Dear Romania

Good football players, violent supporters, medieval roads and stadiums without toilets.

This is what the foreigners who came last week to play found in Romania.

After a slow transition, Romania seems to get on top with football. We are again respected in Europe; starting 2008, Romania will have two representatives in Champions League and four teams in the UEFA Cup, an absolute premier for us.

With all of these, the situation is not as good as it seems. Respecting the specific of the paradoxes of a country where the politicians are not out of the Fanariot age; being left behind by the society, football has drifted away from the infrastructure.