In the winter of 1987 Hagi was transferred to Romanian giants Steaua București as the team prepared for their European Super Cup final against FC Dynamo Kyiv.

However after winning the trophy, where Hagi scored the only goal of the game, Steaua did not want to release him back to Sportul Studențesc and retained him.

During his Steaua years ( 1987 – 1990 ), Hagi played 97 Liga I games, scoring 76 goals.

Midfielder Ilie Dumitrescu, striker Florin Răducioiu and genius playmaker Gheorghe Hagi, then of Steaua Bucharest, were in the squad, but it was forward Gavril Balint who would prove the hero in the first round.

Gheorghe Hagi was borrowed this way from FC Sportul Studențesc for the 1987 European Super Cup match with SK Dinamo Kiev and afterwards continued, at his will, to play for Steaua, despite his former club's opposition.

Hagi played for Sportul until 1986, when Steaua Bucureşti " borrowed " him before the final of the Champions Cup.

The two Japanese steamers sunk by the Wyoming were raised again by Chōshū in 1864 and attached to the harbor of Hagi.

Yamamoto Masao of Bizen and Miwa Kyusetsu of Hagi were designated living cultural treasures ( mukei bunkazai 無形文化財 ).

Goals from Gheorghe Hagi and Dean Saunders meant the game was finely balanced, before Wales were awarded a penalty.

At the finals, Romania were one of the most entertaining teams in the early stages with Hagi, Răducioiu and Dumitrescu on form.

With fans ' hero Gheorghe Hagi now coaching the side they were confident of getting the win they needed in Bucharest against the Balkan upstarts, but Slovenia took the lead before the hour through Mladen Rudonja.

In 2000, former Romanian legend Gheorghe Hagi rated him as one of the finest ball-playing midfielders in Europe, and in 2006, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had suggested that if he were ten years younger, Tugay's ability would make him an ideal player for the Old Trafford team.

The ‘ 80s were the best years in the team's history, due to achieving extraordinary performances ( third place in 1982 -’ 83 and second place in 1985 -’ 86 championships ) but mostly because back then stars like Marcel Coraş and Gheorghe Hagi played for Sportul.

Hagi made his debut for the Romania national team at the age of 18 in 1983 in a game against Norway played in Oslo.

Their finest hour came at the 1994 World Cup where Romania, led by playmaker Gheorghe Hagi, reached the quarterfinals by defeating South American powerhouse Argentina before losing to Sweden on a penalty shootout.

In between, Gabriel Batistuta scored a penalty, but after half-time Romania netted a superb third on the counter attack, with Hagi beating goalkeeper Luis Islas.

* Romania – Gheorghe Hagi

In his hometown-the castle town Hagi in western Japan-he is still remembered as a mystical and energetic hero, who put all his efforts into opening the way to modernization, westernization and reforms, not only in military matters but in political and social matters as well.

Yoshida Shōin is now enshrined at Shōin-jinja in Wakabayashi, Setagaya-ku ( 世田谷区若林4丁目35-1 ) in Tokyo, as well as in his birth place Hagi in Yamaguchi Prefecture ( 山口県萩市椿東1537 ).

In 2000, at the age of 35, Hagi had the best days of his career winning every possible trophy with Galatasaray.

Hagi led the Romanian team to its best ever international performance at the 1994 World Cup, where the team reached the quarterfinals before Sweden ended their run after winning the penalty shoot-out.

After performing memorably during the 1994 World Cup, Hagi was signed by FC Barcelona.

Over the years, Galatasaray, led by Hagi, managed to win the UEFA Cup after defeating Arsenal in the finals.

Four years later, after the 1998 World Cup, Hagi decided to retire from the national team, only to change his mind after a few months and play at the 2000 European Football Championship, during which he was sent off in the quarter-final loss against Italy.

Once the understudy to Romanian legend Gheorghe Hagi, it seemed that the sky was the limit for Emre as he won 4 Süper Lig titles, 2 Turkish Cups, 1 UEFA Cup, and 1 UEFA Super Cup all by the age of 21.

After the arrival of Romanian Gheorghe Hagi, Martín Vázquez decided to accept the offer of Torino F. C., but failed to settle in Italy during his two-season spell ( although he did help the team reach the 1992 UEFA Cup final ).

He was promoted to first team by Gheorghe Hagi in 2004 – 05 season, making his official debut against Bursaspor in a Turkish Cup match on 22 January 2005.

Gheorghe Hagi (; born 5 February 1965 in Săcele ) is a former Romanian footballer of Aromanian descent.

Hagi is one of the few footballers to have played for both the Spanish rival clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

Hagi played two seasons with Real Madrid and then was sold to Brescia Calcio.

Hagi started the season 1992 – 1993 with Brescia Calcio but in the first season the club was relegated to Serie B ; in the next season Hagi helped Brescia Calcio win the Italian Serie B and get promoted to Serie A.

After two years at FC Barcelona, Hagi signed for Galatasaray S. K .. At Galatasaray, he was both successful and highly popular among the Turkish supporters.

Hagi and manager Fatih Terim built a team that would win four consecutive league titles.

Hagi scored three times in the tournament, including a memorable goal in their 3 – 2 surprise defeat of South American powerhouse and previous runners-up Argentina.

In the first of Romania's group stage matches, against Colombia, Hagi scored one of the most memorable goals of that tournament, curling in a 40-yard lob over Colombian goalkeeper Oscar Córdoba who was caught out of position.

Hagi retired from professional football in 2001, age 36, in a game called " Gala Hagi " on 24 April.

Actor portraying Nikki Danjō, a villain from the kabuki play Sendai Hagi.

His former house is preserved as a museum near the Shoin Jinja, in Hagi city, Yamaguchi prefecture.

In the Japanese tea ceremony, the pottery items used are often rustic and simple-looking, e. g. Hagi ware, with shapes that are not quite symmetrical, and colors or textures that appear to emphasize an unrefined or simple style.

: Dinamo and Steaua both started their inaugural seasons in the top-flight, and they were never relegated.

He was sacked on 25 February 2005 after Valencia were knocked out of the UEFA Cup by Steaua Bucureşti.

Having just failed to make the group stages of the Champions League & UEFA Cup in 2004, Shels brought in big name players for the 2005 season, but only finished third in the league and lost to Linfield in the first ever Setanta Cup Final at Tolka Park, after beating Glentoran in the first qualifying round of the Champions League they were knocked out 4 – 1 on aggregate by Romanian club Steaua Bucharest, despite holding the Romanian side to a 0 – 0 draw in the first leg at Tolka Park.

Stadiums that temporarily moved the team (" Giulești ", " Unirea " or " Dinamo "), even if it was considered the host team, were not included: Stadionul Venus, Stadionul ONEF (" ANEF "), Stadionul Republicii, Stadionul Național and Stadionul Steaua.

Exceptions were the 1986 European Cup Final in which Steaua wore, for the only time in their history, an all-white kit, the 1999 – 00 away kit ( yellow and red ), the 2005 – 06 third kit ( yellow and black ) and the 2008 – 09 away kit ( all yellow ).

On 30 August 2007 in Monaco, they were drawn in Group H along with Arsenal, Steaua Bucharest and Sevilla.

Top players were employed in the army or the police, whose sides Steaua and Dynamo sides who practised six days a week in superb sporting centres.

Pat's this time won games against Valletta FC and Russian Premier League side Krylia Sovetov to reach the play-off round where they were defeated by FC Steaua București.

However, in October 2006 he decided to enroll himself as part of UT Arad team were he was also coach until 2007 before he joined Steaua Bucureşti.

Motherwell were then knocked out by Romanian side FC Steaua București 6 – 1 on aggregate.

Apart from a 1 – 0 win over Politehnica Iaşi, there were losses to Steaua Bucureşti ( 1 – 3 ) and Dinamo Bucureşti ( 0 – 2 ).

Their form was not as good in the second half of the season, and they were overtaken by Steaua Bucureşti with two games remaining.

In the UEFA Cup, Middlesbrough were losing on aggregate in the second legs of both the quarter and semi-final ties against FC Basel and FC Steaua Bucureşti respectively.

On 29 October 2007, his funeral ceremony, held at St. George's Cathedral and at St. George's Military Cemetery, was attended by more than 5, 000 people ( including Nicolae Dică & Adrian Neaga from Steaua Bucharest and Dănuț Coman from Rapid Bucharest who were coached by Dobrin in their youth years ).