“Shame, you lied! The limit of height for you” / “logic fragments! I have forbidden you and you have frustrations”

Former referees have brought several serious accusations. Balaj reproached Abram that he was favored by his father, Vasile Avram, former head of the Central Referee Commission. Avram replied by telling you to the president of Gruia that he was licking his father, but also that other unmatched persons put pressure on his behalf.

The dispute degenerated quickly, each of the two accusing the other of lack of consistency, external influences and non-professional behavior. Balaj reproached Abram that he had been protected and supported by interventions outside the arbitration, including his own family, while he was the victim of high -level obscure agreements.

Avram, on the other hand, defended itself by saying that it has no connection with such games and that all the accusations are unfounded. He suggested that Balaj is emotionally affected by some episodes of the past and that he is trying now, years later, to regulate personal accounts in public. Cristi Balaj also claimed that he received “threats” to receive in his brigade Avram, which he accused and of the fact that he benefited from removing the height criterion for arbitrators.

All this comes in the context in which Balaj suggested to Avram “not to start it”, after he considered the decision to grant a penalty at the controversial phase in FCSB-U Cluj 1-0, when the contact between Simion and Bîrligea in the box resulted in a decisive penalty for the red-blue band.

Integral dialogue, played by GSP:

Cristi Balaj: “Yes, and?! I think it would be ashamed to go out on the street if I started talking. He was a collateral victim who took advantage of everything that happened when I was a referee. If he would say about him and what I suffered, he was a collateral victim. I am referring here to the former president of the CCA of that period, they probably did not respect ”.

Marius Avram: “I did not mention your name, nor the name of CFR Cluj. I did only an analysis of a phase in which CFR was not involved, but a phase of other teams. From there, I was threatened by you,” he said in the “Football Club” from Digi Sport, where he was invited to the set. Balaj intervened by telephone, shortly after the end of the match won by his team in the company of Craiova.

Cristi Balaj: “At that show I was invited to discuss, I talked about the phase from the FCSB – CFR Cluj match, to which I made a comparison with what happened at the last FCSB – Cluj University and I said I am deeply disappointed. Because if it is a penalty and we use terms such as” in circumstances ” The lime referee is called only when it is a major, clear mistake, not when there are circumstances”.

Marius Avram: “I said exactly the same thing.”

Cristi Balaj: “Then Marius, you said that, from your point of view, it is a clear penalty, and I said I am deeply disappointed with the analysis. The defender comes from a distance, directly takes the arm to the opponent's head and pushes it. If there is no lime intervention, it should not be at the FCSB – U Cluj match. I am deeply disappointed with the analysis done, being the same team and the same regulation.

The moderator told me that Marius Avram is upset. When I refer to “on”, I mean what I lived when I was a referee, when the CCA chief was his father. He took advantage of an exchange that the president of the CCA of that period did: a barter at UEFA. I was called members of the UEFA referees commission from that period, disappointed with what happened and I didn't understand. I was relegated. There were discussions to reach the talent program. ”

Marius Avram: “I have no idea what you are talking about. I have never been in the talent program.”

Cristi Balaj: “This was the troch that was done.”

Marius Avram: “I was not in the talent program. Please talk about my father.”

Cristi Balaj: “I speak of the chief of CCA, not your father.”

Marius Avram: “You said” not to start you “, and you talk about a president of the CCA, attacking me.

• Vasile Avram was appointed chairman of the Central Commission of Referees (CCA) in August 2009, after the resignation of Aron Huzu. It was replaced on January 25, 2010 to be appointed vice -president of the Romanian Football Federation. Later, he returned to the position of president of the CCA, but in September 2011 he was arrested on charges of taking bribes, being replaced in October 2011 by Ion Crăciunescu.

Cristi Balaj: “And there is something else: I was deeply disappointed when you lied. Witnesses are my colleagues in the brigade, when you said that Zoltan Szekely misinformed me in the match in Copenhagen, when I had to give Valdes a red card. You should prove more man. ”

• The match referred to by Cristi Balaj took place on November 2, 2010: Copenhagen – Barcelona 1-1, the fourth stage of the group phase. Claudemir and Messi managed the goals in the match.

• Cristi Balaj was “Central”, with Zoltan Székely and Sebastian Gheorghe at the two lines. Reserve was Augustus Constantin, and additional assistants were Marius Avram and Istvan Kovacs.

• In the 12th minute of the match that was played in Denmark, at an attack by FC Copenhagen, with ladies N'Doye in the foreground, the goalkeeper of FC Barcelona, ​​Victor Valdes, came to meet him, outside the box and, trying to retain the ball, hit his foot on the head. The Romanian Cristian Balaj, the referee of the meeting, did not warn the goalkeeper of the Catalans.

Marius Avram: “You have some deep frustrations. You should make your decisions in the field, not to blame one or the other. Whether or not you are the president of CFR Cluj, I observe a logic break in analysis. At the FCSB – CFR Cluj phase you said that penalty had to be granted. After the match, now you say no. You had to stay consistent. “

Cristi Balaj: “Logic break for you, Mr. Marius Avram”.

Marius Avram: “I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't know about a barter.”

Cristi Balaj: “The reason I said there is no penalty at FCSB – Cluj University is that you and the people from the CCA Commission said it is” too little “. Being a similar phase, we waited to be a similar judgment”.

Marius Avram: “If you are a man, keep your point of view. From the frustration in which I forbade you to give me more messages at night, you were upset. You have something personal with me. “

Cristi Balaj: “Mr. Marius Avram, I want to tell you the following thing: Why didn't you mind sending messages late, during the time you were a referee and send me messages when I was an analyst? Now what happened? Did your spouse fall? I had different opinions, different opinions. It seemed to me to move the way he disturbed you. I can't be upset. “

Marius Avram: “So you are upset and attack me because you are angry. I do not like to argue with former colleagues. I am attacked for free and threatened unprovocated. I have never done analysis analysis. Analysis of another's analysis … I think I would disqualify. If I am integral and I trust my analysis.”

Cristi Balaj: “I think it was a lack of respect for me.”

Marius Avram: “I could talk face to face.”

Cristi Balaj: “I am the same Cristi Balaj who sent messages when I was an analyst and you will.”

Marius Avram: “I also receive messages from the referees now.”

Cristi Balaj: “If I send you messages referees … I understand. Make sense now.”

Marius Avram: “I tell you not to stop. Continue and show us the real face. Give everything out of you, pour everything, offend, attack, threaten, look as you really are.

Cristi Balaj: “I showed the real face and when I gave up the pressures-not to tell the threats-when I took you in the brigade.”

Marius Avram: “This is how you showed your real face and when, from the moment your father was no longer president, you did not take me in the brigade.”

Cristi Balaj: “I regret when I gave up the pressures and threats.”

Marius Avram: “Cristi Balaj, you had more” fathers “and I might start and stop stopping, with all the phones that were given, who was giving them to support you-even members of your own family sounded the president for licking on the phone. I know all these things about you. “

Cristi Balaj: “I didn't have a father involved in football. You confuse me. And I did not change the height limit so I could reach the referee. “

This was the moment when Radu Naum, the moderator of the “Football Club” show from Digi Sport, stopped the conflict between the two.