Florin Cheran, about the culinary preferences of coach Mircea Lucescu

Florin Cheran, 78 years old, the former Dinamo great defender in the 1970s, is one of the football people very close to Mircea Lucescu. Not yesterday, today, but for many years. Without a parade of this friendship for more than half a century, “Vava” Cheran told us less known details of Il Luce. And it was analyzed on Mister Dinu, the celebration of today, 77 years old.

The comrade of Mircea Lucescu, but also of Cornel Dinu, the Titans of Dynamo football, Cheran brought to the surface memories of soul.

Florin Cheran, amuses with your friend Mircea Lucescu: “Don't leave your bones on the ground”

“The first time I think we met in 1959. He was a junior, I was still in children, he was two years older. I was at” dwarves “, as it is still said. He was somewhere in the Banat area, some children's camps, where the future players were perfected with what I had at hand.

We were used to the maidan, if you had the ball you were the happiest. We did not know each other personally, but we knew our sight. At Dinamo we met later. Dinamo had recruited him through Traian Ionescu.

I struck me seriously at him. He never let things happen at random, sports and family life. That's where he got to where he arrived and make an extraordinary performance.

Mircea was and is an ambitious. I still make banks when we meet, “Don't be left!” He doesn't want to. “As much as I can, I can,” he tells me. (Laughs) Well, don't leave your bones on the field, “Cheran said in an interview for the Sports Gazette.

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The culinary pleasures of Mircea Lucescu: “Taccănițe, bean yacht, bumps in vines”

Like a joke, and Nea Mircea Lucescu is a man like us all! He likes traditional dishes.

“We have a place where we see ourselves from time to time. It is very eager to eat Romanian. We (more) we see from time to time, I have rarely come because we had health problems. But he and our close friends make their presence. (Laughs) he gives them all, to eat there.

(What do you like to serve?) Sticks, beans, beans in vines. The dishes we all consumed, you can't forget. Anyway, he can eat worried, he has always been calculated and bought, since I know him, “Cheran reacted.

Mircea Lucescu and Florin Cheran, meeting a few years ago on the stadium in Stefan cel Mare, where they wrote history

Mircea Lucescu, outside the field: “It had very good brakes, it was at” serious “”

“Have you ever seen him spit?”, The former great dynamovist defender was questioned.

“In a football team there are groups and groups. He was” serious “. He had very good brakes, he did not go beyond the limits. He was very young. He was not outside the group. Even though there are some critics,” Aaa, he did not come with us, “he imposed respect through his behavior. He did not refuse to go, he was often present.

We were still crazy, with Cornel Dinu, we were breaking the barriers. A word is said: “Who is a man at night, be the day too!” We could be this, to be people, footballers, and at night, and the day, “said Cheran.

He had this thing on the bench. Shout to everyone to scream at the players! I scream, Vava, you scream at them. I didn't really like it. He sent me behind the gate, to shout at them, to those in the defense area. I didn't like it. Otherwise, I never had anything to reproach. In 6 years as his second. I have contradictory discussions I had but not reproaches
Vava Cheran, former dynamovist glory

Mircea Lucescu, player: “He was concerned about tactics, showed us after training what he saw in English football”

“How did so many strong characters resist in a team?”, Cheran was questioned, Dinamo having a redoubtable formation in the “70s. Outside Lucescu, Dinu, Cheran, there were brothers Ion and Radu Nunweiller, Dudu Georgescu, Dumitrache,” Coco “Deleanu, Stoenescu, Hajdu, Ion Marin, Alexandru Sătmă.

“It is true that it is difficult for the coach to master heavy characters. The performance is one, and everyone has to dedicate himself to the goal. It does not mean that if a player is more valuable, he is allowed to do anything. There must be a balance.

Sincerity. If in a relationship like this there is no sincerity, you do nothing. Especially since you have a driving community. Mircea has been concerned about the football game tactics since he was a player. I was staying after workouts and making extra. An extra hour.

The coach was coming out and he was sending us home, because we stayed too much. He worked in addition, made us exercise things that did not have the courage to tell the coach. The technicians did only physically and technically, simple things, the balls thrown at the edge, centering in front of the gate, the tops on crossing … Passes in three with exchange of places. A little tactical.

It was a man mark in man in the half of the field or all over the land. He saw the envelopes in English football and repeated them, with me, by Radu Nunweiller. Keep in mind that at a match with Steaua he made the difference just what we did in training. Mircea could not give the coach's lessons then, especially since the coaches did not have informative materials. Lucescu was attentive. It's the first in Romania to try the game automatisms, “Cheran said.

I woke up one day that Mircea tells me that we no longer have a goalkeeper. “Well. You take care of, take your tapes, inform yourself. You take care!” I mean! I had no idea what and how to do, but I started work. That's how the Star appeared, Prunea, Tene … I took these boys in front. I went with them to the end
Vava Cheran, former dynamovist glory

The difference between Mircea Lucescu and Cornel Dinu: “It was a rivalry between them”

A sensitive subject remains the relationship of Mircea Lucescu with Cornel Dinu. Two legends of dynamovist and Romanian football, with strong personalities, not always on the same wavelength. One was born on July 29, Mircea Lucescu, the other, Cornel Dinu, celebrates the 77th birthday today.

“It was a rivalry between them. You know very well. At the national team, they shared their captain's banner. From there he left.

Mircea was more weighted, Cornel was different. They did not make reproaches in the locker room, that's never. (Did one try to change the other?) No. Not. In heavy matches there was collaboration, it was not so big hatred to put his mark on the team's game, otherwise it was a disaster.

I cannot say that I am attached more than one or the other. I worked with both of them, as a second. Two perfect professionals.

Dinu was not allowed to do his job to the end, as happened to Czechoslovakia, when it happened. The lot he did inherited others in the national team and others enjoyed successes. That's the life! ”, Said Cheran.

I was making selections with Mircea, from the boxes gathered, with the best defense in Europe, with the strongest attack … The boys, the players, they were bored, you know what age is. “Repeat, have a skill, automatisms, then I leave you,” he told them. Mircea Lucescu was inventor
Vava Cheran, former dynamovist glory

Why Florin Cheran did not follow Mircea Lucescu abroad: “Some took advantage of it, and I was upset”

Florin Cheran did not follow Mircea Lucescu and abroad. Neither in Italy, nor in Turkey, nor in Ukraine. Explained why.

I didn't want to go abroad. I talked to him, I knew he had some problems with some Romanians abroad, some of them took advantage of it through Italy, I did not want to ruin a friendship. I was upset by the attitude of some. They took advantage of him, who is an extraordinary man. Mircea has always jumped to help her colleagues. I'm talking about people from the football world, but I don't want to give details. He gave them a nose … You give Ivan's nose, he climbed the couch!

You can't say in this career if it could have been more or less. I think it was exactly what it was supposed to be. And he got what he wanted. I don't know if he was a foreigner could get more. Grace, birth endowment, not nationality matters. He had perseverance and the desire to win, in the good sense of the word. He was putting his hand on everything that was new. He has always been very concerned about others, concern for improvement.

I do not see a coach to step on his footsteps exactly. It's hard to realize what he could. He had this thing from God to innovate in football, “concluded Cheran.

Mircea Lucescu had an offer to stay abroad in France. He was wanted in Nîmes with Pârcălab and Florică Voinea. It was a shame that the Romanian players did not have the opportunity to play in the powerful championships
Vava Cheran, former dynamovist glory

I wish him to qualify the national team at the World Cup, I know this is his biggest desire. Be healthy, the rest knows what to do
Vava Cheran, former dynamovist glory