Club Atletic Oradea
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| Full name | Club Atletic Oradea | ||
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| Short name | CA Oradea, CAO, NAC | ||
| Founded | 25 May 1910 as Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club 17 March 2017 (refounded) | ||
| Ground | Baza Sportivă Paleu | ||
| Capacity | 1,500 (300 seated) | ||
| Chairman | Florin Mal | ||
| Manager | Imre Lukács | ||
| League | Liga IV | ||
| 2022–23 | Liga IV, Bihor County, 9th of 21 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Club Atletic Oradea (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club) (Romanian pronunciation: [ˌklub aˈtletik oˈrade̯a]), commonly known as CA Oradea (Nagyváradi AC), or simply as CAO (NAC), is a Romanian football club based in Oradea, Bihor County, which competes in the Liga IV.
The team was founded as Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club in 1910, when the city was part of Austria-Hungary. Over its history, Club Atletic Oradea won once the Hungary national title, the Romania national title and the Romania national cup. The Romanian title won in 1949, under the name of ICO Oradea, put the club based in Oradea in a select group of football clubs that won the national title in two different countries, together with Austrian side Rapid Wien, which also won the German national title, in 1941.
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Dissolved in 1963, by the same communist regime, Club Atletic Oradea was re-established in the summer of 2017, as a football club ruled by a private management. In the same year CA Oradea was enrolled in the fifth tier (Liga V) and after only three years promoted back to the national divisions (Liga III), after 58 years of absence.
History
Early years, on the road (1910–1940)
The game of football had arrived to Nagyvárad (Oradea) in 1902 together with inhabitants that returned from study or work, from abroad or from Budapest. The first football match that was ever played on the banks of Crișul Repede river was a friendly one and was held in the Rhédey Garden. The game was gaining in popularity fast, but there was not yet an organized club to represent the town in matches against other towns. This organizational problem led to the establishment of Nagyváradi Sport Egyesület (NSE), then appeared Nagyváradi Torna Club (NTK), both multi-sport clubs, but none focused mainly on football. Then, eight years after that first football match played in Oradea's history, Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club (NAC) – in Romanian: Club Atletic Oradea (CAO) was established, also a multi-sport club, but with the football section as the "pearl of the crown".
The constituent assembly was held on 25 May 1910, in the EMKE Café (today Astoria Hotel), a place that also had an important contribution in the identity, bohemianism and cosmopolitanism of the football club. EMKE (Erdélyi Magyar Közművelődési Egyesület) Café, translated as the Coffee Shop of the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transylvania Coffee Shop, was the place where the Oradea's cultural elite spent much of its time, one of the main clients being the well-known poet Endre Ady.[1] Back to the football club, the first board of directors was formed of: Dr. Emil Jonas (chairman), Béla Mikló (executive president), Andor Szabo (secretary) and Dr. Kálmán Kovács (cashier), one of the decision took also in that first day was to submit the documents for registration at the Hungarian Football Federation.[2]
On 31 July 1910, NAC played its first game, against KVSC, and in January 1912 a home ground was secured, in the Rhédey Garden. The next month, a touring team from England came to town: Bishop Auckland, the Northern League champions that season, NAC won with an incredible 8–0. Before World War I, the club activated only on local and a regional level, they joined the eastern division of the Southern Hungarian League and in 1913 NAC won 25 out of 31 matches. One of the most important games for the local community, in this period, was the match against Hungarian giant, Ferencváros, played in Nagyvárad, on 6 July 1913 and lost honorable by NAC, with the score of 2–4.[2]
During World War I (1914–1918), the football competitions were suspended, and the club suffered from the lack of activity. However, friendly matches and different sporting activities were held, even in that tough situation and with all the problems generated by world conflagration.
After the war, by the Treaty of Trianon Nagyvárad became part of Romania and officially became Oradea. The club and the city were still dominated by Hungarians. One of the most talented local players unearthed during this period was Elemér Berkessy (future FC Barcelona midfielder and Grimsby Town manager – in 1954 he became the first foreign manager in the English league).
The team joined the Romania national championship in 1921–22, but NAC – now also known as Clubul Atletic Oradea – was beaten in the "fight" for Town of Oradea champion title by Stăruința Oradea and then by Înțelegerea Oradea for the first few seasons, thus did not qualify for the national finals until 1923–24. They beat Universitatea Cluj and Jahn Cernăuți, before it was defeated in the final by Chinezul Timișoara – who would win the first six Romanian titles after the Great Union.
In 1932–33, after another spell confined to the regional tournament, CAO appeared in an expanded national competition, organized as two parallel leagues of seven teams; they finished second in their division, while local rivals Crișana Oradea came third in the other one. Two years later, with the national league reorganized into one division, CAO finished as runners-up, sandwiched between the two dominant clubs of the period,
In 1932, the management of the club decided that contact with football in other countries would help the development of the sport in Oradea. So, they undertook a twelve-match tour in France and Switzerland, during which they beat (score 5–2) Olympique Lillois, who would become in that season the inaugural French national champions, and obtained a 3–3 draw against Marseille. In the following year, the tour was in France and its North African colonies, and Oradea was spreading its fame with 21 victories and 4 draws, 110 goals scored and only 23 conceded. During the interwar period, CAO supplied eighteen Romanian internationals, however the majority were still ethnic Hungarians, Jews and Germans.
Players who starred in CAO's green and white stripes in this period included:
Club Atletic Oradea's team that participated in the 1932 and 1933 Tours of France, Switzerland and North Africa was formed of: Ștefan Czinczer – Andrei Glanzmann, Iosif Bartha, Vasile Chiroiu, Iuliu Bodola, József Moravetz, Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Elemér Kocsis, Nicolae Kovács, Ferenc Rónay, Takács, Kraus, Nicolae Roșculeț and János Remmer (player and coach).
The Romanian-Hungarian champion (1940–1949)
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The Second Vienna Award in August 1940 annexed northern Transylvania, including Oradea, to Hitler's ally Hungary, while Romania was in the throes of its own right-wing military dictatorship. Many footballers of German or Hungarian origin who were at clubs in Bucharest, Timișoara, Arad or other parts of Romania, crossed the new border into this region and joined clubs in Oradea (Nagyvárad) or Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár); many of them signed for CAO – now, once again, known officially by its Hungarian name, NAC. After one season back in a Transylvanian league, NAC was promoted to the Hungarian top division. They finished second in 1942–43 and then in 1943–44 they became the first team from outside Budapest to win the Hungarian championship in its 43-year history, finishing a huge 13 points ahead of the second placed team Ferencváros.
The players who helped the club to this historic achievement included some major Hungarian and Romanian footballers of the age:
Gyula Lóránt was only 20 years old during NAC's title-winning season. He went on to play at Vasas, alongside László Kubala, who in 1949 fled the incoming Communist government and formed a team of Hungarian footballers who would play exhibition matches around Western Europe. Lóránt tried to escape and join Kubala, but was captured and interred, until the national team coach secured his release. Lóránt played for Hungary from 1949 until 1955, encompassing the greatest period of Hungarian success: he played in central defense for the Aranycsapat, the Mighty Magyars of the early 1950s. Besides winning the Romanian championship with UTA Arad and three more Hungarian titles with Honvéd, Lóránt went on to coach Bayern Munich in the late 1970s.
József Pecsovszky known in Romania as Iosif Petschovschi or simply ‘Peci’, was another young member of the successful NAC team and was capped by Hungary at the age of 21. An attacking midfielder from Timișoara, of Hungarian extraction, Peci would later become a hero in Arad due to his starring role in UTA's three league titles in the 1940s, and then won two further championships with CCA București in the 1950s. His first game for Romania was against Hungary in Budapest in 1945, alongside Spielmann and Simatoc; he scored, but Hidegkuti and Puskás scored two each in a 7–2 win for the Magyars. Pecsovszky is one of the all-time greats of Romanian football.
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Francisc Spielmann, known in Hungary as Ferenc Sárvári, top-scorer for NAC in their title-winning season, with 23 goals; he was also the Hungarian player of the year.
The coach of the side throughout NAC's Hungarian period was 1920s CAO hot-shot Ferenc Rónay.
Nicolae Simatoc, a reserve, was the only ethnic Romanian in the NAC squad; he was kept out of the starting line-up by the all-Timișorean midfield of Petschovschi, Demetrovits and Juhász. Simatoc eventually would go on to spend one season alongside Kubala at FC Barcelona, as well as two years at Inter Milan.
The 1944–45 Hungarian season was abandoned after four games due to the movement of the front, and NAC never played in the Hungarian league again: Northern Transylvania was occupied by Soviet and Romanian troops in 1944 and later reverted to Romania at the end of the war. NAC/CAO changed its name to Libertatea Oradea in 1948, and then to ICO Oradea the following year after the Soviet takeover of Romania. Petschovschi, Bodola and Ronnay left for Ferar Cluj – the third-placed team in Hungary in 1943–44 - while five of the championship-winning team would form the core of a new dominant power in Romania, ITA Arad.
By 1948–49, only three players remained from the great NAC team of 1943–44. And yet ICO Oradea became Romanian champions. Gheorghe Váczi, an ethnic Hungarian who was capped by Romania, contributed 21 goals in 26 matches. They also had names such as Vécsey, Spielmann, Vasile Ion, Bodo, Zilahi, Serfözö or Mircea David and the coach in that year was Nicolae Kovács, former CAO player and brother of the Ștefan Kovács who would coach Ajax to great success in the early 1970s.
The last performance and many changes (1950–1963)
After the title won with ICO, coach Nicolae Kovács returned on the banks of Bega river, in the city where he had learn the secrets of football, but this time as the coach of Știința Timisoara, (future Politehnica Timișoara). In the place of Kovács, his former teammate from the golden squad of NAC, Gusztáv Juhász, had returned, now as a head coach of the "white and greens". The squad had not undergone major changes, but the organization of Romanian football league system had taken, with the year 1950, the total course of the Soviet model. The championship starts to be played in the spring-autumn frequency, instead of autumn-spring, then all the teams were renamed after the new agreed model, for example, the clubs supported by the army end up wearing the abbreviations "CCA", "CA" or "ASA". , the teams affiliated to the Miliția became Dinamo, in fact, Dinamo București created a real system of satellites during this period, on the entire territory of Romania, from Bacău to Brașov and from Cluj-Napoca to Slatina. Other football clubs were also renamed, as "Science" (for teams affiliated to Universities), "Miner", "Flame" or "Metal" (for football clubs affiliated to industry branches, depending on the industry they represented).[3]
In 1951, the management of the football club opted for a new change of identity, ICO was renamed as Progresul Oradea, the second important step in the plan of blurring the identity of the club. This time the club's colors were also changed from "white and green" to "blue, bleu and white" similar with the colors combination used by
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As a
However, the club's destiny had been sealed some time before this demotion, when the communist leadership of the Oradea Region decided that a new and "clean" club was needed, without a too twisted, cosmopolitan past or that could remind of times before the
New era, the same spirit (2017–present)
On 22 December 2016 CAO 1910 Association was founded, then on 17 March 2017 the association changed its status as a sports association named: Asociația Club Sportiv CAO 1910, thus marking the refoundation of the white and green team.[10] The refounding of the club was followed by a marketing promotion period, in which, among other things, the official website of the club and the Facebook official page were launched.[11][12]
Then, on 28 July 2017 a partnership was signed between CAO and CSM Oradea, the team that took over the FC Bihor Oradea youth academy after its dissolution, but which didn't have a senior squad, so through this partnership CSM Oradea ensured a continuity for the youth players at senior level and CAO assured a youth academy. In the same period the team was enrolled in Liga V.[13][14]
At the end of the season CAO had an impressive ranking line, 24 wins, one draw and only one defeat, 146 goals scored and 21 conceded, 73 points, with 15 more than their main promotion rival, Dinamo Oradea.
The second season of
In 2020, Oradea Municipality and APTOR (Local Public Association for Tourism) entered in the association, along with the already existing Oradea Renaștem Împreună Association (the association that reunite the founding members, the private sponsors and which owns Club Atletic Oradea brands, registered at the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks).[18] At the end of the first season spent in the national divisions, after 58 years of absence, CA Oradea was ranked on an honorable 4th place, out of 10, then in the summer of 2021, the club announced that will be a break up between the owners (Oradea Municipality, APTOR and Oradea Renaștem Împreună) due to a difference of opinion between the public and the private parts. Municipality of Oradea wanted a merger between the two brands, Club Atletic Oradea (owned by Oradea Renaștem Împreună) and FC Bihor Oradea (owned by the Municipality), while the private side did not agree with this and wanted to continue the Club Atletic Oradea project. The owners agreed that the private management of the club will retire from the executive management and the association will work as Club Atletic Oradea only for another season, being expected an exchange of places through which FC Bihor (supported by the public owners), will reach the third tier, while the private owners (Oradea Renaștem Împreună, the official owner of the Club Atletic Oradea brands) will continue to support the white and green club, but a division below, back in the fourth league.[19][20]
CA Oradea had a good
Crest and colours
Crest
Club Atletic Oradea's first emblem, used between 1910 and 1919, was an almost replica of River Plate crest, the differences consist of a green sash instead of a red one, and also the initials NAC (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club) wrote on diagonal, in opposition with the sash.[22] For the next 20 years (1920–1940), the club used the first logo that introduced the green stripes, positioned on a white background, inside of a brown circle. On the logo were the two initials, CAO (Club Atletic Oradea) and NAC, as a symbol of the Romanian-Hungarian culture and friendship that existed around the club.[22]
In 1930, at the 20th anniversary of the club, the administrative staff decided to make a special logo. They modified the current logo, changing the places between the white background and green lines. At the time, the club was in the Hungarian championship, so on the top of the crest appeared only NAC, as an abbreviation, wrote with gold colour. On the sides appeared the laurels and on the bottom of the logo, on two different ribbons were marked the year of foundation (1910) and the current year (1930).[22]
The last form of the logo with Hungarian influences was during the 1940s, with the same white and green stripes, now having some gold lines between them. On the top of the logo was written Nagyváradi AC, on the bottom, the year of foundation 1910 and in the middle was placed a local coat of arms.[22]
After 1945, the club was moved back in Romania, but this time under the communist regime installed by the Soviets, fact that led to the removal of any Hungarian names. The club's name, as well as the crest, were frequently changed, not less than five times in the next 20 years. Some of them were lost in time, but for example, between 1951 and 1958, when the club was known under the name of Progresul Oradea used a triangular logo, with a bleu, blue and white water tower in the middle. On the top of the crest appeared the name of the club, in red colour.[22]
In 2017, after the refoundation, the club moved back to the name of Club Atletic Oradea and the original white and green colours. The new logo uses a rounded shape, with a green background and a gold outline. Above the logo are two golden stars representing the two national titles won by the club in Hungary (1944) and Romania (1949), inside the shape appears with white letters the name of the club and the year of foundation, as well as a stylized golden shape of the Oradea's Fortress.[10]
In 2022, the club introduced a more modern variant of the logo used in the interwar period. The new logo is composed of a white shield, with green vertical stripes, having a geometric shape inspired by the emblems used both in the interwar period and in the first part of the 1940s. At the top of the logo, there are the two abbreviations so well known and confused with the club's history: CAO (Club Atletic Oradea) and NAC (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club), a symbol of diversity and good cooperation between the main peoples who contributed to the development of Oradea. The new logo also borrows two elements from the last logo (used between 2017 and 2021), the two green stars, representing the titles won in Hungary (1944) and Romania (1949), as well as the year of founding, 1910.[23]
Colours and Kits
The original colours of the club are white and green, this combination was used almost regularly with the exception of some periods, in which colours such as bleu, blue or white were printed on the kits.
The classic home kit of Club Atletic Oradea consists of a white body with green stripes, white shorts and green or white socks. After the refoundation, the club used in the first season a printed form of the original kits used by the club, as a symbolic connecting bridge of the current side with the glorious history of the squad from the banks of the Crișul Repede river. Starting with the 2019–20 season, CAO also adopted a red and blue kit, current colors of Oradea and Bihor County, city and region which it represents.
| Selection of CAO kits through history | ||||||
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         The white shirt with green stripes, white shorts and white-green socks. Worn 1943–1944 |
 The white shirt with three green stripes, white shorts and greens socks. Worn 2017–2018 |
 The white shirt with three green stripes, white shorts and white socks. Home kit worn 2018–2019 |
 The black shirt with white vertical line, green insertion and white socks. Away kit worn 2018–2019 | |||
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In the first 14 years of their existence (1910–1924), "the white and greens" used to play the home matches on the historical stadium of the city,
In 2017, after the re-establishment of the club, "the white and greens" started to play on the same Municipal Stadium, now known under the name of
Club Atletic Oradea plays its home matches on Paleu Sports Base in Paleu, with a capacity of 1,500 (300 on seats).[24] In the past, the arena was the home ground of local team FC Paleu.
Support
Club Atletic Oradea had the most important fan base in the city of Oradea, until its dissolution in 1963. The "sleeping giant" was revived in 2017, after 54 years of existence, but despite the skepticism from the beginning, the fan-base was fastly organized, mostly due to socios program of the club. In a short period of time an ultras group was also formed, under the name of "Galeria Verzilor" (The Greens).
Rivalries
CA Oradea's historical bitter rivals are Ripensia Timișoara (since the 1930s), but has also other important rivalries with teams based in the west part of Romania such as: UTA Arad or Politehnica Timișoara, rivalries established during the 1950s. In the past, CAO also had important rivals at the local level, matches against teams such as Stăruința Oradea or Crișana Oradea being recognized for their intensity.[25]
In the modern times, Club Atletic Oradea supporters maintain a bitter rivalry with Oradea-based FC Bihor Oradea, phoenix club of FC Bihor (1958). The history of FC Bihor and CAO relationship is complicated and with a lot of ups and downs, the establishment of the original FC Bihor, in 1958, meant the death of the white-greens, situation that was almost repeated in 2022. A feeling of deja vu appeared when the Municipality of Oradea opted for the establishment of a new FC Bihor Oradea, but this time, CAO survived due to its private management and resources, but was needed to enroll a league below, in the Liga IV. In the modern era, an important local rivalry, but of lower intensity, is against Lotus Băile Felix.
Youth program
In 2017, after the re-foundation, CAO formed its academy following the partnership signed with CSM Oradea, the club which took over the youth academy of Bihor Oradea after its dissolution in 2016.[26] Between 2020 and 2021, CAO–CSM Academy was coordinated by Stelian Farcău and Florin Farcaș (who was also the manager of CA Oradea's senior squad) and the coaches were Claudiu Mutu, Sorin Todea, Horea Rădulescu, Sorin Pop, Lucian Ciocan and Adrian Gongolea.[27]
In the summer of 2022, Club Atletic Oradea and CSM Oradea broke the partnership they had, "the white and greens" starting to form their own youth program, while CSM Oradea, supported by the Municipality of Oradea, starting to form their own senior squad, mainly with players that played for CAO.[23]
Honours
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First-team squad
- As of 7 March 2024[28]
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Out on loan
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U19 (Primavera) squad
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Club officials
Board of directors
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Shirt sponsors and manufacturers
| Period | Kit manufacturer | Period | Shirt partner |
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| 1910–1963 | Unknown | 1910–1963 | None |
| 2017– |  Westiment
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2017–2018 | None |
| 2018–2021 | Herald, Irnord, MarClean | ||
| 2021–2022 | Eporoton, Interioo, SAM | ||
| 2022– | Reinert, Interioo, StarStone |
Chronology of names
| Name | Period |
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| Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club (NAC) | 1910–1919 |
| Club Atletic Oradea (CAO) | 1919–1940 |
| Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club (NAC) | 1940–1945 |
| Libertatea Oradea | 1945–1948 |
| Întreprinderea Comunală Oradea (ICO) | 1948–1951 |
| Progresul Oradea | 1951–1958 |
| CS Oradea | 1958–1961 |
| Crișana Oradea | 1961–1963 |
| Club Atletic Oradea (CAO) | 2017–present |
League history
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Notable former players
The footballers enlisted below have had international cap(s) for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level.
Notable former managers
Iuliu Baratky- Nicolae Kovács
- Lajos Remmer
- Ferenc Rónay
- Camil Schertz
- Ladislau Zilahi
Management
- dr. Emil Jonas (1910–1911)
- dr. Sándor Dénes (1911–1913)
- dr. Emil Adorján (1913–1919)
- János Pelle (1921–1930)
- István Kovács & Gyula Grünstein (1930–1932)
- János Pelle & Ernö Popper (1932–1933)
- Justin Filip (1937–1938)
- János Pelle (1938–1939)
- Rezső Jeney & Béla Jancsó (1940–1941)
- Rezső Jeney & Károly Krüger (1941–1943)
- Gyula Cseuz (1944–1945)
- Ștefan Hittner (1945–1948)
- dr. Ardelean (1962–1963)
- Florin Mal (2017–2021)
- Laurențiu Danșa (2021–2022)
- Florin Mal (2022–present)
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- ^ "Echipa de fotbal FC Bihor renaşte! Primăria Oradea vrea o formaţie de prima ligă" [FC Bihor football team will be reborn! Oradea Municipality wants a first league team] (in Romanian). ebihoreanul.ro. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ "Comunicat. Povestea continua" [Press release. The story goes on] (in Romanian). caoradea.ro. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "Nagyvárad, Nagyváradi AC" [Oradea, CA Oradea] (in Hungarian). magyarfutball.hu. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Comunicat. Modificari organizatorice" [Press release. Organizational changes] (in Romanian). caoradea.ro. 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ Club Atletic Oradea și-a readus golgheterul. bihon.ro (in Romanian)
- ^ "Echipe din România interbelică – CAO. Oradea, campioana româno-maghiară" [Teams in interwar Romania – CAO Oradea, the Romanian-Hungarian champion] (in Romanian). ripensia-sport-magazin.ro. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "CSM Oradea a preluat grupele de copii ale FC Bihor și vrea să cumpere brandul clubului" [CSM Oradea took over FC Bihor's youth academy and wants to buy the club's brand] (in Romanian). ebihoreanul.ro. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Stelian Farcău, la Academia CSM Oradea" [Stelian Farcău, at the CSM Oradea Academy] (in Romanian). bihon.ro. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Prima echipă" [First squad] (in Romanian). caoradea.ro. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ "Prima echipă" [First squad] (in Romanian). caoradea.ro. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
External links
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