As you will see from below the Romania provisional sqaud has been accounced, Marius is there.

Selec?ionerul Victor Pi?urc? a hot?r?t azi numele celor 12 juc?tori de peste hotare care vor veni la la Mogosoaia pe 22 mai pentru cantonamentul de preg?tire la turneul final al Campionatului European. Ceea ce surprinde este absen?a funda?ului de la Ajax, George Og?raru:

Cosmin Contra (Getafe CF), Gabriel Tama? (AJ Auxerre), ?tefan Radu (SS Lazio), R?zvan Ra? (FC ?ahtior Done?k), Florentin Petre (TSKA Sofia), Paul Codrea (AC Siena), R?zvan Coci? (FC Lokomotiv Moscova), Cristian Chivu (Internazionale Milano FC), Adrian Mutu (Forentina), Ciprian Marica (VfB Stuttgart), Daniel Niculae (AJ Auxerre) ?i Marius Niculae (Inverness). Al?turi de ei vor fi prezen?i ?i 14 juc?tori legitima?i la cluburile din ?ar?:

Bogdan Lobon? (FC Dinamo Bucure?ti), D?nu? Coman (FC Rapid Bucure?ti), Marius Popa (FC Politehnica 1921 ?tiin?a Timi?oara), Cristian S?punaru (FC Rapid), Dorin Goian, Sorin Ghionea (ambii, FC Steaua), Cosmin Mo?i (FC Dinamo), Mirel R?doi, Ovidiu Petre, Nicolae Dic?, B?nel Nicoli?? (to?i, FC Steaua), Adrian Cristea, Florin Bratu (ambii, FC Dinamo) ?i Ciprian Deac (CFR 1907 Cluj). Din acest lot l?rgit se vor desemna cei 23 de juc?tori care vor merge la EURO 2008.

welldone for finding the info, Ive been looking for a few days on tinternet but to no avail

Congrats to Marius.

Hope it is on T.V. now that I will have a bit fo time to loll around.  :crazy07:

I notice that in the squad there are 4 players that are uncapped or have 1 cap. I'd imagine they'd be the first to be left out of the final 23. Marius and Mutu are the only strikers in double figures for goals as well.

I have a funny feeling he'll be left in the squad.

Fingers crossed anyhoo, as i'll be looking online for a cheap romania strip to cheer him on.

Ovidiu Petre has been ruled out due to injury. Means a bigger chance of Marius getting in the final 23  :021: :021:

Looking good fer Marius -  :clapping03: :clapping03:

Looks almost deffo that it will be FOUR forwards out of - Forwards: Adrian Mutu (Fiorentina), Ciprian Marica (VfB Stuttgart), Daniel Niculae (Auxerre), Marius Niculae (Inverness Caledonian Thistle), Florin Bratu (Dinamo Bucharest).

Suspect Mutu and Daniel N are certs - Marica would undoubtedly get the nod if fit - dont know much about Bratu.

Still can't get used to seeing Inverness Caledonian Thistle listed up there along with the rest of those teams.

Marica still struggling to be fit according to the Courier

I am across in Romania at the moment according to all the papers here he is odds on to make the cut, front page news today was pics of him getting his medical.marica is also going to be fit as with him and marius last night it was basically just a dead leg he has

i would expect marius to make it infront of bratu

Here's the link to the team we now support:

http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/news/kind=1/ne...+romania+muster

Ovidiu Petre has been ruled out due to injury. Means a bigger chance of Marius getting in the final 23  :021: :021:

I'd rather Marius made it on merit if he's going to rather than injuries keeping others out.

Question - How many SPL teams have a player at Euro 2008?

Interesting?

Question - How many SPL teams have a player at Euro 2008?

Interesting?

The ones that I can think of off the top of my head is Celtic.  Not sure if Rangers has anyone there.

Question - How many SPL teams have a player at Euro 2008?

Interesting?

I may be wrong but this is what I think

Aberdeen - No one

Celtic - V of Hesselink, Boruc

Dundee Utd - No one

Falkirk - No one

Gretna - No one

Hearts - No one

Hibs - No ome

ICT - NICULAE

Killie - No one

Motherwell - No one

Rangers - No one

St Mirren - No one

Celtic have Boruc and Vinegar and Samaras. Think that's it.

Question - How many SPL teams have a player at Euro 2008?

Interesting?

2............us (Niculae) and septic (Boruc, Vinegar, Samaras and Zurawski)

Surely Spain have inluded Cuellar....he's been phenomenal for Rangers defence this season

ive just looked at the Spain squad and he's not there...strange

oh well i guess its just Boruc, Eff- off efflehump & our Marius

Surely Spain have inluded Cuellar....he's been phenomenal for Rangers defence this season

Cuellar has never been capped

Obviously the link below is in Romanian and without translating the whole thing the gist of it is the Chivu will probably miss the first game, Marius has been doing very well in training and they now expect him to start the first game of the Euros up front with Mutu, you will see the word S?geat? been banded about a lot this is Marius nickname in Romania

Predicted team

Lobon? - Contra, Tama?, Goian, Ra? - Coci?, R?doi, Codrea - Fl. Petre, M. Niculae, Mutu.

http://www.gsp.ro/stire/se-vede-echipa-pen...euro-70544.html

surely daniel nicaule would start

Taken from theage.com.au:

Marius Niculae (Inverness Caledonian Thistle). Forward. Born 16.5.81. Caps 29. Goals 13.

Has made a welcome return to the national squad after four years of injuries and took his goal tally into double figures this season at club level. Not one to be messed with, Niculae was a national judo champion at junior level in Romania.

Well thank feck it's not me that's been giving him a hard time all season.

Eart Times Linkwww.earthtimes.org/articles/show/206817,back-to-basics-for-romania--feature.html

"A wild card in attack could be Marius Niculae, who was recalled to the side after a two year absence and scored in his first game back against Russia"

A quote from the above article. I've seen quite a few articles saying the same thing. Basically Marius is being tipped as a surprise starter which is brilliant. Really hoping he gets the nod.

"in form"  :017:

Taken from theage.com.au:

Well thank feck it's not me that's been giving him a hard time all season.

he had a good teacher as his dad was european champion at judo