After having a look at the 1986 Steaua-Barcelona shootout, prompted by the shootouts thread, I started having a look through old footage of Hagi and of Romanian football in general.
A few gems are there to be found on youtube. There's too much by Hagi for it to be worth linking to any individual clips, but there is weird stuff like this wacky goal by Lacatus for Steaua against (a very very dirty) Gothenburg in the '89 European Cup (you have to wait for the second replay to clearly see just how wacky). Or there's this little beauty, what appears to be an off-screen filming of a video of the infamous disallowed Steaua goal from the '88 Romanian Cup Final (I wrote an article about that one for WSC many years ago), an incident reputedly wiped from the official TVR tapes of the game, presumably on teh order of some Securitate big cheese who didn't want it to ever be revealed that there was nothing wrong with Balint's goal.
Anyway. That's just a lengthy digression. What really surprised me was to see footage from 1988 that showed Steaua had their shirts sponsored by Ford.
Was there a lot of that sort of thing back before the wall came down?
A few gems are there to be found on youtube. There's too much by Hagi for it to be worth linking to any individual clips, but there is weird stuff like this wacky goal by Lacatus for Steaua against (a very very dirty) Gothenburg in the '89 European Cup (you have to wait for the second replay to clearly see just how wacky). Or there's this little beauty, what appears to be an off-screen filming of a video of the infamous disallowed Steaua goal from the '88 Romanian Cup Final (I wrote an article about that one for WSC many years ago), an incident reputedly wiped from the official TVR tapes of the game, presumably on teh order of some Securitate big cheese who didn't want it to ever be revealed that there was nothing wrong with Balint's goal.
Anyway. That's just a lengthy digression. What really surprised me was to see footage from 1988 that showed Steaua had their shirts sponsored by Ford.
Was there a lot of that sort of thing back before the wall came down?
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