“They are wide, dead, finished!” »Dialogue between Pancu and Lucescu, after eliminating from Euro U21
Daniel Pancu (47 years old) was suspended at the two matches of Romania at Euro U21, but with Slovakia he will return on the bench. In a dialogue with Mircea Lucescu, he complained about the desire of the players to “break” the grass and highlight at a key moment for European football.
After 0-1 with Italy and 1-2 with Spain, Daniel Pancu and the national youth team of Romania are preparing to get out of the stage. The players hope to do it with their heads up and win the match with Slovakia, the next for “tricolors” in Bratislava.
Dialogue between Pancu and Lucescu, after the failure with Spain U21 to the European Youth
Mircea Lucescu and Daniel Pancu saw the match with Spain together. And the next day, the two had a brief discussion about what happened at the euro.
“Pancone, the last impression matters all the time! It doesn't matter what I did with Italy. Tell the players! Well, the last impression !! To give everything on the field with Slovakia, as they did with Spain and we will win”Lucescu told the coach from “Youth”.
“What to do more, what to do?!”
Pancu listened to his idol, but drew a painful conclusion. “You haven't seen, Mircea? They are wide, dead, finished! I only made two maximum intensity workouts and they were completed. They couldn't do anything, what to do more, what to do?!”Pancu reacted.
Lucescu laughing: “This is with the resistant I lived the other days”. Referring to the fact that including the players at the Great National were tired after the training sessions.
This is a dangerous age for the Romanian footballer. There are cases where the Romanian player is better at 20 years than at 22. I do not know exactly where this problem comes from. I would put it on account of the mentality and education. There are players who want very much and have the potential to reach a much higher level, but there are some who enter into a stagnation. There are some who have it in the blood, suffer, work, want to get on. And there are others who do not!
– Daniel Pancu, selector Romania U21
It also criticized after the match with Italy they were suffocating
Daniel Pancu had a harsh speech and after the failure of the European debut, with Italy. When he criticized his players not to resist the effort and pressure.
“Several players seemed to suffocate! And I saw Borza several times, but I could not change. When I see the players with their hands on the knees in the first half, and in the end many cramps … I do not know, they are not my players, they are the players of the national team, but the care for restoring … negligent!”Pancu said.
Then he tuned even harder: “Those medicines that the doctor leaves on the table … half of them remain! And we get to have cramps through the 80th minute! And there were few players without minutes. It was a Umit Akdag without minutes, but he trains in another environment. We should not have problems like this. “
Daniel Pancu: “It was an atmosphere of funeral in the locker room. I, I am proud!”
The complete program of the matches in the “tricolor” group:
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Wednesday, June 11: Italy-Romania 1-0
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Saturday, June 14: Spain-Romania 2-1
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Tuesday, June 17: Romania – Slovakia (Bratislava, 22:00)
