Article by Remus Dinu – published Monday, July 28, 2025, 22:21 / Updated Monday, July 28, 2025 22:24
- Legend of the club, “Veteran” Ion Pârcălab, 83 years old, was crying, in an exclusive GSP interview, that he could not reach the previous “home” match – as he used to do it almost without exception – on the grounds that the representatives of the club would have changed the way of distributing the invitations allocated to the former players.
- GSP has requested a point of view to the club, which arrived this afternoon. Dinamo puts the situation experienced by Pârcălab on account of an misunderstanding, ensuring that the situation will be solved starting with the next match. All the details and the full reaction, in the rows below.
Failed from the matches played by Dinamo on their own ground, the former great footballer of the “dogs” of the 1960s, Ion Pârcălab, quadruple champion with the red -white, complains that Dinamo would be implemented starting this season a new policy in the “Lodge of Legends” – or the “area of the legends” – the corner of the “
“The arrow of the carpons”, the nickname that the former great striker has acquired more than five decades ago, says that, starting from the match with FC Botosani on July 21, the first “home” in the current season, concluded 0-0, The club no longer granted additional tickets to those who needed a companion, as is the case of Ion Pârcălab, who was old.
Ion Pârcălab / PHOTO: GSP
Thus, the octogenarian had to stay home, Being unable to reach and leave the stadium alone, especially at a late hour – the match ended around 11:30 pm.
Ion Pârcălab reveals: “The club made the decision not to give only one invitation, that it makes savings”
Last days, when the Sports Gazette conducted an interview “up to date” with Pârcălab, the former great dynamovist footballer could not hide his disappointment, telling the grief that lived before the match with FC Botosani:
“I was not in a match, because I was a bit disappointed or upset … They gave us invitations for legends to all the matches, but the club made a decision not to give only one invitation to make savings.
They gave one instead of two, because I was coming with someone, I didn't come alone there. I repeat, each person received two so far. I was walking either with the boy or someone else … because it's hard for me at night when I get out of there. I had no more to get home with, well what do I do?!
Are we doing savings like that? If I give invitations at 10-15, let's say, and there were 30 guests … Do you make a 15 invitations economy? The stadium was empty …
Anyway, we didn't take anyone's places! And we have never been in someone's places.
Each time they play on the “arch”, we go to the administrator of the complex, Mr. Popa (No Radu Popa, director of the National Sports Complex Arc de Triomphe)which organizes for legends a meal, that it is a nation with Lupescu. We gather there, there is a table with everything, coffee, everything you need. We are not in anyone's place. So I didn't go to the match, stayed and watched the TV, ”said Pârcălab, exclusively for gsp.ro.
Club's reaction: “There may have been a misunderstanding or error in the process of allocating the invitations”
The newspaper contacted Andrei Nicolescu during the day, the reaction coming in the form of a statement issued through the club's communication department.
“We are honest for the unpleasant situation after which Mr. Pârcălab was not present at the match with FC Botosani.
Regarding the aspects mentioned in the statement, we would like to specify that There is no official decision by which the club's legends are strictly limited to a single invitation. On the contrary, Dinamo still wants to have the former glories with each match.
It is possible that, in a punctual situation, there may have been a misunderstanding or error in the process of allocating the invitations. Especially in the case of personal situations, such as the justified need to be accompanied, the club deals with maximum opening any request.
The club has a respect for the dynamovist legends and we want to ensure that the club's doors remain open to all those who have been part of Dinamo's history, ”the club said.
Andrei Nicolescu completed in dialogue with the GSP reporter: “Mr. Pârcălab was always treated with much respect! I think it was a misunderstanding”.
What is the project Loja Legends?
The project by which the club legends are granted tickets to home matches debuted in December 2023 And it was unanimously appreciated among the former players, but also by the supporters, delighted to observe that the representative people in the history of the team are given due respect.
Thus, on the “Arc de Triomphe” and on the few occasions when Dinamo evolved on the National Arena, with weight names from the club's heritage, representing different periods and generations, could be seen side by side, benefiting from VIP places and a traditional protocol.
Last season, Ion Pârcălab attended most of the matches played by Dinamo on his own ground, and the club even published images from one of the Dynamo Gloria Stadium visits
A brief interview with a dynamovist legend, Ion Pîrcălab, who was present last night in the area of legends, in the lodge '' Arc de Triomphe ''. We thank all those who responded to our invitation, but also to those who could not participate this time. We are waiting for as many gala guests as possible in future editions, because they represent the colossi on whom Dinamo 1948 built and formed its legendary history.
Published by Dinamo Bucharest on Sunday, August 27, 2023
Ever since the summer of 2023, Romeo Bănică, Dinamo's marketing director, came up with the proposal to implement an initiative meant to unite the supporters and legends of the group from Stefan cel Mare.
The project has really taken root under the baton of Ionuț Lupescu, the honorary president of CS Dinamo. Together with CSN Arc de Triomphe, Lupescu gathered huge names in the history of “dogs” at the same table. Specifically, in the same lodge.
During the last and a half season, names such as Gică Mihali, Ionuț Lupescu, Ionel Augustin, Mircea Lucescu, Dorin Mateuț, Ionel Dănciulescu, Ion Pârcălab, Costel Orac, Lică Movilă and Marin Dragnea, they met periodically to follow the “dogs” parties together.
What does Ion Pârcălab mean for Dinamo and Romanian football:
- Champion of Romania with FC Dinamo Bucharest (4): 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
- Romanian Cup with FC Dinamo Bucharest (2): 1964, 1968
- France vice -champion with Olympique Nîmes (1): 1972
- In Liga I: 232 games / 66 goals
- In League I for FC Dinamo Bucharest: 194 games / 53 goals
- In Ligue I (France 1): 83 games / 20 goals
- In European Cups: 20 games / 5 goals
- In the national team: 38 games / 5 goals (debut: 08.10.1961 / Romania – Turkey 4-0)
