Who is the rival of Edi Iordănescu to Legia Warsaw »A former Neamț striker chooses the name of the new coach!
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 20:56 / Updated Wednesday, June 11, 2025 20:59
The Varșovia Legia, who also won the Championship in Poland in 2021, is looking for a substitute for Goncalo Feio, the 36 -year -old Portuguese coach, whose agreement ends on June 30. Edward Iordănescu, the former Romanian coach, has already been offered by the team with 15 titles in Ekstraklassa, who also negotiates with a Croatian technician.
TVP Sport has revealed that the Legia had several names on the list to name Goncalo Feio's successor, which took the team from Warsaw to the third and fifth places in the last two seasons, and is in a time crisis.
Because on June 16, the band from the capital of Poland is scheduled to meet the lot and then start the summer training, for a cantonment in Austria, where the team will meet them in verification parties on Wisła Płock, Ludogorets Razgrad and FK Jablonec.
Law Warsaw must announce the new coach until Monday!
This is why the rush to name the new coach, the quoted television station bringing two candidates to the final discussion. These are Edi Iordănescu and Igor Jovicevic, among whom the final choice will be made. Tvp Sport states that this problem will be handled directly the head of the football department of the club, Fredi Bobic.
Technical director Fredi Bobic, along with sports director Michal Zewlakov, in the stands at a match of the Warsaw / Photo: Imago
The former German international (37 selections, 10 goals) and the well-known ex-stacling, who scored for Stuttgart, Dortmund, Hertha, Hannover and several other clubs in 446 games, is 53 years old.
He has been working on the Polish group for less than two months, after being involved in Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Hertha, being for half a year in the DFL (German League) Supervisory Board.
The mission to do the technical casting belonged to former Polish international Michal Zewlakov, who is Legia's sports director. The last solution that appeared to take over the team from Warsaw, launched by the Bulgarian press, is Igor Jovicevic.
The favorite of Limassol is out. The Croatian ex-Ludogorets appears
The former coach of Shakhtar Donetsk, 51, broke up on Monday from Ludogorets Razgrad and is willing to negotiate. In the career started in 2014, the Croatian also has teams like Karpaty Lvov, Celje, Dinamo Zagreb. DNIPRO-1 and al-Raed.
Croatian Igor Jovicevic won the title in Ukraine with Shakhtar Donetsk Plus the title, Cup and Bulgaria Super Cup with Lodogorets / Photo: Imago
TVP Sport revealed that “the great favorite to be employed in Warsaw was Alexey Shpilevsky. The Legia contacted the coach Belarus in April and the discussions lasted two weeks, but the negotiations failed.
Because of the misunderstandings on the composition of the technical staff and regarding other logistics. Finally, it became clear that the former coach of Aris Limassol will not sign in Warsaw. “
It is not the first time that the coach's name on which they have arrived in 2025 offers from England and Saudi Arabia appears on Legia's radar. The Warsaw club wanted to attract him last year, during the period when the management was preparing to kick Kosta Runjaic.
The German coach immediately found a contract in series A and extended with Udinese for season 2025-2026, after finishing with the Friulian band (which Răzvan Sava defends) on the 12th place with 44 points.
