Cav's Place

Some might have expected things to be different today, when Cristina Neagu played the first match after announcing her retirement at the end of the season, especially since she’s still chasing Jovanka Radicevic, who also announced her retirement at the end of the season, when it comes to the most goals scored in the Champions’ League, but they definitely weren’t, and she keeps proving that she’s playing for the team and not chasing records or personal titles. I mean, she didn’t even take any of the penalty shots… But that doesn’t stop the rest of us from noticing that, despite only scoring three goals today, she still reduced the difference, Jovanka scoring just one in Krim’s match.
Of course, a proper way to end her career would be for CSM Bucuresti to obtain a good result in this year’s Champions’ League. Not that it’d make up for the fact that she couldn’t play at the Olympics, Romania having failed to qualify, plus that, at this early stage of the competition, a good result seems even less likely than it was last year, when I was saying that they should have pushed for a good result but didn’t seem capable of it, and indeed stopped in the quarter-finals, losing both matches against Metz. But maybe they’ll somehow produce a pleasant surprise and at least get past that stage, which I’d say would be an achievement to be proud of at the present time.