Article by Tudor Belivaca – published on Thursday, June 12, 2025 20:44 / Updated Thursday, June 12, 2025 21:24
Victor Piţurcă (69 years old), the former coach of Romania, criticized the approach of Mircea Lucescu, after the match with Cyprus, score 2-0.
Mircea Lucescu told the press conference that he had not called the national footballers earlier in the cantonment, and they were deconcentrated. Pițurcă says now that Lucescu, at his experience, should not have become such an error.
Victor Pițurcă criticized Mircea Lucescu: “The players had too much freedom and did not have the same physical efficiency. They had to come to training every day”
“If he has time to make a reconstruction, he can do. My opinion is that he has no time. If we have not defeated Cyprus, he had time to reconstruct? I do not believe. The national team has to qualify. I remember Lucescu's style. He left for a week. Now you don't have any time. You come three days before the match, prepare the game a few months before, theoretically, more talking to the players. Before the match you don't have time!
Now I was surprised, because the players had too much freedom and did not have the same physical efficiency. They had to come to training every day, after the championship to have 2-3 days off and then come to the cantonment and prepare.
Does it reproach (Lucescu no)? Well, he had to do this, he has fantastic experience. He had to think about it. I could say that players were not 100%physically. The rhythm of the Austrians put us in difficulty ”, said Victor Piţurcă at the Football Club show at Digi Sport.
The real level and expectations: it's difficult. I could not say that I have a safety in terms of the team's evolution and give us hope that we can beat any team. What was it hard to be. There was a lot of enthusiasm for the national team. Now we can win the matches with the correct tactics and the players must react to the maximum
– Victor Pițurcă, At the Football Club show
What Mircea Lucescu told at the press conference after the match with Cyprus: “We had to earn the boys earlier, I had to call them earlier”
I took the mistake, we had to have the boys earlier, I had to call them earlier. That's how we had to show in Vienna. A new life begins, a new campaign. I think more and more about the players in our championship. Everything that was extraordinary, applause, but it matters what is now and what is coming.
I had a serious discussion about their program. To think about national, not just clubs. To complete their program to think about the national
–Mircea Lucescuat the press conference after the victory with Cyprus score 2-0
