Costel Gâlcă brought to Rapid the “traitor” of Mirel Rădoi

Article by Maria Olteanu – published Tuesday, June 03, 2025, 15:06 / Updated Tuesday, June 3, 2025 15:07
Constantin Gâlcă (53) was officially presented at Rapidsigning a two -year contract with Dan Șucu's team. He also finalized his technical staff, bringing him with him, in Giulești, including Marius Francisc, the video analyst accused by Mirel Rădoi to offer details from the locker room to FCSB.
Gâlcă took the place left free by Marius Șumudică and when he was presented, the people he will have with the project from Rapid: Dumitru Ustunea and Ciprian Niță – Second coaches, Dumitru Hotoboc – Portarii trainer, Marius Francis – video analyst and Ciprian Pruna and Roberto Berruero –
Video Analist Marius Francis was last at Craiova University, from where it was removed in mid -March.

Marius Francisc comes with Gâlcă to Rapid
In June 2023, Marius Francis left FCSB in Craiova. At that time, Mihai Stoica, the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Red-Baskets, was surprised by this move, as he did not know that it was to be produced.
In Bănie, Marius Francis stayed until March, when after a failure with FCSB, score 0-1, in the last stage of the regular season, the contract was concluded, after the Oltenian technician, Mirel Rădoi, made a series of statements that he understood that he has a spy in the locker room.
Before coming to the team, Marius Francisc worked with Costel Gâlcă, who was A1 on Mihai Rotaru's team between April 2024 – January 2025.

Marius Francis, at the #200 match in Liga 1 // Photo source: Facebook
After the removal of Marius Francis, the post of video analyst was taken over by Denis Rădoi, the son of Mirel.
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From the staff that Marius Șumudică had at Rapid, the coach with the goalkeepers, Dumitru Hotoboc, and the physical trainer Roberto Berruero, were left in Gâlcă's team;
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Gâlcă brought with him the second coach Dumitru Usunea and the physical trainer Ciprian Pruna, with whom he worked in Craiova.




