Famous Romanian minority sportsmen - Romanian Team

1. Fighting against bullying
through movement and sport
FAMOUS ROMANIAN MINORITY
SPORTSMEN.
Liceul Teoretic Gheorghe
Munteanu Murgoci
GabrielaBucur
Janina IzabelaMihai

2. What does bullying mean?
 Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior in which
someone intentionally and repeatedly causes
another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take
the form of physical contact, words or more subtle
actions.
 The bullied individual typically has trouble defending
him or herself and does nothing to “cause” the
bullying.

3. Simona Halep
 Simona Halep was born
27th September 1991
Constanta is a Romanian
professional tennis player. Halep
first broke into the world's top 50
at the end of 2012, reached the
top 20 in August 2013, and
finally the top 10 in January
2014.
 Simona Halep is the daughter of
Stere and Tania Halep, a family
of Aromanian descent.

4.  Halep started playing
tennis at the age of four, in
emulation of her older
brother. At age 6, she was
practicing daily. At age 16,
she relocated to Bucharest
to further her tennis
career. She named Justine
Henin and Andrei Pavel as
two of her idols when she
was younger.

5.  In terms of tennis strategy
Halep is an aggressive
counterpuncher. Her very fit
body and athleticism provide
her with very good all-court
movement and she tends to
make few errors; she also
uses this agility to reach the
ball earlier because of her
wide back swings and sliding.
At the same time she likes to
control the rally and can hit
very effective cross-court and
down-the-line flat shots,
generally producing winners.

6.  5 Halep reached the 2014 French
Open final, her first Grand Slam
final, where she lost to Maria
Sharapova in three sets. She also
reached the final of the WTA Finals
the same year, losing to Serena
Williams in straight sets after
having defeated her earlier in the
tournament
 After the 2017 Wimbledon
Championships, Simona Halep
became the active player with the
most consecutive weeks within the
Top 10.

7. Gheorghe Hagi
 Gheorghe "Gică"
Hagi was born 5th February
1965, and is an Aromanian
former professional footballer,
considered one of the
best attacking midfielders in
Europe during the 1980s and
'90s and the greatest
Romanian footballer of all
time. Galatasaray fans called
him "Comandante" ("The
Commander") and Romanians
call him "Regele" ("The King").

8.  Nicknamed "The Maradona of
the Carpathians", Hagi is
considered a hero in his
homeland. He was named
Romanian Footballer of the
Year seven times, and is
regarded as one of the best
football players of his
generation. As a creative
advanced playmaker, he was
renowned for his dribbling,
technique, vision, passing and
finishing.

9.  Hagi played for the Romania
national team in three FIFA World
Cups, in 1990, 1994 (where he
was named in the World Cup All-
Star Team)
 In 2009, Hagi founded Romanian
club Viitorul Constanța. He is
currently both owner and chairman
of the club. Hagi also established
the Gheorghe Hagi football
academy, one of the biggest
football academies in Southeastern
Europe. His son Ianis is also a
footballer..

10. Béla Károlyi
 Béla Károlyi was born
in September 13th,
1942 and is a Romanian
gymnastics coach of
Hungarian descent. He
and his wife Márta are
ethnic Hungarians from
Transylvania, and early
in his coaching career
he developed the
Romanian centralised
training system for
gymnastics.

11. One of his earliest
protégés was Nadia
Comăneci, the first
gymnast to be awarded
a perfect score of 10.
Living under the
dictatorship of Nicolae
Ceausescu, Károlyi
frequently clashed with
Romanian officials and
the Károlyis
subsequently defected to
the United States in
1981.

12.  Since their arrival in the
United States, Béla and
Márta Károlyi have been
credited with transforming
the coaching of gymnastics
in the US and bringing major
international success. They
have both been head coach
of the United States
women's national
gymnastics team, as well as
national team coordinator for
United States gymnastics at
the Olympic Games.

13. Ivan Patzaichin
 Ivan Patzaichin was born in
26th November 1949. He is a
Romanian canoe racing coach
and retired sprint canoeist. He
took part in all major
competitions between 1968
and 1984, including five
consecutive Olympics, and
won seven Olympic and 22
world championship medals,
including four Olympic gold
medals.

14.  This makes him most decorated
Romanian canoeist of all times. He
later worked as a canoeing coach,
attending five more Olympics in this
capacity.In 1990 he was awarded
the Olympic Order, and in 2006
included to the list of 100 Greatest
Romanians of all time by a
nationwide poll.
 Patzaichin was born in a Russian
Lipovan family in the village Mila 23.
His father Vicol was a fisherman and
his mother Alexandra was a
dressmaker.

15.  He took up canoeing in early
age inspired by his
grandfather, and decided to
pursue a canoeing career
after watching a TV broadcast
of two canoers from his
village, Vicol Calabiciov and
Serghei Covaliov, winning the
1966 world title in doubles.
 Patzaichin spent his entire
career with Dinamo Club, first
as a trainee and competitor,
rowing 4000–5000 km per
year in his prime, and then as
a coach