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Rapid is a football club of Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in 1923 by a
group of workers of the Grivita workshops under the name of "Cultural and
Sportive Association CFR" (in Romanian: Asociatia culturala si sportiva
C.F.R.).
It is the oldest of the three most important football clubs of Bucharest (the
other two being FC Steaua and FC Dinamo).
The Giulesti stadium was inaugurated on 8 June 1939. Rapid won three
Romanian championships (in 1967, 1999 and 2002) and eleven times the Cup of
Romania. |
