Romania U21 trained on a “county” stadium, where access is made through a bar + soul gesture of “tricolors”

The training was carried out on the stadium of the local team FK Raca, a team that finished 9th in 16 in the third step in Slovakia. The facilities of the complex are deficient, well below those from Buffaa, for example.

• The European U21 Championship will take place in Slovakia, between 11 and 28 June, and the Sports Gazette will move a team of four reporters on the spot.

• Romania U21 was placed in group A, along with Spain and Italy, two of the favorites winning the tournament, plus the host country Slovakia.

Photo. Romania U21, training two days before the debut at the European Championship in Slovakia

In an indulgence time for this period, with thermometers indicating 20 degrees in the capital of Slovakia, Romania's players made retouching before the duels with Italy, Spain and Slovakiathe host of the competition, under the careful supervision of “Pancone”, which will be suspended for the first two parties, after the volcanic exit from Giulești, against Switzerland.

The atmosphere was relaxed, seeing many smiles on the faces of the small “tricolors”, who performed some basic exercises in the beginning minutes of the training session.

According to the German model, the players went out for a huge banner with the message “Thank you!” and the logos of all the teams who gave players in the qualifying campaign for what.

There followed a speech by “Pancone”, which seemed a little less tense than the cantonment period in Austria. It lasted about 10 minutes.

Before he received his players to the grass thread he juggled with the balloon, reaching 30-40 doublesmoment when he was interrupted by a staff member.

After a few heating exercises and a light run, followed a speed testeverything under the careful supervision of Vlad Nicoara, the physical trainer of the team.

What happens to Louis Munteanu

Louis Munteanu's situation is uncertain. It is a special treatment, being a foot injection. The doctors of the national team are waiting to see how the training will respond. Depending on this, it will either play from the first minute with Italy, or the coach can rely on at least the second half.

Munteanu initially was part of the team of the national senior and had to be in the lot with Austria. He was injured in a training and left the cantonment of Mircea Lucescu's team, joining the U21 selection.

“Louis Munteanu has not yet trained with us, today he will reach the ball, but separately. We still have two workouts tomorrow. We see his condition, because we could not risk something would be good for us, because we will play at least 3 matches at this final tournament. Surely nothing ends after the match with Italy and we will have to be very careful, “said Daniel Pancu about the situation of the” spear peak “in the U21 gear.

In the first part of today's training, Louis Munteanu trained normal. He was even penalized with floats by the physical trainer, after not registering the best times for an exercise.

The press access is made through a bar!

After a road of several hundred meters, full of craters, we arrived at the “County” stadium, where access to the press table is done directly through a bar, which serves as an official stand.

There are around 150 chairs, and access to the rest of the small arena in Bratislava is made on concrete places. However, the playing surface was under optimal conditions, This is probably the reason why the delegation of “small tricolors” chose to train here.

The locker room is modest, with wooden benches and customized by FRF with the message “Every match is stories. We fight together until the end!”. Four elderly stewards provided security around the arena.

In 2023, Rapid played a friendly against the local team, won by Giulesti with 5-0.

Training was open to the public

“See you with tricolors in Bratislava! Today's training, scheduled from 6:30 pm, will be open in the first 15 minutes and the public! We are waiting for you at the Base Futbalový Klub Raca in Bratislava! On June 11, in Trnava, we debut at Euro 2025 in front of Italy! The price of tickets for Romania's matches are between 12 and 15 euros.

For a package with at least one ticket bought at the three matches of Romania in the group stage, a 20%discount is granted. Children between the ages of 6 and 15 benefit from a discount of 50% of the ticket price, and people over 65 years old by a discount of 20% ”, The FRF transmitted before today's training.

The stands were not “stored” by the national supporters, but around 10-15 Romanian supporters were present.

The complete program of the matches in the “tricolor” group:

• Wednesday, June 11th: Italy – Romania (Trnava, 22:00)

• Saturday, June 14: Spain – Romania (Bratislava, 7:00 pm)

• Tuesday, June 17: Romania – Slovakia (Bratislava, 22:00)