Article by Alexandru Stanciu – published Thursday, May 15, 2025, 13:12 / Updated Thursday, May 15, 2025 13:12
Ovidiu Ioanițoaia, the director of the Sports Gazette, analyzed, within the heading “Ioanițoaia to the day”, the final of the Betano Romanian Cup, won by CFR Cluj in regulatory time with Hermannstadt, score 3-2.
The director of the Gazettei Sporturii was dismayed by the fact that the band coached by Dan Petrescu received 240,000 euros following the triumph, while the opponent from the final received only 10,000 euros.
Ovidiu Ioanițoaia: “From my information, Petrescu is more ill than the world believes”
“I think it is a deserved and anticipated victory. Eventually, it is the correct division of trophies in Romanian football. FCSB came out, CFR won the cup. They are our 2 teams at the moment, with a plus for FCSB, which is the most valuable.
It was a beautiful final that seemed to have no history because CFR led 2-0 at one point and Nkololo took the target on Căbuz. If it was 3-0 in the 25th minute the final would have had no charm.
Instead, Hermannstadt managed to reduce and give the final drama, which ended very hot, with eliminations. A deserved victory, although it was obtained harder than anticipated. CFR Cluj is no longer the former team to give a goal and then defend itself with the teeth and finish the winner, at the limit, but without much worry.
Now he takes too many goals, Dan Petrescu's problem is defense. It has the most prolific attack in the championship and thanks to Louis Munteanu, but the defense creaks. The best player in the bottom line remains Camora, who is about to turn 39. It is the fixed and safest point.
At the CFR level the age begins to be a problem, both (Nr Ciprian Deac and Mario Camora) want to play. In any case, it is a change of attitude at CFR. On the other hand, congratulations to Dan Petrescu and health wishes.
From my information, Petrescu is more ill than the world thinks. He contracted a bacterium that was located in the larynx, from what I understood. Doctors begin to master it, but they fail. Dan Petrescu, and after the mother's death, needs a period to break football and take care of health.
Hermannstadt is a welded team, it is seen that it is worked, Măldărășanu's hand. A team that passes, which is well in the field, but then made the difference the value, which is on the side of the CFR.
A new participation begins in the Europa League, the route is not very complicated, at least in the competitive start. CFR wanted to win the title, so he made calculations. In a way he saved the season, however, the Cup is the second trophy in importance.
No left the most beautiful impression with those exaggerated time shootings, with players who fell to the ground and simulated all kinds of injuries. In football, as in life, without being cynical, the purpose excuses the means. The CFR was dead to win the trophy and then looked less at the way he does. It is still said about the final of the cup that it is a match that must be won, not played. If we draw a line, the victory of the CFR is deserved, “said Ovidiu Ioanițoaia.
Ovidiu Ioanițoaia, dismayed by the prizes in the final of the Romanian Cup: “I do not know who made this calculation”
“There is a matter that I do not understand. The CFR is about to take 240,000 euros for the trophy, and the finalist only 10,000. I do not know who made this calculation, but it seems aberrant.
I also think of tennis, who wins Wimbledon, Roland Garros, takes a lot of money. But it takes 2 times more, 3 times, come 5 times more than the finalist, but in the Romanian Cup the team that wins 24 times more than the team that loses the final. It does not seem logical to me, if we have some money to give, let's give it more rational.
It is the first cup of Dan Petrescu's career and in the context in which he is very sick, this cup comes very well.
(No about the chances of Marius Măldărășanu to become a coach at Rapid) I find it hard to say. The quick team is a heavy team and thanks to the gallery and due to the public. It is a hard to drive, and when the wind does not blow in the storm it is and risks shipping.
Măldărășanu is a serious coach, he did a good job in Sibiu, I do not know to what extent he can fold on Rapid, but what I understood from Daniel Niculae he will continue in Sibiu.
He is one of the most long -standing coaches in the first league. CFR was the team that exploited the fixed phases very well, it no longer has these quality. Yesterday he took a goal from the fixed phase, it is a change of approach, attitude at CFR and it is to be seen if he will give the same results. That team as a fortress that defended 1-0, now there is no match in which CFR does not take hollow, or even more, ”added the director of the Sports Gazeta.
