Women Footbal Club and Academy Olimpia
OLIMPIA
WOMEN’S FOOTBALL ACADEMY
CLUJ - NAPOCA
ARGUMENT
Ever since antiquity, a great importance was given to sports.
An integrating part of the history of mankind, The Olympic Games, initially called Olympiakoi Agones have put a permanent stamp on the evolution of the society, emphasizing along the years various characters, personalities and, at the same time, destinies. The Latin dictum “mens sana in corpore sano” has been defining up to present the essence of a healthy life.
The competition mainly profiled on contest was considered as a fundamental feature of sports. Along the years, sports also proved to have an educational feature which exists both within the professional and the recreational sports. The sports’ functions are complex, acting on the athlete, mainly satisfying the need for physical exercise within young people from everywhere.
All over the world there has been a great interest with regard to children being involved in sports, integrated in recreational programs and included in their parents’ lifestyles.
Recently, the most developed trend is practicing sports in organized environments, offering children the chance of a balanced physical growth, development of their talent and motional abilities, as well as their motivating mental condition needed for self-improvement within professional structures specific to their age.
THREE BASIC ADVANTAGES IN THE PROJECT’S ANALYSIS:
- In the last Olympic cycle, women’s football is the most developed sport!
- There are over 26 million women’s football players in the world and we plan (with the support of this project) to increase the number of registered women’s football players in Romania from 500 to over 2000 within the next 5 years!
- In the last 7 years, Cluj-Napoca promoted over 60 players to the national women’s football teams (seniors, U16,U17,U15 ).
- WFA will be the first selection and training center for the women’s football in Eastern Europe!
PROJECT’S NAME
The Olimpia Women’s Football Club submits the accomplishment of the project named:
Women’s football development in Romania by means of creating the Olimpia Women’s Football Academy.
The motivation of the present project is first of all in accordance with the UEFA objectives to develop football of all types, based on sympathy and fair-play with no discrimination whatsoever.
The Romanian Football Federation, as joined member of UEFA, makes significant efforts also to develop the women’s football by creating a women’s football championship since 1990.
Nevertheless, there is a need to create an environment organized on separate criteria of age, especially designed for young talented women who want to play football.
An essential factor, emphasized during various sport competitions for children, is the rich segment of human resources in a 23 million habitants country.
Information on women’s football progress in Romania:
Football is a social phenomenon, present on all of the continents, which can no longer be ignored in our century by any type of government in any country. For the skeptical persons with regard to the evolution of women’s football, we recommend a retrospect view on the years 1925-1927, when women’s handball was in its first days of existence.
The present success and amplitude of women’s handball, as well as the economic inferring and the prestige of sponsors supporting this sport overcome the disputes of the past.
In the 1972-1990’s, in Romania, several friendly women’s games took place, but the institutionalization of this sport only happens on April, the 5th, 1990 when it is affiliated to the Romanian Football Federation.
Presently, the 1st league includes 12 teams:
1. CFF Clujana
2. CS Sporting Craiova
3. CSS Targoviste
4. CS Mototul Oradea
5. FC Nicolae Dobrin
6. AFC Fair Play Bucuresti
7. CS Real Craiova
8. CS Metalul Vlahita
9. SN Constanta
10. FC Municipal Targu Mures
11. FC Alice&Tunes Pitesti
12 OLIMPIA Cluj-Napoca
13 CS Brazi
The geographical distribution covers two areas: NORTH-WEST and SOUTH.
We can easily notice that the location of the city of Cluj-Napoca is appropriate for the development of the Academy, being located in the center of the North-Western area. Practically, half of the teams which are registered in the 1st league geographically spread 200 km around this city.
Presentation of the city of Cluj-Napoca as the headquarters of Olimpia W.F. Academy
The name Cluj comes from the Latin term Castrum Clus, used for the first time in the 12th century to name the medieval city’s citadel from here. The toponym Clus means “closed” in Latin and it refers to the hills surrounding the city.
Other frequently used names of the city are the Hungarian and German ones, Kolozsvár and Klausenburg. Klausenburg was one of the seven medieval German citadels from Transylvania (in German Siebenbürgen, meaning Seven Citadels). The first Romanian name of the city was Cluş, sometimes written Klus. The name Cluj became permanent especially after the city became part of the Romanian Kingdom in 1918.
By means of the State Council’s Decision no. 194 of October, the 16th, 1974, the city of Cluj was given the name Cluj-Napoca.
In the last years, the city’s population oscillated around 300000 habitants. According to the last information received from the National Institute of Statistics, the city had, in 2009, 306009 habitants, taking one of the first positions in Romania from this point of view.
Economy:
Cluj-Napoca holds one of the most dynamic economies in Romania. The most present activity within the city’s economy is the processing industry. At the end of 2000, there were 23843 private companies, 56 public companies, 31 national companies and branches, as well as 115 private-public companies. The level of the foreign investments in Cluj-Napoca counted at the same date 156,06 million dollars subscribed foreign capital, but, considering also the companies’ patrimony, current assets, commercial fund, rolling capital and the value of the business, the total amount goes up to 450 million USD. The main foreign investors in this city come from Hungary, Luxembourg, Italy and the United States.
According to a classification made by the Capital magazine in the first part of 2006, Cluj-Napoca is the most expensive city in Romania. At the same time, in the top 300 richest Romanians, also set up by the Capital magazine, 19 persons are businessmen from Cluj. Cluj is the first county, following Bucharest, regarding the number of rich people from Romania.[21]
Transportation:
The city has direct access to the railway and road base lines which cross it, and this offers connections with the main cities of the country and the regional centers, both for persons and merchandise. Cluj-Napoca is crossed by the European road E 60 (Bucharest - Oradea - Budapest - Vienna).
In the railway segment, the city has direct railway connections with all the main cities from Romania. At the same time, there are two international trains, on the route Cluj-Napoca – Budapest (Corona and Ady Endre).
Cluj benefits from the services of an international airport, Someşeni, located in the eastern part of the city. The airport annually ensures traffic of approximately 250000 passengers, out of which two thirds on international flights.
The Transylvania Highway project is a 4-way highway, 415 km long, which begins in the center of Romania, north-west from Braşov, reaching to Oradea, at the Hungarian border. Thus, in the years to come, the access to the city will be even easier, on the route Bucharest – Braşov – Cluj-Napoca – Oradea – Budapest, which will take over a large part of the road traffic from the Eastern European Union.
Education :
The „Babeş-Bolyai” University (UBB) is the largest university in the country, with over 45500 students in 105 specializations (out of which 98 in Romanian, 52 in Hungarian, 13 in German and 4 in English). At the same time, the city hosts 8 other universities, such as the Technical University, USAMV, the „Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, the „Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy, The University of Art and Design as well as a large number of high schools (see Education in Cluj-Napoca).
Sports:
The most important football clubs in the city are CFR 1907 Cluj and U Cluj. The CFR CLUJ Club, hosted on the Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Stadium, is known on a European level due to its progessive trend during 2003-2008. Among the important results of this club there is the title of 1st League champions, and winners of the Romanian Cup in 2008 and 2010, as well as participations in the Champions League.
The Universitatea Cluj club, hosted on the Ion Moina Stadium, has a historical portfolio filled with accomplishments, such as 2nd place in the Romanian championship in 1932-1933, winners of the Romanian Cup in 1964-1965, eighth finals in the European Cup of Cups (1965-1966) and the 1st round of the UEFA Cup. One of the legendary coaches of the U Cluj team was Ştefan Kovács.
The CFF Clujana club, having as coach and founding member Mr. Albon Mirel, owns a portfolio with 7 Romanian champion titles, as well as successive participations in the Champions League.
Presently, in Cluj-Napoca, the Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Stadium was accredited to be able to host Champions league competitions, and the construction of the Cluj Arena Stadium, one of the most modern stadiums in the country, is in its last year of development.
Cluj-Napoca is the only city in Romania which has teams in the first league for all the sport games.
Presentation of the Olimpia Women’s Football Club
The Olimpia Women’s Football Club is the most recent club set up in Cluj-Napoca. The legal profile is non-profit company with a board of directors concluding 8 founding members.
Official address :
Cluj-Napoca , str. Mecanicilor nr. 48
Objective: Practicing of women’s football in an organized environment.
Council director:
1. Munteanu Radu – Rector of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca President of the Board of Directors
2. Albon Mirel – coach for the national teams of women’s football.
General Manager
3. Cioban Alexandru Alin – manager of SC Amerleofarm
Vicepresident / Project manager .
4. Cocan Eugen Virgil - manager of SC Alegria Multi Media
Vicepresident
President of honour: Hristea Erika – manger of SC Secpral PRO Instalatii
Facilities
In order to best develop the training process for young female athletes, we chose the existing well known sport facilities in the city of Cluj-Napoca. Training involves play fields, training fileds, an indoor arena for winter training and not only, a gym etc. At the same time, we chose accommodation and meal facilities that were or still are being used by other groups of athletes as well.
To be more specific, the sport facilities are:
1. Central headquarters - Str. Mecanicilor nr. 48, a house with a net surface of aproximately 160 mp and an inside yard.
2. Training fields:
2.1 Standard size play field 105x68 m. Location - Ardealul Sport Center. The pitch is made of grass and is endowed with stands of aproximately 5000 seats.
2.2 Training field:
- a field of 100x50 m
- two fields of 40x20 m
The pitch is synthetic and it includes lighting systems.
3. Gym. The gym is endowed with all the equipment needed for physical abilities improvement but also for post-effort recovery. Aproximately 30 persons can work out simultaneously.
4. Indoor arenas:
- The Technical University arena
- The Horia Demian Cluj-Napoca arena
5. Accommodation and meals:
For the athletes who live outside of Cluj-Napoca we are offering accommodation for up to 44 persons in the first year within the Vocational School “Aurel Vlaicu “. The rooms are standard endowed, offering apprpriate conditions both for the sport performance and for the educational activities.
Messages
In any organization, regardless of its profile, along with the visual identity, a great importance is given to the messages. The present project suggests the setting-up of a collaboration with a company which is specialized in communication relationships and which whould not only act in the advertising campaigns but both when organizing various events.
The messages will be permanently adjusted to these events.
As general messages, the characteristics of the organization reflect in the following titles:
1. OLIMPIA: Femininity and Football!
2. Football and fair play for all of us!
3. Football, a prejudice free phenomenon!
Elements of visual identity.
Contact information:
Postal address: Cluj-Napoca , str. Cardinal Iuliu Hossu nr. 10 / 3
Tel./fax +40264439262 / +40728883594
Mihai Puica(marketing and media relations )
Mirel Albon (general manager ), phone +407288853368
Alin Cioban (vicepresident), phone +40723633029