Article by Andrei Crăiţoiu – published on Friday, April 04, 2025, 18:27 / Updated on Friday, April 04, 20:27
Florin Călinescu, actor and television man, was the guest of this week's “Friends”. He spoke about the current state of Romanian football, but also about teams that have no right to promote, such as Steaua or Corvin. Moreover, Florin Călinescu stated that he does not agree with the policies of Răzvan Burleanu, FRF president.
– Florine, do you look at Romanian football?
– I look at these stages too. I also look at Botosani, I look at everything, and the Romanian Cup. But I can't ask the questions I would ask. I also did the process of the stage for about three years. And Wednesday and Thursday, when it was the matter of the day, I was doing the editions of Champions League. I still caught Chivu there, I still caught Mutu, I still caught Dan Petrescu, who caught big teams. We no longer catch big teams. The story with Radu Drăgușin is ok, but it's not a big team Tottenham at this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xbeb4eogbg
Florin Călinescu: “Burleanu is the culprit for the state of Romanian football”
– No, it's not. It's not the first line, it's clear.
– Ok and then what are we talking about here? Romanian football, at the moment when we speak, owes, in quotation marks, all the evil of the president of the Federation and Politics. When you come politically and you say, good, we put at the Court of Accounts, we put on the Supreme Court, we put on the Constitutional Court, that it is up to date, we put on the CNA, we put it back and we put … Well, but also in football we have to show ourselves the muscles to put one! Dem Rădulescu had in those great BDs a question. What do you recommend?
Răzvan Burleanu, confirmed in the FIFA // Photo Council: uefa.com
– Yes.
– I am not interested in the man was in table football or in women's football or football. I am interested in the president of the federation, after having the matches and with Mircea Sandu then, in multiple shows, “Dom'le, but what do you have because we are an institution of private law?”. Yes, but use national signs. The tricolor of Romania, the hymn of the country and you claim that the Romanians come to the stadiums to encourage the team. So when is your business, when do you need us? And then, why do I say that he is the guilty of the state of Romanian football today?
– Why?
– Did you see the stadiums these days? Have you seen that image with that tractor of pulling a wooden bank?
– In Buzău.
– Did I invented her that image? No, Mr. Burleanu invented it. It's not my job, it's not the job of the federation. Yes, you make the notebooks, yes? You make the notebooks, you sign the composition of the leagues. Do you have nocturnal? Do you have grass? Do you have lockers? Do you have hot water? Do you have heated lawn?
“Burleanu suits the legend that he put Dâncu, that he put Ponta!”
– Then, with which team you play five.
– I'm not interested. Ten years? We are missing ten years. Liverpool, because of Heysel, was missing about 5-6 years in Europe. It's not a tragedy. But you put things in. So when you do the license book, I think there are these questions.
– There are, only that the requirements …
– Well, do we have no champion anymore?! Yes! Until they put their radiators under the grass.
– And then, what does the federation do during this time?
– We look at handball. And the federation does patriotic work. He goes to the field of work. Burleanu takes a store, in the mall or something.
– Now, not that I defend Burleanu …
– Sir, if I go to the CNA now and I want a television license, it asks me to write a notebook. Do you have tools? Do you have money to hold the license for the first two years? Well, do you have money? Mr. Burleanu, let's do the Periș, FC Periș. That Arabic gives us some hooves with pigs. We make a team in Liga 8. Yes? And why do we do it? To give us that from the pig's degree to popularize the pigs? So the Romanian Football Federation writes the notebook, the sources of the team. The government will come to give a law too, that they meet all the time. Have you seen?
– Yes.
– He is about the legend that he put Dâncu, that he put Ponta. Why is this suitable for you? Only private money! Do you like the English championship? Leave them in Qatar. Maybe they have some grandchildren who can come to buy all Romanian football. But be the equal competition. Private money. The sources of public funding and to be the clear ones. In Târgoviște why do you make two stadiums for public money?
“Why is Corvin Hunedoara and CSA Steaua?”
– That seems to me even comical. Where there is no variety team.
-Probably has nowhere to play the Liverpool when it comes in the area or make a base. There's something horrible. Why are Corvin Hunedoara and CSA Steaua? What do they exist for? And another 3-4 who are not allowed to promote from the beginning. Me, why does the Ministry of Defense spend money with Steaua? And he also made a stadium and is not allowed.
– I don't think it's the happiest comparison Corvin with Steaua.
– Well, both are not allowed to promote, in this sense. What competition is this in which you can reach … they went, money, gasoline, hotels, cantonments, recovery money, nutrients and so on. It's like I'm Hannibal. They go to the gates of Rome and say Come on, me, back home! They at what competition do they participate in?
– It is clear, so you are against existence, CSA Steaua.
“No, I'm not against existence.” I am against Mr. Burleanu and the Romanian Football Federation. In fact, it means federation. What else to rub it! As in the time of Mircea Sandu. This is a spell that there is someone there who says, “Mr. President, I oppose!” It was Duru, a little more respect, they ejected it and so on.
