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Romanian Football Is the Gas!

December 26, 2006 at 11:45 AM | 0 Comments

We really want to congratulate Romania on January 1 when it enters the European Union, but there's just too much weird news coming outta there to concentrate on the serious stuff. This time we've learnt of a soccer team which is bartering a player for a gas pipeline.

The way we know it, when you want to exchange your football/baseball/basketball players, you agree on a price, and do it. Not so in Romania.

The boss of a second division soccer team in western Romania, who also happens to be the local mayor, has offered his star goalkeeper to a first division team on the condition that the rich owner pays for a gas pipeline to his town. Of course, we can think of other ways a football team could provide a lotta gas for a town, but Romanians are obviously too polite to think of this.

[Photo: Tsjeu]

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