“I stayed 125 days at Cristi Chivu in the house” “Remissions for the first time about the Romanian coach of the moment:” Call me in the evening: “Come on, climb the plane!” “
Victor “Tetea” Hexan, years in the row of the first representative, a role he had at Mircea Lucescu's charm, makes a series of departures in front of Cristi Chivu, The fresh coach installed at Inter Milano. Two decades ago, Hexan was the “healer”-the wonderful one who was calling during Ajax Amsterdam, when he was considered an ascent star.
An unmistakable figure in the early 2000s, Victor Hexan tells in an interview with the Gazeta of Sports with the beginnings of his relationship with Cristi Chivu, expressing his belief that the Romanian adventure will be a memorable one.
“Tetea” Hexan, reverence in front of Cristi Chivu: “involvement, dedication, experience!”
“Chivu will be a top as a coach, I am definitely convinced. When you are devoted … do you realize what coaches he had? Information is important today, if you have who to learn.
It is not possible, expensive, if you are not dedicated! Lord I forgive my mother, he had a word: “than with the stupid win, better with the smart at loss!”. He was telling me: «With the fool only once you win, by chance. But with the smart you can lose once, then 20 times you win! ». In life it is, the dear, when you do things dedicated, like the world.
And Chivu is part of these people: involvement, dedication, experience. It also has the need for experience as a trainer at strong games. But everyone goes through this, ”hexan said in the recently worn dialogue with GSP reporters.
Chivu was “subscribed” to Victor Hexan: “It was a year in which I stayed 125 days in the house”
During the interview, the charismatic Victor Hexan recalled the period when the young Cristi Chivu “conveys” him in Amsterdam to administer one of his famous therapeutic massages:
– Let me tell you I say with Cristi Chivu …
– He was captain at Ajax, he called me at Asterdam. Due to those big muscles he had, he loaded them with toxins after that special effort. Do you realize … to leave a child, how was it in Craiova, and reach the Netherlands? Do you realize what pace was in preparation? Those workouts were tougher than a football match, my dear! It was a year in which I stayed 125 days in Chivu in the house!
– So much?
– He often made contracts. In the evening, at 22:00, he called me and said, “Tete, climb the plane, that my bulldog bit me!” This meant that the femoral biceps were struggling. The fiber, when it is loaded with toxins, becomes rigid. If until the next training you do not do something to become elastic again … During the training you can run 10 kilometers, that they are cooked. But at the game, you force and break the fiber! Imagine …
– That's right.
– I had a plane at 06:00 in the morning to Munich, we changed at 08:30 to Amsterdam, and at 11:00 I was already massaging Chivu. Imagine what financial effort I was doing. Because then he was visa, he was going to pray to all the embassies …
– It wasn't so easy to get out of the country …
– At that time, from Cluj to Munich there were only 3-4 people on the plane, and the ticket was $ 1,000. It is not a special amount, but then it meant a tenth of an apartment in Cluj! With $ 10,000, you bought 100% apartment in Cluj! Chivu said: “After the house entered, seven people came in: Maseur, doctor, psychologist, cook, singer, housekeeper and man!” They got up at 08:00, I woke up, the table was ready. Then I did stretching at both, because he was coming home at Chivu and I was doing a little massage, I warmed them. They were at training and I asked them, “What do you want to eat?” I was going and buying. They said I put them a lot, but they never left something on the plate.
– You were like a parent, literally.
– They knew that I feel and understand them when they are tired, when they are troubled after a lost match. There are important moments for a footballer, he has some terrible pressing, he thinks they were wrong, that maybe their fault has been empty. And I said to them: «Boys, football is such a beautiful sport … At three days, it gives you the opportunity to be the best. Come on, it's passed, he would eat hexan, let's start again for the next match ».
I walked to all the footballers … I went to Pancu, at Cătălin Munteanu, at Alin Stoica, against, Chivu, Lobonț, Viorel Moldovan. As they were injured, they called me! As well as Neluțu Sabău: “Tetea, how can you help me?” I have a subtitle in the book: “Seven people in one,” Cristi Chivu told me.
– Victor Hexan
