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23-397: It is unclear when the competition was first created, as there are no official recordings. It started in 1994, but there may already have been an edition as early as 1978. Cupa Ligii was meant to shorten the break between the end of the league season and the start of a major international competition. The competition under the name of Samsung Cup was Gheorghe Copos ' idea and was held at

46-458: A Romanian appeals court sentenced him to 3 years and 8 months in prison for fraud , tax evasion and money laundering in connection with Rapid Bucureşti football player transfers ; he was also ordered to repay the equivalent of US$ 690,000 to the football club and the Romanian state. On the 26th of March 2014, a Romanian court sentenced him to 4 years in prison for fraud , in a case regarding

69-576: A considerable number of other buildings on what is now the square. The Athénée Palace was designed by the French architect Théophile Bradeau . It was built from 1912 to 1914, in the Art Nouveau style and was one of the last buildings built in this style. It was the first building in Bucharest to use reinforced concrete construction. It was constructed on the site of the 19th century Gherasi Inn. The hotel

92-614: A controlling interest in the hotel's ownership company, Athénée Palace SA from the EBRD. In 2021, the hotel rooms in the 1965 "new wing" were fully renovated. The hotel ceased to be operated by Hilton as of midnight December 31, 2022, and joined InterContinental Hotels as the InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest on January 1, 2023. The hotel is a primary setting in Olivia Manning 's Balkan Trilogy , which

115-491: A number of the guests, had been planted." A new wing was built behind the original hotel in 1965. The project team, comprising architect Nicolae Pruncu and engineers Radu Mircea and Mihai Ionescu, encountered severe technical difficulties in binding the old building with the new one. The hotel's interiors were remodeled in 1983. The government-run Athénée Palace was damaged in the Romanian Revolution of 1989 . Some of

138-551: Is a Romanian businessman and politician, mostly known for his ownership of the Rapid București football club. Copos was vice-prime-minister between December 2004 and January 2006, and State Minister in charge with coordination of the activities in the field of business environment and small and medium-sized enterprises in the Tăriceanu government. A graduate of the communist cadres' training school Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy , he

161-499: Is currently in the works, an extensive real estate project for the construction of a 24-story office building, with 35,000 rentable square meters and estimated at over 40 million euros.He is the owner of a chain of confectionery shops, a chain of electronics shops, several hotels. George Copos took over Rapid Bucureşti in 1992. Under his ownership, the Giulești team won the championship title twice, in 1998-99 and 2002-03 seasons, and

184-768: The Romanian top division were allowed to take part. FCSB (twice) and Dinamo București were winners of the cup before being abolished again in 2017. There were three previous friendly cups held in 1994, 1998 and 2000. Those were won by Rapid București , FCM Bacău and Gloria Bistrița . From the 2014–15 season to the 2018–19 season, sister channels Look TV and Look Plus were meant to broadcast Cupa Ligii. The matches could have also been viewed on Digi Sport and Dolce Sport . Gheorghe Copos Gheorghe " George " Copos ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdʒe̯ordʒe ˈkopos] ; born 27 March 1953, in Tășnad , Satu Mare County )

207-620: The 21 years of existence of the Ana Hotels company, Copos has coordinated massive investments in the modernization of all Ana hotels. Ana Teleferic inaugurated in 2005 the "Telegondola" in Poiana Brașov , a very modern facility that transports approximately 3000 people per hour, and in 2017, it modernized the Kanzel cable cars in Poiana Brașov and the one on Mount Tâmpa in Brașov . The Ana Tower project

230-623: The Romanian Cup 4 times. The period of major success begins with bringing in Mircea Lucescu as manager, in the summer of 1997 .  In the first year, "Il Luce" wins the Cup, and in the second the championship. Copos was a member of the Conservative Party and between December 2004 and January 2006, he was a vice-prime-minister and State Minister in charge with coordination of the activities in

253-639: The Sport, Bradul and Poiana hotels in Poiana Brașov and the electric micro-motor factory in Pitești , which became Ana Imep, were bought. In 1999, the company Ana Teleferic was established, which owns and manages the cable transport facilities in Brașov and Poiana Brașov , as well as the ski area in Poiana Brașov. Also, the holding is represented on the social responsibility side by Fundația Ana, an organization concerned with charitable and humanitarian acts . Throughout

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276-511: The end of the 1993-94 season with the 18 teams of the Romanian first division and Rapid Bucharest being the winner and received a financial reward of $ 100,000. It had a friendly character and was played in 1998 and 2000 before being dropped. In April 2014, it was decided to re-establish the competition, this time with official character, starting with the 2014–15 edition . Managed by the Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal (LPF), only teams from

299-507: The field of business environment and small and medium-sized enterprises in the Tăriceanu government. On January 21, 2006, he resigned from the Conservative Party amid a corruption scandal. He maintained, however, his function as vice prime-minister and State Minister in the government. He also resigned from the government in June 2006, maintaining his function as a senator. On March 4, 2014,

322-618: The heart of Bucharest on Str. Episcopiei at the corner of Calea Victoriei on the former site of the Han Gherasi ( Han is Romanian for "inn"), the hotel faces onto the small park in front of the Romanian Athenaeum on Revolution Square . It did not originally face onto a square: at the time the hotel was built, the space that is now a small park was occupied by the Splendid Hotel, destroyed by bombing on August 24, 1944, and there were

345-585: The history of its activity, Ana Pan has gone through a reorganization of assets, expanding and diversifying its activity by building a factory that centralizes the company's entire production needs. Starting in 2001, Ana Hotels bought and modernized the Europa and Astoria hotels in Eforie Nord , as well as the Athenee Palace Hilton in Bucharest. Ana Hotels currently owns 6 hotels and 4 Spa centers.Throughout

368-514: The hotel was completely remodeled in 1945. In 1948, the Athénée Palace was nationalized by the new Communist government , who famously bugged every room, tapped every phone (and every pay phone within 800 metres (0.50 mi)), and staffed the entire hotel with informers. Dan Halpern writes, "The hotel's general director was an undercover colonel in the Securitate 's Counterespionage Directorate;

391-451: The hotel's deputy director was a colonel in the DIE, the Romanian external intelligence organization. The doormen did surveillance; the housekeeping staff photographed all documents in the guests' rooms. The prostitutes in the lobby and in the bar and in the nightclub reported directly to their employers; the free-speaking bons vivants and Romanian intellectuals hanging around the café, not to mention

414-483: The recesses of the lounge as if inviting conspiracy." The New York Times foreign correspondent C. L. Sulzberger wrote in his memoir A Long Row of Candles that as World War II was approaching, he settled into the Athénée Palace "to enjoy my wait for war… This was a comfortable establishment with excellent service…a corrupt staff always seeking to change a customer's money at black-market rates, and continual competition by ladies of easy or nonexistent virtue to share

437-579: The sale of several commercial venues to the Romanian State Lottery. InterContinental Athenee Palace Bucharest The InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest is a historic luxury hotel in Bucharest , Romania , originally opened in 1914. It was arguably Europe's most notorious den of spies in the years leading up to World War II , and only slightly less so during the Cold War . Located in

460-717: The warmth of a client's bed." "Countess" R. G. Waldeck wrote of the hotel in the same era, "Here was the heart of Bucharest, topographically, artistically, intellectually, politically—and, if you like, morally." It was also home at the time to both British spies and the Gestapo . A. L. Easterman called it the "most notorious caravanserai in all Europe. …the meeting place of the Continental spies, political conspirators, adventurers, concession hunters, and financial manipulators. " Damaged by American air raids during World War II , in April 1944,

483-618: The worst violence occurred in the square immediately in front of the hotel. The hotel closed in 1994. The Athénée Palace underwent a $ 42 million renovation from 1995 to 1997, financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development , and reopened in October 1997, managed by Hilton International, as the Athénée Palace Hilton Bucharest . In 2005, Romanian businessman George Copos , through his Ana Hotels entity, purchased

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506-513: Was completely modernized between 1935 and 1937, to designs by architect Duiliu Marcu , with the exterior redesigned in the Art Deco style. Describing the hotel as it looked in 1938, A. L. Easterman of London's Daily Express and later of the Daily Herald referred to its "heavily ornate furnishings, marble and gold pillars, great glittering chandeliers, and the deep settees placed well back in

529-763: Was in his youth a leader of the Union of Communist Youth . Copos launched into business in 1990, immediately after the revolution , establishing his first company from the Ana group of companies. It is about Ana Co. confectionery. Over time, the group of companies in the Ana holding diversified: production, import and sale of electronic and household appliances, food industry, hotel industry, tourism, production of micro electric motors, road transport, cable transport , industrial maintenance, financial investments, port services or real estate. The Flora hotel in Bucharest (became Crowne Plaza in 1998),

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