Lucescu made “Package” on Vassaras! He reproaches his failure with Bosnia: “He had to make sure that the referee is not against us!” »Prunea, dismayed in the studio:” Wow! Something?! “
Article by Daniel Grigore, George Nistor – published on Thursday, May 15, 2025 20:18 / Updated Thursday, May 15, 2025 20:32
Mircea Lucescu (79 years old) He was upset with Kyros Vassaras, the head of the Central Referee Commission, because he did not intervene to ensure that we will not have a hostile arbitration at the match with Bosnia and Herzegovina (0-1), in the first round of group H of the World Cup preliminaries of 2026.
The coach would have wanted the Greek official, depending on 2014, to put high pressure so that Romania was not revealed in the match that opened the qualifying campaign at the World Championship. The “tricolors” were refused a penalty by the Dutch “central” Danny Makkelie, and at the goal of the void you could be dictated off.
Mircea Lucescu did “pack” on Kyros Vassaras: “Be sure that the man is not against you!”
technician He reproached Kyros Vassaras that he did not make sure that the referee of the party will not be opposed to the match against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“I won 7 matches. We lost a single match, but we didn't lose it. Was lost to those who had to deal with the mistake that happened, the penalty that did not give. The chairman of our referee commission had to … all over the world …
A kind of pressure, a relationship, to be sure that when this man enters the field is not against you. It doesn't have to be with you but not against you. Everywhere happens.
If he gave a penalty, it was the 52nd minute, the game ended. I was winning it 100%. Is the coach to blame? Are the players to blame? Not! There are a lot of aspects that intervene in establishing a result, ”said Lucescu.
“With Vassaras I had only one discussion, that it was not a penalty. Everyone says I needed a penalty at that phase, they all say, they called me from Italy, they called me. Another phase, at the goal phase, that was the discussion with Vassaras, he was offender,” added the coach for Golazo.ro.
Kyros Vassaras
Danny Makkelie was helped in the two lines of coughs Hessel Steegstra and Jan de Vries, both nationals. The fourth referee was delegated Marc Nagtegaal.
At the beginning of the second half, after a center of Ianis Hagi, the ball arrived in the Bosnian box. He fell on the lawn, then Tahirovic touched the ball with his hand, after he failed to hit him.
Florin Prunea, dismayed: “Wow! Something …”
At the hearing of Mircea Lucescu's statements, Florin Prunea reacted in the Digisport studio:
“Wow! Something … to prepare the match, that is, to do what? I, as the president of the Central Referee Commission. Especially since we are talking about one of the most important people at the UEFA level. I mean instructors, referees, former arbitrators. There is no one … wow.”
After the first two rounds, the national team accumulated three points. On June 7, the selected “Il Luce” will take place with Austriafor three days later to receive the visit of Cyprus.
