“It will definitely referee in the Champions League” “The new chief of CCA knows who will follow Istvan Kovacs in the new European season

Istvan Kovacs arbitrated the hottest matches in the Champions League, received the Champions League final, was at the European Championship, then at the World Club Championship. Kyros Vassaras is convinced that we will see him on the ground and at the US World Cup, Mexico and Canada.
Including Ovidiu Hațegan, the new LAR Analyst of FRF talks superlatively about his colleague and his performances from 2024-2025.

“Fantastic, sensational. Romania should be proud! A Romanian referee has arbitrated the Champions League final. It's like a team from Romania has played the Champions League.”says Hațegan.
VIDEO. Ovidiu Hațegan: “Radu Petrescu is a certainty!”
“It must be congratulated and supported. Because what he has done will not repeat very soon in Romania. Although we have hope, because they are young arbitrators who represent our future,” said the Aradian referee about Kovacs.
He is convinced that “Horațiu Fennic and Marian Barbu have the optimal age to follow in Istvan's footsteps”, but he provides for a good future in the Champions League groups.
“Radu Petrescu is a certainty! It will certainly arbitrate in the Champions League this season, a stage stage, so the work that the commission is to be praised!”Hațegan said in an interview with the Grădiștei Gorge, attended by a team of the Sports Gazette.

Radu Petrescu
Petrescu, six matches in the Champions League groups!
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December 11, 2024 |
Benfica – Bologna 0-0 |
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November 26, 2024 |
Manchester City – Feyernoord 3-3 |
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October 2, 2024 |
Aston Villa – Bayern Munich 1-0 |
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October 24, 2023 |
Lens – PSV 1-1 |
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September 19, 2023 |
Barcelona – Royal Antwerp 5-0 |
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November 1, 2022 |
Viktoria Plzen – Barcelona 2-4 |
15 matchesHe received Radu Petrescu in the Europa League over the last eight years. In the previous season he was delegated by UEFA to Manchester United – PAOK (2-0) and Olympiakos – Qarabaq (3-0)
Radu Petrescu was operated on brain in 2017
Radu Petrescu has gone through moments. A headache was pushed on the “central” in Bucharest to go to a consultation, where a tumor was discovered on the small brain.
“I went to a check, with the thought of finding out what and how. I was done a tomography in Bagdasar, at the hospital. I knew him as much as the doctor. When it appeared with the result of the analyzes I realized after his face that he was crazy“, Recalls the” central “.
“We asked me” Are we men? “” Yes, I don't want to hide. “” Okay, stay down. You have a tumor on the small brain. “He had taken me from the pot. I had come to the hospital, believing that I recommend a Nurofen and told me I had a tumor on the brain!”, Petrescu revealed.
Fortunately, the tumor was not cancerous. “One week after the operation I learned that it was benign.”





