Article by Alexandru Barbu – published Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 12:17 / Updated Tuesday, May 27, 2025 12:18
Why did the mayor of the city argue for the capital's television and who is right.
FC Voluntari is close to return to Liga 1, after defeated Unirea Slobozia with 2-1 in the first leg of the maintenance/promotion dam.
Florentin Pandele accidentally buttoned until the first sport 1 and, with a defective attitude, was indignant, even revolted by the comments made by Bogdan Cosmescu and Dan Udrea. The journalists supported – correctly – that the millions of euros invested in a club with hundreds of spectators have no weather.
In turn, Pandele does not make mistakes when he says he cannot force Volunteers to buy tickets. Only he omits to say that the same citizens “obliges” them to pay taxes and taxes including a team that they are not interested in.
210 spectatorsThey attended in January 2024 at a Liga 1 match between Volunteers and Steel. The arena that bears the name of Anghel Iordănescu is filled when FCSB, Dinamo, Rapid comes
“Let's see whether or not it is worth keeping the big team in the first league.” A phrase that Florentin Pandele threw at one point. Of “anger”. Of course, he later nuanced, in fact he is not going to stop the investment. How to cancel the sports merit?
To separate the facts. With arguments
Further, they are tense with the hundreds of children and juniors who make football on the fields of Voluntari. It is formidable that the kids go to sports regularly, but what is the connection between them and the first team? Since the volunteer has not launched any top footballer in the 15 years since its establishment, there is no connection. None of Pîrvu's holders last night comes from his own academy.
FC Voluntari swallowed, only last year, 3.6 million euros from the local budget of the city. Public financing for the last 7 years reaches 18.5 million euros. Obviously, much of the amount returned to the club that fought with Craiova University, with CFR Cluj, not to the children from the Academy.
Florentin Pandele, the mayor of Voluntari, photo: Agerpres
Volunteers exist today because it has managed to soften the regulation. It's not a unique case. U Cluj, Gloria Buzău, Poli Iași are in the same situation. The difference between these clubs and CSA Steaua, still without the right of promotion, is a form, not a background. All are fed from public money. FC Voluntari is just a piece of an absurd system, in which the depriveds are able to fight the town halls and ministries they also finance.
The intervention of over 20 minutes of the mayor of Voluntari attracts 3 conclusions
received: It is excellent that a city in Romania allocates resources, space and infrastructure for hundreds, thousands of children to play sports. That must continue.
The second: FC Voluntari, the club that is preparing to return to Liga 1, not a mirror of the Academy, so it spends millions of euros and should disappear if it does not represent a purpose of the Center for Children and Junior. The reason? No one would feel lacking.
Third: As long as Pandele is continuously chosen the mayor of volunteer for 25 years, he is legitimized to do absolutely everything he wants.
