Mircea Lucescu made the decision in the case of Louis Munteanu

Ashley Davis30/04/2025

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Article by Maria Olteanu – published Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 21:27 / Updated Wednesday, April 30, 2025 21:3

Mircea Lucescu (79 years old), the coach of the national team of Romania, made the decision in the case of the striker Louis Munteanu (22 years), a player, which he did not matter to the last action of the first representative, from the debut in the preliminaries of the World Championship.

Austria – Romania, in the third stage of the World Championship preliminaries of 2026, is played in Vienna, on June 7, from 9:45 pm. The match can be watched in LiveText format on GSP.ro.

According to GSP.ro sources, Lucescu decided to call the lot, in June, on the Golgheter of Superligi, for the first duel, the one with Austria, away.

Louis Munteanu will be summoned to the first representative

Louis Munteanu had very good evolutions in the shirt of CFR Cluj and many would have expected that it would be called to the first representative of the national for the debut in the preliminaries CM 2026.

But Mircea Lucescu had other plans And he decided not to call him at that time to the team, so Louis Munteanu went to the Under 21 representative of Romania, for the last friendly matches before the final tournament this summer.

Now, according to GSP.ro information, Louis Munteanu will be called by Lucescu for traveling from Austria, but he will not stay in the lot and the second match, the one with Cyprus, on his own ground, scheduled on June 10.

After the confrontation from the seniors, with Austria, the captain of the national Under 21 will do the junction with the rest of the youth team, to participate in the European Championship in Slovakia.

On June 11, Romania U21 begins at the final tournament in the company of the similar representative of Italy.

I think about the future generation, we have to think about young players, who will come, and Louis and Matei are players who I look at, I left them at the youth, have two important matches, a final tournament, if they perform in the summer and the national senior will increase. Rather than to stand as a reserve, just as a picture, or play a few minutes with San Marino, I preferred with Pancu to let him play these two friendly with Portugal and the Netherlands

I appreciate him a lot, I think of him, to wait for the next call, he scored 20 goals, I am not interested in me, what is the problem. We play with Bosnia, a very important match, players who play abroad, a very homogeneous group, it is very difficult to make changes between them, to bring a new one and to put it.

– Mircea Lucescu, in March, after not summoning Louis Munteanu