BC Steaua Turabo Bucureşti is the basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

section of CSA Steaua Bucureşti

CSA Steaua Bucuresti

CSA Steaua Bucureşti is a Romanian sports society from Bucharest, Romania run by the Ministry of National Defence of Romania. It is the most successful club in Romania in terms of international and overall trophies...

 sport club, based in Bucureşti, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

. The club competes in the Divizia A. Being part of one of Romania's biggest sports clubs, famous especially for its football team, Steaua's basketball club enjoyed plenty of success over the years, but also disappointments. Many of the last few years have been spent in the second division, including the previous season. However, BC Steaua merged with BC Targoviste, thus changing its name again, this time to BC Steaua Turabo Bucureşti, and taking over Târgovişte's place in the Romanian Basketball Division A

Romanian Basketball Division A

The Divizia A is the top-tier professional basketball league of Romania. There are 16 teams in Men's Division A.The regular season begins in October and is played over a normal round-robin home-and-away basis. The first 8 clubs qualify for the play-offs. The play-offs are played using the knock-out...

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History

After the Romanian Revolution, Baschet Club Steaua Bucureşti was the first basketball club in Romania to turn private. However, after only few years it went bankrupt, and CSA Steaua operated only a youth club for basketball, under the name of Clubul Sportiv Şcolar Steaua Bucureşti. However, this summer, BC Steaua Bucureşti merged with BC Târgovişte and will play again in the first division, under the name BC Steaua Turabo Bucureşti.

Achievements

• Divizia A
  • Winners: 21

• European Cup
  • Bronze: 1

• Balkan Games
  Balkan Games
  The Balkan Games are a regional multi-sport event held between nations from the Balkans. The first Games were held in Athens in 1929, and the most recent LXV Games were held in Larisa in 2010.-Organization:...
  
  
  • Gold: 2
  • Silver: 9
  • Bronze: 10

Current roster

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Head coach
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• (C) Team captain
• Last update: 17.09.2009

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Notable players

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|valign="top"| Sorin Ardelean Romulus Baciu Gheorghe Barau Sebastian Bota Petre Brănişteanu Virgil Căpuşan Costel Cernat Ion Cimpoiaş Gheorghe Câmpeanu Mircea Câmpeanu Mircea Cristescu Petru Czmor Mihai Dimancea Ion Dinescu
Marius Doba Dorin Dumitru Mihai Eordogh Florentin Ermurache Alexandru Fodor Andrei Folbert

Andrei Folbert

Andrei Folbert , nicknamed "The Hope" by his fans and officially "The Magician under the boards", was a professional basketball player and captain of the Romanian basketball team for 25 years. As a player and coach he served the basketball magic for over 38 years.Folbert was known throughout his...

 Valeriu Gheorghe Petre Gradişteanu Paul Helcioiu Viorel Ion Cezar Ioneci Constantin Mircea Andrei Molnar Liviu Nagy
Eugen Neagu Mihai Nedef

Mihai Nedef

Mihai Nedef was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Romanian basketball team, which was eliminated in the first round of the 1952 tournament. He played both matches....

 Teodor Nedelea Anton Netolitzchi Emil Niculescu Dragoş Nosievici Armand Novacek Gheorghe Oczelak Roman Opsitaru Alexandru Panaitescu Constantin Palai Horia Păun Nicolae Pârşu Dan Poleanu
Andrei Popa Bogdan Popescu Mircea Posa Gheorghe Radu Bruno Roschnafsky Alin Savu Cornel Săftescu Cătălin Scarlat Titus Tărău Ioan Testiban Constantin Ştefan Andrei Voinescu Vasile Zdrenghea
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Notable coaches

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|valign="top"| Constantin Herold Mihai Nedef

Mihai Nedef

Mihai Nedef was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Romanian basketball team, which was eliminated in the first round of the 1952 tournament. He played both matches....

 Vasile Popescu

Vasile Popescu

Vasile Popescu was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Romanian basketball team, which was eliminated in the first round of the 1952 tournament. He played both matches....

 Mircea Câmpeanu Dumitru Lecca
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External links

Official CSA Steaua website Club website