. Unfortunately for them, Romania has never got an international result that were a reflect of those great players, maybe in the future this changes.

The shirt I have comes from 2004, when they failed to classify for the European Championship. That doesn't matter to me, as I like the shirt design, especially the detail of the tiny flag in the left arm. Unfortunately for me, this shirt is an XL, which is too many big for me and, if it wasn't enough, it's so big that it feels like if it really was an XXXL.

BTW I want to salute my friend Dana, who's from Romania and is one of my closest friends. Unfortunately she's having a lot of work right now in London, so probably she's not going to read this. If you do it, hi!