Steaua to use name despite legal ruling

Last week, a high court ruling in Romania decreed that the club, founded in 1947 as an army side, were no longer able to use the Steaua trademark.

That announcement came as a result of a legal tussle with the country's defence ministry, who claimed that the reigning Romanian champions had been using the trademark illegally.

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