Article by Maria Olteanu – published on Thursday, April 10, 2025, 08:05 / Updated Thursday, April 10, 2025 08:05
Jovan Markovic (24 years old), the attacker borrowed by Craiova University at Otelul Galați, is thinking at the end of the competition season and at the time of returning to Banie, wishing to play again with the team he says “will always remain my soul team”.
Markovic was a basic man in Olteni, but a few medical problems and a form decrease made him lose his place in “the first 11”. In the current edition he checked only one match in Craiova, a match in which he remained on the reserve bench, unused, even in the first stage of the new season.
Later, after he did not enter the plans of Costel Gâlcă, he was borrowed at Hermannstadt, but after two matches, in which he played 90 minutes gathered, he broke his meniscus and became unavailable, the misfortune being a chain by the Romanian player born in Belgrade.
Jovan Markovic returns in the summer to Craiova
After the less successful experience from Hermannstadt, in February he reached an agreement with Steel Galați, also in the form of a loan, where he will remain until the end of this season.
However, he thinks about returning to Bănie that would take place in the summer if everything goes according to the plan.
“I had a discussion with Mr. Gâlcă and said he was not based on myself. I asked to leave. To play. That was the dance decision and I respected it.
I felt disappointment. It's, because I wanted to play at home, my soul team. It will stay all the time and I wanted to play there, but if you can't try to play, get experience.
They know what they are doing, I'm talking to them every day. Yes it's less, I hope to make a beautiful figure here and in the summer to go back
Jovan Markovic, photo: Imago Images
It's a play-off as tightly. I would be happy and I hope to win, because the championship has not been earned for a long time and it would be a holiday in Craiova, but it is quite difficult, because there are few points and, if you do not win a few points in a row, it is difficult.
I, as far as I know, mystery (no – Mirel Rădoi) is a very calculated coach, he knows what he does. I say he came with a change and to see and wish him success, to take the championship with Craiova.
What crazy a few now, when the Romanian Cup was won … you had no place on the streets, it will be crazy, if the camp is won. In Oltenia, football is eaten on bread, the world is crazy and, if the championship was won, it would be a holiday, “said Jovan Markovic, quoted by Orange.ro.
Problems in the past between Rădoi and Markovic
However, despite Markovic's desire to return to Banie in a few months, the problems he had with the current coach of Craiova, Mirel Rădoi, cannot be forgotten.
In November 2022, in the first term in Craiova, Rădoi did not accept the behavior of four of his students and made a drastic decision: the exclusion from the lot. Among them was Jovan Markovic.
Even if the leadership had sent him some signals to assign him to return to better feelings opposite his players, Rădoi didn't even want to hear and stayed firmly in positions. He did not tolerate the acts of indiscipline and said that he had already offered them a second chance, which they had not taken advantage of.
“If someone is believed above, they are bitterly deceived. As long as I will be here, I decide the regulation, indolence, sufficiency. I am not to pray to anyone. All players should understand. If they have not understood so far, their problem is strict.
I give them a second chance, I was wrong as a player. But the third time I'm sorry, you have to leave. I'm not going to pray for any player. I can't stay every day to weigh them. I take them one at a time, each one received chances, I have nothing with any of them, ”said the Oltenian technician at that time.
Meanwhile, all the four targeted players left Craiova, but Jovan Markovic and Andrei Ivan will return to the summer, in Bănie, considering that they are just borrowed.
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