Article by Alexandru Tomuțiu – published Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 20:02 / Updated Wednesday, June 11, 2025 20:06
Former midfielder Marcel Pușcaș (64) is the one to whom Marcel Sabou, deceased two days agohe finished his career. The former leader of FCU Craiova posted a disturbing message in which he told the times he went through.
The mentioned event happened in 1985, when Pușcaș evolved for Rapid, while Sabou made his football debut at Poli Timișoara. The two teams met in Timisoara, and Rapid won 3-1. An extremely harsh entry of Sabou had a terrible verdict for the prison: Double open and comminutive fracture of tibia and peroneum. He could no longer play football at the professional level.
The then regulation said that Sabou should have been on the edge exactly as much as he stood, that is, two years, but the former leader from FCU Craiova gave him to play faster. Pășcaș remembers bitterly how Sabou did not look for it at all after receiving the necessary paper to play.
Marcel Pușcaș, message after Marcel Sabou's death: “What kind of man can you be to treat a problem and a being?”
“Marcel Sobou, a death and two destinies. I found the news of Marcel Sabou's death. Life gave us a meeting on a football stadium. It happened on 19.09.1985, almost 40 years ago, in a Poli Timișoara-Rapid match (1-3), with over 30,000 people in the tribune. Marcel Sabou broke my foot after a brutal attack, worthy of those capable of this.
Double open and comminutive fracture of tibia and peroneum was the diagnosis. My leg was just holding in my skin. My life at that time has changed radically. On the hospital bed, in Timisoara, I was sedated daily. The pains were terrible, and the thoughts and indescribable suffering. I do not want the enemies to go through such moments. For about 10 days, the Sabou imberb came to see me daily.
It was 20-30 minutes on the edge of my bed and looked empty. “Forgive me, please!”, Repeat me daily. I thought he was driven by the real feeling of guilt. The regulation at that time forced him to return to official games only when I had done it. That is, over 2 years. After the 10 days in which the morphine had been shot, I gave that paper to play football.
He didn't even thank me. Went out on the salon door and was taken was. For me there were 2 other operations and 9 months of crutches and for him a transfer to Dinamo. For me, the abandonment of performance football followed, for him the escape from the country and matches in the championship of Spain and Portugal. I without perspective, and he with everything. Since September 30, 1985 I have not seen him before, I have not communicated.
He broke, on the Romanian. Maybe a phone, a Christmas greeting would have caught me. Where? I struggled a lot and the memories are still overwhelmed. I do not know what would have followed if I played, as I do not know what would have followed for him if I did not give that paper absolutely necessary to continue the career. I had heard he became a good footballer. Good!
The unscrupulous and remorseful attitude often put me on my thoughts. More than the injury itself. What kind of man can you be to treat a problem and a being? The course of my life has become another. Without playing. And today my hip hurts because of the fracture. I was thinking of him, wanting to, he seemed to do not.
I didn't hate him, I didn't cursed him. I finally told myself that God wanted. He and only he takes something and gives you something else. He gave me 40 years of suffering and only 12 years old. Now at the separation I can tell him that he was sad, made me suffer, but thank you for changing my life.
I have been much richer since I “met” Marcel Sabou. That was it. I forgave you for a long time! God forgive you! Rest in peace! ”, Wrote Marcel Pușcaș, on Facebook.
