We have a strategy to become an Academy for children and juniors, and in preparation, in addition to the football part, other elements are also important –

In order to create the framework for the best possible preparation and to fulfill another element in the realization of the Football Academy, the FC Bihor Oradea club and Judo Club Liberty Oradea signed a collaboration protocol on Wednesday, following which the groups of children and juniors from the Oradea club of football will support training once a month at the Liberty club, with the judo coaches.

“We have a strategy to become an Academy for children and juniors, and in preparation, in addition to the football part, other elements are important. Thus, we are talking about an athletic trainer, we are talking about a psychologist and today we are talking about a complementary sport, judo, a sport that can be found in training at all big clubs. We have examples of clubs like Ajax Amsterdam or FC Barcelona. Specifically, as a result of this partnership, each group of children and juniors at our club will have judo training once a month. They will train here at one of the biggest judo clubs in the country, with Florin Lascău, who we know well at what level he has reached, as an athlete he is also a world champion. Thus, he and his team will take care of the training of our athletes’, declared George Tătar, president of the FC Bihor club, after signing the collaboration protocol.

The protocol between the two clubs was signed by the two presidents, Loredana Lascău from JC Liberty and George Tătar from FC Bihor. He was signed at the Liberty club, where coach Florin Lascău led the first training session with the young footballers from FC Bihor.

Those who took part in the first training session with judo elements were the U19 juniors (coach Claudiu Mutu) and the U17s (coach Adrian Sorin Todea).

“It’s a big plus for sports in Oradea and Bihor”

“From a sporting point of view, it is a big plus for sports in Oradea and Bihor. Combining the two sports, taking skills from one sport and transferring them to the other, means that we can train the athletes much better. We can protect them, we are talking here, first of all, from injuries that can occur in stressful situations, in which the athletes must be prepared to face them. Bringing judo skills to football means less injuries, more self-confidence, more discipline. We are starting the program that the two presidents want to implement now, then we will see where we are after a few months. There are eight age categories, we will adapt the training to those age categories, so that within 3-4 years, when someone has gone through the FC Bihor Academy, we can say that that athlete is educated in terms of athlete for football, but, on the other hand, considering that judo has a very well-established moral code, to be educated for society as well’, said coach Florin Lascău, who led the first training session with the young footballers from FC Bihor.

It should be mentioned that Florin Lascău is the first non-Japanese “ennobled” as Shidoin by the Kodokan center in Tokyo. in judo this is the highest distinction, and the Shidoin title attests not only to exceptional technical and moral qualities, but also to the promotion of sport as a philosophy of life.

At the age of 11 he won his first judo trophy, at the age of 16 he was a triple national champion, at the age of 22 he became the world champion, and at the age of 54 he received the highest distinction in judo, the title of Shidoin from the Kodokan center in Tokyo. Currently he is the refereeing director of the International Judo Federation and a professor of the World Judo Academy.

In the event that formalized the collaboration between the two clubs, FC Bihor Oradea and Judo Club Liberty Oradea, in addition to the management and coaching staff from the host club JC Liberty, also participated from FC Bihor: Stelian Farcău, head of the Children’s Center and Juniors, former referee Laurenţiu Danşa, member of the AGM and psychologist Claudiu Damian.

Model from academies abroad

We are following the example of foreign academies that have chosen judo as a complementary sport, because football is athletics and judo with the ball in a short definition and we are happy that Mr. Florin Lascău together with the Liberty club responded to our request. It is a project that we want, as time goes by, to become one at the county level, so that the other clubs partnering with FC Bihor also adopt this model’, stated Stelian Farcău, the coordinator of the Children and Junior Center of at FC Bihor.

The training sessions of the young football players from FC Bihor with specific judo will take place every Wednesday at the JC Liberty hall in Ştefan cel Mare Blvd. If this week the members of the U19 and U17 groups participated, next week the U15 and U14 groups will participate, in two weeks the U13 and U12 teams will arrive, and in three weeks the U11 and U10 teams, after which the cycle will resume with the big junior teams. Press release – FC Bihor Oradea