1. Football
Football is the most popular sport in Romania.
The most internationally known Romanian player is
Gheorghe Hagi, who played for Steaua Bucuresti,
Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and other famous teams.
In 1986, the Romanian football club Steaua Bucureşti
became the first Eastern European club ever, to win
the prestigious European Champions Cup title.
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2. Famous athlete in Romania
Nadia Elena Comăneci
Born in 12 of November of 1961.
At the age of 14, became the first gymnast in
Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of
10.0 at the 1973 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Comăneci is one of the best-known gymnasts in the
world and is credited with popularizing the sport
around the world.
In 2000, she was named as one of the Athletes of
the 20th Century
